They’re back for more fun and gameshows.
“Consisting of representatives from past and current MAGFest regulars including the Virtual Fools, Low Score Podcast, and These Guy Are Sick video game improv troupe, for over a decade members of Content Productions have been entertaining MAGFest attendees. Expect to find Content Productions in a rousing rendition of “The Cost is Correct,” the Next Great Installment of Roll 4 MAGFest, Game Jams, and more!”
Wonderfully detail oriented.
“8-bit Music Theory is a YouTuber who analyzes the music of video games, entertaining both music nerds and video game nerds with interesting analyses on some of the most iconic tunes of the last 40 years. He’s not afraid to get into the nitty-gritty, note-by-note details of what makes this music so special to so many people, offering a mixture of accessibility and a level insight that appeals to both layman and the academic alike.”
He’s a funny guy and we like having him around.
“Freddie Wong is an online video pioneer, who has created award-winning series and shorts on the YouTube platform with his channel, RocketJump.
Named as one of Hollywood’s brightest stars on Forbes magazine’s 2015 “30 under 30” list, his viral videos have spread across the global web making garnering over 1 billion views since the channel’s inception in April 2010.”
We found no glitch with this guy.
“Allan Cecil (dwangoAC) is the President of the North Bay Linux Users’ Group. He acts as an ambassador for TASVideos.org, a website devoted to using emulators to complete video games as quickly as the hardware allows. He streams at Twitch.tv/dwangoAC and participates in Games Done Quick charity speedrunning marathons using TASBot to entertain viewers with never-before-seen glitches in games. By day, he is a senior engineer at Ciena Corporation working on OpenStack NFV orchestration and Linux packet performance optimization testing.”
The one and only!
“Alexander Brandon has been a composer for games since 1994, with such hits as Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Deus Ex under his belt. He is also a voice actor having voiced characters in Skyrim, DC Universe Online and Hearthstone. As an audio director he has worked on projects many and varied including Job Simulator, Wasteland 2, Aven Colony and Torment: Tides of Numenera. He is currently at work on Wasteland 3 by inXile Entertainment and System Shock 3 by Otherside Entertainment. Alex continues to operate Funky Rustic, an independent audio production house out of Georgetown, Texas.”
We hit continue.
“Continue? is a weekly comedy web show where Paul, Nick, and Josh play a random old school video game for 30 minutes. There is one question they are trying to answer - do they stop playing or continue?”
What a cool dude.
“Brent Black, also known as “Brentalfloss,” is best known as the creator of the “With Lyrics” YouTube series, where he adds satirical lyrics to classic video game tunes. Since 2008, he has expanded his base of subscribers to over 415,000, released three major albums hitting the top ten on the iTunes comedy and Billboard comedy charts, and he has performed all over North America and Europe. He composed the score for indie game “Default Dan,” co-created the digital party game “Use Your Words,” and co-hosts the “Trends Like These” news podcast on the Maximum Fun network.
photo credit to Jessica Garcia”
Composer for the first real-time strategy game
“Frank Klepacki is a world renown video game composer and musician, most famous for his Command & Conquer soundtracks. His song “Hell March” is regarded as one of the top video game themes of all time. The Tiberian Sons are no strangers to MAGFest, specializing in performing their brutally impressive signature arrangements of various video game themes. Frank Klepacki has invited them to join forces in order to bring you for the very first time in history: The music of Command & Conquer LIVE!”
Luckily, we didn’t have to make a deal with the devil to get this guest!
“Kristofer Maddigan is a percussionist, drummer, BAFTA award winning and Juno nominated composer based in Toronto, Canada. Principal percussionist of the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra (of which he has been a member since 2010), Kris also performs regularly with a wide range of groups including The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, The National Arts Center Orchestra, The Hannaford Street Silver Band, The Esprit Orchestra, The Toronto Concert Orchestra, The Thunder-Bay Symphony, A Fantastica Batteria, and the Devah Quartet. Kris also works with numerous jazz, theatre and new music groups around the city.
Kris received his Artist’s Diploma in percussion from the prestigious Glenn Gould School at the Royal Conservatory of Music in 2009, where he studied with Toronto Symphony members John Rudolph and David Kent. Kris has also pursued private study with such prestigious artists as Jim Blackley, Terry Clarke, as well as many others both in Canada and Internationally.
As a composer, Kris contributed music for the ‘My Virtual Dream’ project which premiered at Toronto’s Nuit Blanche in 2013, and composed the soundtrack for the award winning video game ‘Cuphead‘, released to widespread acclaim on X-Box One, Windows 10 and Steam in 2017.
In the spring of 2018 Kris was honoured to receive the Toronto Musicians’ Association ‘Musician of the Year’ award.”
So long, King Donut. You're old news now, buddy.
“Not much is known about this mostly-young team of upstart space pilots, but they’ve been seen flying M-shaped ships around the A-Flat System. Are they fighting for good, or renegade nuisances? Rumors say they’re lead by a pilot named... Sunny McShreds?”
Oh man. We're going to have so many guests. You don't even know.
“I’ve been to MAGFest before. They definitely have guests. I even met some of them. There were autograph parties or something. It was really cool. I think the dude who scribble-composed all of that Final Fantasy music on a napkin at a diner was at MAGFest before. That’s what I heard, at least.”