LOOKING BACK: A SLIDESHOW OF VENUS PATROL & MOCATV’S HORIZON CONFERENCE

It’s been almost a week since we ran HORIZON, the alternative E3 press conference co-presented by Venus Patrol & MOCAtv, and to be honest, I think we’re all still recovering. Reaction to the conference has been more or less universally positive, and we’re super grateful both to everyone who made it happen and for all the kind words that have been coming in over the past few days from outfits like Polygon & The Verge.

That also includes photographer Brian Erzen, who documented the entire conference as it was happening, which we’re presenting here in slideshow form for those that couldn’t make it the day of. Above is the group shot or HORIZON’s presenters & participating developers that immediately followed the conference, and below the fold, a slew of other great photos of nearly everyone that took part.

Double Fine’s Greg Rice shows off Broken Age & a few of its 90,000 friends.

Capy’s Kris Piotrowski & Nathan Vella debut a longer look at their upcoming and unbelievably gorgeous procedurally generated dungeon crawler, Below.

Media Molecule’s Rex Crowle takes us on a journey to unearth the tiny details that are going into Tearaway‘s papercraft universe.

Die Gute Fabrik’s Doug Wilson and Hokra creator Ramiro Corbetta give us a progress update on their local-multiplayer collection Sportsfriends.

Honeyslug’s Ricky Haggett announces that their upcoming vector playground Hohokum will feature an original soundtrack created in conjunction with the renowned indie record label Ghostly International.

Former Unfinished Swan level designer turned indie Ben Esposito shows us new perspectives on his upcoming puzzler Kachina.

A look behind the scenes at Bay Area video production outfit AREA5‘s setup that allowed us to livestream the HORIZON event, including Polytron’s video announcement of Fez II.

Post-conference: Capy’s Nathan Vella & Kris Piotrowski.

Post-conference: Media Molecule’s Siobhan Reddy & Rex Crowle, and Game Developers Conference organizer Meggan Scavio.

Post-conference: Ramiro Corbetta, Ben Esposito, and Sarah Brin, who organized and curated HORIZON’s post-conference mixer.

Post-conference: newly announced Funomena collaborators Robin Hunicke (formerly producer of thatgamecompany’s Journey and Katamari Damacy & Noby Noby Boy creator Keita Takahashi.