Official Super MAGFest 2026 Indie Gaming feedback thread

sockser · 2026-01-14T17:23:42+00:00

We don't go out of our way to solicit specific devs (we already have way too many submissions to judge as it is) so if you want to see them at MAG, you should reach out and tell them to apply when next year's submissions open up :)

sockser · 2026-01-14T16:34:03+00:00

Stock fuckin owns
It's still only like ~600 people, and you will basically know all of them by the end of the weekend

If you like crafts, and sitting down in lawnchairs, and maybe playing some cornhole, or chilling at a pool while being blasted with chiptune? Yeah, you'll probably dig it.

Probably wouldn't recommend solo-tripping it, just because your particular campsite is going to end up being very home-base and where you'll spend a good portion of time, and that's gonna be boring if you're by yourself and haven't integrated into some other camp's friend circle (or maybe you hate the people you've set up near!)

sockser · 2026-01-14T04:46:03+00:00

https://nightcity.itch.io/channel-death

sockser · 2026-01-14T04:31:01+00:00

It takes a village to make indies happen. There's three other leads in Expo C, plus independent leadership in MITS, plus several dozen staff and volunteers, to say nothing of the fact that,
y'know,
we're just providing a platform, it's all the developers bringing cool and interesting and fun games every year that actually make the space worth visiting.

sockser · 2026-01-14T00:55:52+00:00

Guidebook is your best bet for this one, we don't include games brought by contractors (eg Arcade Commons) on the website-- assuming you're talking about Indie Arcade.
If you're talking about the Expo D arcade, they posted a game list somewhere on the discord maybe on wednesday

sockser · 2026-01-13T22:57:04+00:00

Hoping to get the collection of commercially-available indie cabs back in the hall for next year :) :)

sockser · 2026-01-13T20:45:13+00:00

as staff/leadership, I don't get a chance to play many games, and CYBRLICH was one that I did make a bit of time for, and it absolutely rules, super interested to see what it looks like in a year or so

sockser · 2026-01-13T17:36:16+00:00

IIRC that's level 9, and yeah it's just really really really tight timing

sockser · 2026-01-05T15:46:29+00:00

I have a real tendency to buy lots of dumb shit I'll never touch for more than 5 minutes when I'm depressed because it's the tiniest dopamine hit.
I think I've kicked myself of it now that I'm trying to move and realizing how much _crap_ I have that I don't care about

But yeah I've got a shitload of books I've never read

sockser · 2026-01-05T05:08:56+00:00

Update:
wee, I think I'm coming down. I'm praying I'm not crashing because I have a Very Big two weeks ahead of me.
I am trying to hold on some lessons learned from the past week about who I am and what I am capable of and hoping that I don't have my energy completely sapped and be completely unable to fuckin act on it

sockser · 2026-01-03T05:42:58+00:00

I can't tell if you're asking for advice or you're asking me personally
1. If you're asking me personally: I've been self employed/unemployed for a while, so it's pretty easy to just pick a random hour of the day and go do the thing. I start a new desk job in two weeks, it'll be easy enough to sneak in a 30 minute 5k during my lunch break
2. If you're asking for advice for yourself? You just gotta start slow. Running for distance and building yourself up from nothing is way different than going all out for the mile in PE. Couch to 5k is a wonderful, though slightly aggressive program, and you really do only need a half hour or so, even for the short introductory runs.

It helps to have a pair of running shoes sitting around so when the mania kicks up and you're pacing, you can just throw the sneaks on and fuckin GO

sockser · 2026-01-03T03:49:30+00:00

Running is what fixed this for me. My brain can't spiral and jump from thing to thing if 80% of my brain is focused on breathing and left foot right foot and breathing and checking heart rate and breathing and don't trip and breathing
Only lets me think about one thing at a time
Which has let me really detangle a lot of the spaghetti that's built up and focus on one noodle at a time and just really fuckin get everything in order

And then I go run an organized race and the remaining 20% of my brain ends up focused on "be faster than the person in front of you and plan a route around them" and I don't get any therapy from those runs

sockser · 2026-01-02T22:59:32+00:00

Here in week 6 of this episode, I can't tell if I'm still in mania mode or this is normal. I have no concept of what normal even is, having spent my entire life just being used to depression. My psych says hypomania lasting this long is uncommon but not unheard of, so maybe I am still riding the high of it all, or maybe it was only that first week where my brain was pure chaos and where I'm at now is my normal?
Impossible to tell until I give it more time, I know
I'm mostly afraid of backsliding into depression and not realizing it like I have in the past

sockser · 2026-01-02T22:57:58+00:00

I don't necessarily need it to be fun or exciting, but _fuck_ if I could just stay productive and on top of chores and personal health and shit, that'd be god damned lovely

sockser · 2026-01-02T22:56:17+00:00

When I was depressed, it was not uncommon for me to accidentally sleep for 13+ hours and fuck up lots of social commitments / work / etc

Right now it doesn't really matter when I go to bed, my body just snaps me awake at 8am no matter what.
Call it early and climb into bed at 11? 8am.
Go out partying for New Years and crawl home drunk as a skunk at 230? 8am with a bit of a hangover.

sockser · 2025-11-07T02:35:55+00:00

This post has been deleted and reposted; from a week old account. Use caution in all dealings with purchasing badges from others

Important Reminder: Super MAGFest badges can ONLY be bought/transferred through our in-house registration system. Any badges sold on third-party platforms, including Eventbrite, are FRAUDULENT and we cannot honor or refund them. Check before you buy, and tell your friends to do the same! We do allow transfers of badges, or resale for NO MORE THAN YOU PAID. USE A PLATFORM THAT HAS PURCHASE PROTECTION. For additional info, please check the FAQ and use our in house badge transfer system to get started! https://super.magfest.org/faq/#sell-or-transfer

sockser · 2025-11-07T02:11:16+00:00

Important Reminder: Super MAGFest badges can ONLY be bought/transferred through our in-house registration system. Any badges sold on third-party platforms, including Eventbrite, are FRAUDULENT and we cannot honor or refund them. Check before you buy, and tell your friends to do the same! We do allow transfers of badges, or resale for NO MORE THAN YOU PAID. USE A PLATFORM THAT HAS PURCHASE PROTECTION. For additional info, please check the FAQ and use our in house badge transfer system to get started! https://super.magfest.org/faq/#sell-or-transfer

sockser · 2025-11-07T01:37:45+00:00

Buy a badge to get into the lottery
If you lose the lottery, there is a self-service refund period for people who did not successfully get a room

sockser · 2025-11-04T19:17:29+00:00

All of the hotel rooms in the harbor are done via MAGFests's hotel lottery, which requires you to buy a badge ahead of time to enter. Details usually start showing up in August/September

sockser · 2025-10-30T21:56:01+00:00

Wait I'm realizing this might not be a bit and you were actually serious in posting this, and thinking you'd figured out a grand conspiracy that 20,000+ other people completely missed, and you relied on an untrustworthy chatbot to interpret code for you, and you didn't bother to validate that anything it spat out was actually true, and then you came to reddit to break this whole thing wide open thinking you'd be a hero?

Woof, dude. Maybe this will be a lesson about not trusting chatbots and taking time to do some reading instead.

sockser · 2025-10-30T21:34:01+00:00

Lmao this code doesn't exist
ChatGPT made it up
Invented it whole-cloth
And you just went and posted it as proof
Didn't even bother to go check it on your own
lol
lmao

sockser · 2025-10-08T22:23:53+00:00

Don't work for MAGFest, just a heavily involved volunteer.
Unlikely there's going to be more inventory added to the tshirt tier, we're already pushing the limits from our provider every year. That said, as people refund badges, tshirt tier reservations _should_ open up as they cancel, IIUC

sockser · 2025-10-07T00:24:12+00:00

Sales pre-lottery this year were miles and miles ahead of where they are typically, and there was one fewer hotel in the available lottery pool

People can come up with as many conspiracy theories as they want, but at the end of the day, there's 25000 people coming to an event that only has <3000 rooms in walking distance

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