{"id":40047,"date":"2025-09-03T03:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40047\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:53:08","slug":"art-gallery-of-ontario-hosting-special-canadian-game-event-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40047\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Gallery of Ontario hosting special Canadian game event this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is hosting a special event this week featuring a bunch of beloved Canadian games.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s called the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/ago.ca\/events\/video-game-arts-appreciation-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Video Game Arts Appreciation Night<\/a>\u201d and will be held on Friday, September 5 from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Organized by writer and game developer Jim Munroe in partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/gameartsinternational.network\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game Arts International Network<\/a>, the event will spotlight behind-the-scenes artwork from a slew of acclaimed Canadian games:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Balatro \u2014 Localthunk (Saskatoon)<\/li>\n<li>Goodbye Volcano High \u2014 KO_OP (Montreal) <strong>[artist will be present]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I Was a Teenage Exocolonist \u2014 Northway Games (Vancouver)<\/li>\n<li>A Little to the Left \u2014 Max Inferno (Halifax) <strong>[artist will be present]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Loser Lane \u2014 Marie LeBlanc Flanagan (Toronto) <strong>[artist will be present]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>South of Midnight \u2014 Compulsion Games (Montreal)\u00a0<strong>[artist will be present]<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tactical Breach Wizards \u2014 Suspicious Developments (Vancouver)<\/li>\n<li>Tunic \u2014 Isometricorp (Halifax)<\/li>\n<li>Venba \u2014 Visai Games (Toronto) <strong>[artist will be present]<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At 7 p.m., Munroe will lead a guided tour through the art, explaining the reasoning for each game\u2019s inclusion while asking the developers about their work.<\/p>\n<p>Video Game Arts Appreciation Night is included at no additional cost with <a href=\"https:\/\/visit.ago.ca\/56644\/57755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">$30 AGO general admission<\/a>, while Members and Annual Pass holders can enter for free.<\/p>\n<p>Image credit: Xbox\/Finji\/Visai Games<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/ago.ca\/events\/video-game-arts-appreciation-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">AGO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MobileSyrup may earn a commission from purchases made via our links, which helps fund the journalism we provide free on our website. These links do not influence our editorial content. Support us <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3J3VJYp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is hosting a special event this week featuring a bunch of beloved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[30615,30616,365,362,363,364,995,30617,366,18,117,19,17,15935,3880],"class_list":{"0":"post-40047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-ago","9":"tag-art-gallery-of-ontario","10":"tag-arts","11":"tag-arts-and-design","12":"tag-artsanddesign","13":"tag-artsdesign","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canadian-games","16":"tag-design","17":"tag-eire","18":"tag-entertainment","19":"tag-ie","20":"tag-ireland","21":"tag-toronto","22":"tag-video-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}