By Alec Meer on July 10th, 2012 at 5:00 pm.
Rezzed had many highlights, and it’s faintly possible that insane people believe watching me try to construct a little man out of chewing gum and my own spittle was one of them. This was just one of the many strange and possibly dangerous tasks in the live trial by that was the 5th International Indie Mudwrestling Championships, an on-stage panel show hosted with golden-voiced aplomb by Mr John Walker. Adam Smith and I headed up a team respectively, with ample support from indie devs Andrew J Smith of Spilt Milk and Dave Johnston of Smudged Cat. Surprisingly, at no juncture were we booed off stage. We had a live pun thread, Adam and I almost exploded, we listened to the Donkey Kong rap and John kept forgetting that RPS only covers PC games.
Watch our mouths move and words come out of them, sometimes followed by the reassuring sound of laughter, below.
Drinking foul machine coffee in an antechamber behind the conference room just before this might just have been the most nervous moment of my life. Only for that title to be snatched away mere hours later when I found myself presenting the results of a chaotic one-hour mass gamejam to an even bigger crowd…
10/07/2012 at 17:03 pakoito says:
Not probably the best place to put it, but one of your ex n-ths has posted a diary/article about his experience with Dota 2: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-07-10-the-dota-2-experience-part-one
10/07/2012 at 17:04 pakoito says:
I know we generally avoid talking about little girl Quinns, but it’s actually helpful and well written.
10/07/2012 at 17:45 misterT0AST says:
We avoid talking about Quinns?!? I, personally, am just careful not to speak his name in vain.
10/07/2012 at 18:34 Malawi Frontier Guard says:
Have I mentioned DotA today?
10/07/2012 at 17:06 Dances to Podcasts says:
I can’t watch at work, but sortof like a Have I Got Games For You or Mock The Games? I can see some potential there…
10/07/2012 at 18:37 Cinnamon says:
I’m sorry I haven’t a PC game.
10/07/2012 at 17:16 bglamb says:
I was the last questioner. Sorry to throw such a curve ball.
I had that one prepped and ready to fire off at Molyneux, but I never got a chance to ask it. It seemed a shame to let it go to waste.
I was in the Ghost Recon session too and nobody wanted to ask anything, so I asked them what the scariest dream they ever had was. They didn’t appreciate it and I felt bad. :-(
It was lovely to meet you all though!
10/07/2012 at 17:20 Adam Smith says:
Curveballs are good! I don’t think we’d have known it was over unless we all felt a deep sense of regret.
11/07/2012 at 20:53 Xerian says:
I felt a sudden pain in my chest when Kieron was mentioned – And then realised that I was remembering when my heart was torn out… For the second time. L(ive).I.P Kieron & Quinns..
Oh and good on you guys! I utterly loved the pun bit, and damn Adam, you’ve become more handsome since I last saw a picture of ya’! And god oh god, I really do hope you could turn Rezzed into an annual event much like PAX and such, cause despite not actually being there (If I could walk from Denmark to Brighton I would’ve come though!) the coverage was just hillarious and the bits I’ve read and seen thus far is really just all-around excellent.
10/07/2012 at 17:30 JohnArr says:
It was suprising to find out how much taller Alec’s voice is than the rest of him.
10/07/2012 at 17:30 Jason Moyer says:
The DRM In ZooKeeper 2012 Is Unbearable
10/07/2012 at 17:52 sinister agent says:
Come on, we’ve all just sat through live puns, we don’t need this. Give it a Rezzed.
10/07/2012 at 17:53 GamerOS says:
No need to pun-ish us for having fun.
10/07/2012 at 18:02 MadJax says:
Take it this threads not a Keeper then
10/07/2012 at 20:35 felisc says:
now you’re just flamin,go away
10/07/2012 at 18:02 Stellar Duck says:
The odds of it working is like winning in a giraffle.
10/07/2012 at 18:49 alice says:
These pun threads are just bats! They are the bee’s knees. I would be lion if I said I do not love them.
10/07/2012 at 23:20 Dances to Podcasts says:
I go ape for them. They bring out the beast in me.
10/07/2012 at 17:42 Hirmetrium says:
ITS NOTHING WITHOUT JIM.
Just kidding.
10/07/2012 at 17:50 sinister agent says:
Needs more rum.
10/07/2012 at 18:55 McDan says:
Needs more pun.
I am really annoyed I couldn’t make it now, that live pun thread would have been great. Also annoyed I have to wait until I come back from spiderman, “sigh” White people problems.
10/07/2012 at 17:54 Eddy9000 says:
For a second I thought I’d missed an opportunity to see 90′s indie band Quasi playing live at rezzed, never do this to me again RPS!
10/07/2012 at 18:05 MadJax says:
Damn my voice sounds shit on camera :/ I’m the guy who didn’t get a hug :P
10/07/2012 at 18:07 bglamb says:
You missed out. I’d put it in my top 7 most enjoyable hugs.
10/07/2012 at 20:01 MadJax says:
Now I’m really gutted. Though the Introversion guys were a tad suprised when I hugged em ;)
10/07/2012 at 18:10 CaBBagE says:
After the lemonade and liver salts round I was hoping there would be a ‘how many cream crackers can you eat without taking a drink’ one… ;o) Good quiz!
10/07/2012 at 18:26 Soon says:
You need an intros round!
10/07/2012 at 18:27 HexagonalBolts says:
It’s really interesting watching videos of you guys, to see what the person behind the articles is like. It’d be great to see more, perhaps like the podcasts?
10/07/2012 at 18:33 sinister agent says:
Interactive video posts. Press 4 now to see a damn smith’s disappointment.
10/07/2012 at 18:35 fr0y0 says:
I am SO pissed no one got that Deus Ex quote.
10/07/2012 at 19:00 Adam Smith says:
If I hadn’t been so pissed the night before, I reckon I might have done.
10/07/2012 at 20:03 MadJax says:
I’m suprised you lasted as long as you did with a gobful of salts and lemonade, was a tad scared of being soaked :P
Although the volume in the front row did nothing for hangovers :P
10/07/2012 at 21:12 Petethegoat says:
I stumbled in and nearly missed the start because of the night before too.
Meat Circus, if you read this, thanks for the drinks and for the floor.
10/07/2012 at 18:38 Hodge says:
I’m sorely disappointed that you didn’t all jump onto the table and break out into a boy band routine, wot with those headset mics.
14/07/2012 at 00:46 Josh W says:
Or a live re-inactment of the donkey kong rap, they had the words after all…
10/07/2012 at 18:54 wodin says:
Adam is damn cool looking…
from up North..explains it.
10/07/2012 at 18:58 wodin says:
Do popacap in your arse games cause violence
10/07/2012 at 19:23 BurningPet says:
Damn, i wish i was british. i will even be willing to put up with all that queen stuff if that means being in events like this in person
10/07/2012 at 19:43 woodsey says:
I find if I leave a bowl of water out by the front door she doesn’t bother me too much.
10/07/2012 at 19:32 lowprices says:
So no mud wrestling then. See, this is why I didn’t buy a ticket to Rezzed and instead spent my Saturday getting trollied on homemade beer in Manchester.
10/07/2012 at 19:39 niuqqt says:
http://bit.ly/4Owjag
10/07/2012 at 19:43 The Hammer says:
Surely, “Anyone who commits violence against another human being should bejailed”?
?????
10/07/2012 at 22:40 lynn_kraken says:
I should have claimed that hug. Imagine the whole room rushing on stage to claim theirs… Truth is, Mr Meer, you had the audience fooled with that quiet composure of yours.
11/07/2012 at 00:06 JakeDust says:
Gosh, I wanna marry Adam. Am I the only one?
11/07/2012 at 13:06 wodin says:
no your not…see my comment further up…he is a cool looking lad,,,turns out he is a North west lad like myself…doesn’t surprise me..
11/07/2012 at 07:00 Adventurous Putty says:
Please, for the love of all things free and brave, host something in New York!
11/07/2012 at 09:07 Gnoupi says:
Jim’s currently being hunted.
11/07/2012 at 09:52 OfMiceAndMods says:
I’m still not too sure why I was the biggest RPS fan xD
11/07/2012 at 10:15 Muzman says:
Although amusing, if you think this buys you like 6 months without a podcast or something YOU’RE WRONG.
11/07/2012 at 13:07 wodin says:
Some of it was great viewing, some a little uncomfortable…still round of applause…
11/07/2012 at 14:15 Milos says:
On my tiny screen Adam reminded me incredibly of Mickey Rourke in Barfly. I don’t even know why, I didn’t see it since I was like 11.
11/07/2012 at 20:23 Anym says:
Any chance to get this as an MP3?
15/07/2012 at 13:50 sonofsanta says:
That was lovely. I’d humbly submit Grievous Bejewelled Harm for your punnage.
Also: 3/5ths? When did Nathan get made official? Surely this was post-worthy news!
16/07/2012 at 12:34 Xerian says:
Adam! My loins are throbbing for your attention!…
Um..
So yeah, are there any plans for rezzed being an annual kind of event? Or atleast repeated once more? It was nothing short of brilliant, and you got some biiiig names and players despite the size, which is awesome.