This first of its sort arcade gaming festival will happen on May 19 on the IIT Madras Research park
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For these of us who grew up within the late 1990s and early Noughties, going to an arcade gaming parlour to play racing and preventing video games was a enjoyable pastime. The ring of the world, bike throttles revving, intro music to widespread video games like Smash, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter, cash being dropped into slots, and children cheering on their associates, are sounds that proceed to evoke nostalgia .
Gaming parlours of late have change into extra refined with the appearance of know-how. They typically lack the appeal of the outdated parlours, as do the video games.
While it is potential to obtain an arcade recreation off the Internet for a success of nostalgia, it is not satiated due to the dearth of an atmosphere. This is the place the Versus Festival comes into play. A day-long celebration of gaming, artwork, and anime, the festival goals at increasing the preventing recreation match tradition in India. Fighting video games are a style of video video games the place gamers instantly management characters who have interaction in hand-to-hand fight towards each other.
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Adhithya Mahesh, senior member IndianFGC, and the founder of Versus Festival says, “The fighting games community is pretty old. We’ve been playing since 2007-08. But In the last five years, we started noticing that there are a lot of sub communities popping up.”
The festival goals at offering a platform to sub-communities which have the same DNA resembling cosplayers, communities celebrating artwork, meals, and tradition of South East Asia, and anime communities. Founded and introduced by esports banner Daijoubu, the Versus Festival is being organised by artist neighborhood Sunshine House, indie music neighborhood Circle of Love, The Chennai Scene, Indian FGC (preventing recreation neighborhood) and SSB India (Super Smash Bros neighborhood).
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“We (gaming communities) conduct weekly meets and plays, and it was during these meetings that we discovered that the Tamil Nadu Government is actively trying to back these kinds of efforts. Right now, one of our biggest backers is the ESAT federation of Tamil Nadu,” he says. The Electronic Sports Authority of Tamil Nadu is an apex physique of esports that recognises gaming severely, ever for the reason that Asian Games added this as a class with video games like Dota, League of Legends and extra.
“The identity of the festival is hybrid. Many micro communities like the cosplaying, artist and the quizzing communities are coming together. For example, there is going to be a group of people who play this obscure Japanese card game and I cannot even pronounce the name.” he says, including that The Board Room, one of Chennai’s earliest boarding recreation cafés, will likely be collaborating as nicely.
While the festival locations its core concentrate on digital sports activities with preventing video games on the centre of all of it, it is additionally open for the viewers to discover area of interest pursuits which could not have been introduced on mainstream platforms earlier than.
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“When you buy a ticket for the Versus Festival, you will be able to compete in two tournaments. One is for Street Fighter 6 and the other is for Smash, and both these tournaments will be live-streamed.” he says. This version of the festival, regardless of being the primary of its sort, will see opponents from six completely different states and a couple of worldwide contributors from the West Asia and Bangladesh as nicely. The match winners will obtain money prizes up to ₹1 lakh.
Apart from this, the festival additionally encompasses a free arcade gaming zone, panel discussions, meals, artwork, and purchasing stalls. Also on the agenda are workshops for prop-making by Adithya Ashok, an anime themed artwork workshop by Derek D’Souza, and even a sushi making class which could see the festival collaborate with cooks and Japanese meals fans.
The Versus Festival will likely be held on the IIT Madras Research Park, Chennai on May 19 from 10am to 9pm. Tickets can be found on skillboxes.com at ₹763. For extra data on occasion schedule and registrations for workshops, go browsing to theversusfestival on Instagram.