We had a blast at our monthly Speaker Social on Saturday! Ten participants and teams presented games made during the previous weekend’s Mother, May I? jam to a packed house of 70 members and friends of Dames Making Games!

• Alex Bethke and his mom, Kathryn Grimbly, showed off a polished version of their beautiful and atmospheric Brother Nature, a puzzler designed for the iPad.
• Maggie McLean, Christine Brual, and Erica Gregory (first timer!) demoed the delightful Hibiki’s Dokidoki Room Cleaning Day, a time-based chore sim.
• Hannah Epstein had the crowd in tears with Doubt Cloud, a game about struggling with the meaninglessness of game development.
• Leisha-Marie Riddel, Yuliya Boublikova, and Alex Wong’s Mean Cuisine is an adorable cooperative game about racing around a kitchen to put together orders for diner customers.
• Fans of Katie Foster’s The Disappearance of Emily Butler were in for a treat. She talked about ongoing development of her game about Newfoundland, and demoed a sketch of the game’s second level.
• Soha El-Sabaawi (another first-timer!) & Beth Maher presented Sprout, a unique interactive game about a tiny magical family living in old photographs.
• Special guest Samantha Allen showed off Alpaca Run, an indie sensation developed with Joseph Culp, Guy Conn, and Cameron Kunzelman. She wrote and performed the music, a catchy They Might Be Giants-esque tune integral to the gameplay.
• Budd Royce Lam demoed Mother, May I?, a very creepy 3D platformer created with Tiffany Low Foon and Emma Burkeitt.
• Cecily Carver showed us The Playground her Rogue-like (-like?) about a toddler’s playground escape (watch out for those Smart Bullies!).
• Damian Sommer wowed everyone with the simple genius of his file-system-based dungeon crawler, Folder Quest.