"These are the sort of things you see on the floor at the Portland Retro Game Expo, a yearly exhibition of video game culture and technology for vintage game collectors and dealers. Gamers are looking to relive their pasts and the pasts of others (who grew up with different systems or games), and, as with every gathering of ten or more people these days, Pokemon card collectors, hunting for the treasure their heart most desires."
"We look instead to a pink and purple booth in Hall D, where 20 or so computers sit on tables, gamers on one side poking at programs, game developers on the other, chatting, pointing out stuff, offering light guidance, occasionally looking fretful. This is the Portland Indie Game Squad's booth, PIGSquad for short, a local nonprofit that exists to offer support, education, and opportunities for local independent game developers."
The Portland Retro Game Expo combines nostalgic exhibits and contemporary indie game development in a single event. Attendees encounter vintage artifacts such as a busted Mario costume, an extremely old pinball machine, hundreds of retro consoles on CRT televisions, high-level NES Tetris matches, and collectible card hunters. A dedicated pink-and-purple booth hosts PIGSquad, a local nonprofit providing support, education, and opportunities for independent game developers. PIGSquad hosted 38 local creators demonstrating new projects on around 20 computers, highlighting how modern indie games grow from a community enabled two decades ago by open marketplaces and accessible development engines.
Read at Portland Mercury
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