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We went to PAX East! Despite there being waist-high snow everywhere in downtown Boston and Shu flying directly to the show from GDC that same week, this ended up being damn fun. Crystal Brawl got...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/pax-east-2015-indie-games-live/

MAGFest is a beast unto itself. Arcade games as far as the eye can see. An ocean of console games for almost every system in creation. Tournaments, concerts, field games, big games, weird game me...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/magfest-2015/

Last night was the first edition of the NYC Arcade, a cool new playtest night from Brian & GJ over at The Sheep’s Meow! Over 50+ indie game devs brought their projects to Microsoft’s space in...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/introducing-nyc-arcade/

WHAT! So by an amazing turn of events, our arcade version of Crystal Brawl was featured at a game event at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in DC! We were invited down to the pop-up event as ...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/smithsonian-american-art-museum-arcade-indie-arcade/

Holy crap! So not only did the Death By Audio Arcade (including Crystal Brawl Arcade) get into Maker Faire, but we won Editor’s Choice *and* Best in Class ribbons! Maker Faire is a huge weekend...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/maker-faire-2014/

Once again, we journeyed up to Boston for BFIG, the Boston Festival of Indie Games! This year they hosted the games floor in the massive indoor track a level above last year’s space. So cool to...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/bfig-boston-festival-indie-games-2014/

So lwlvl (Low Level) happened this weekend. A whirling art show, a series of concerts, an arcade game gallery – it’s kind of hard to properly describe what exactly happened, but it was defini...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/low-level-lwlvl/

Last week we brought Crystal Brawl and Nika to IndieCade East’s Show & Tell! The Grasshopper Round Table also made an appearance with an improved Don’t F**k Up. So awesome to have a relative ...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/indiecade-east-2014/

The non-digital version of Nika, the Greek war-themed board game designed by myself with beautiful art by our own Chris Hernandez, is now available on Kickstarter! Here’s a preview of the love...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/nika-available-kickstarter/

This year, a bunch of us Mercatoites participated in the Global Game Jam, the world’s biggest simultaneous game jam! The GGJ holds special significance for us since the team first came together...

https://www.studio-mercato.com/global-game-jam-2014-roundup/