MIGW's Big Games Night In
Unpack the 'Scrabble', play 'Monopoly' with your housemates or try out a heap of free ACMI online games.
Overview
Like most things this year, Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) is going to look a little different in 2020. As part of its virtual nine-day program, running from Saturday, October 3 till Sunday, October 11, it's hosting a Big Games Night In — encouraging Melburnians across the city to unpack the Scrabble, play a competitive round of Monopoly or log on to try up some free new games on the ACMI site.
These games, created by Victorian developers, have been selected by the include Innchanted (Dragonbear), Wayward Strand (Ghost Pattern) and Intergalactic Space Princess (Geeiz), as well as the popular Necrobarista (by Route 59). The latter is set in a "magical Melbourne cafe" where the dead return for one night. Look out for goon-sack robots, alchemical coffee and Ned Kelly, too.
Elsewhere on the virtual program, there's a MIGW edition of ACMI's Women and Non-Binary Gamers Club on Wednesday, October 7, and a Nordic Game Discovery Contest on Friday, October 9. You can check out the full lineup over here.
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