Wonder what your favorite indie developers might make with an imaginary 8-bit console that never existed until now? Join us this Thursday, December 3rd, at 7:00PM at Austin’s North Door, as JUEGOS RANCHEROS presents a variety of amazing games for PICO-8, a new way to make, share & play tiny games.

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What exactly is the PICO-8? Created by Joseph ‘Lexaloffle‘ White (also known for the Voxatron), it’s a “fantasy console” that doesn’t just play games, but contains all budding designers need to create new works of their own, and share those games on the web or via downloadable “carts” — which are actually just PNG image files containing all the code to run the game!

For our JUEGOS RANCHEROS presentation, we’ll be bringing a selection of games made for the world’s first PICO-8 game jam, which just drew to a close and has voting for best game underway.

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Included in the jam — and from the months leading up to it — are games by some of the developers behind JUEGOS favorites like TowerFall, Fjords, Pugs Luv Beats & more!

All the games will be playable Thursday, December 3rd, at 7:00PM at North Door, 501 Brushy Street, Austin, TX 78702. The show is free and open to all the public, so come join us as we drink, play and meet the people changing the way we think about games!

Austin indie & experimental game lovers rejoice: JUEGOS RANCHEROS is proud to present the opening of The Museum of Human Amusement, an arcade space we’ve built from scratch, debuting Saturday, November 14th at 11am at 3600 Lyons Rd, as part of the East Austin Studio Tours!

The Museum of Human Amusement is was created in partnership with Austin’s esteemed art & event space The Museum of Human Achievement, and spearheaded by our own Rachel ‘Party Time! Hexcellent!‘ Weil.

For its EAST debut, the space will be in operation November 14th & 15th from 11am-6pm, and again November 21st & 22nd at the same time.

The extended JUEGOS family has spent nights & weekends over the past few weeks finishing out the space from inauspicious warehouse beginnings into something pretty special, so we hope you’ll all join us there throughout November!

What will you be able to find there? For starters, the arcade will be home to all of the mini arcade cabinets we debuted at Fantastic Arcade, which you can see more details of here.

The space will also include its own concession stand, selling T-shirts, buttons, stickers & more from both JUEGOS RANCHEROS and a number of associated developers & artists from around Austin.

Below you can find a few more progress shots as we built the arcade. There’s still a ton to do before Saturday, but come celebrate the opening Saturday, November 14th from 11am to 6pm at 3600 Lyons Rd, Austin TX — just steps away from Blue Genie Art Industries & Sa-Ten Coffee.

After EAST has drawn to a close, we’ll still have the space available for future events — keep checking back here to see what we’re doing with the space next!

After what feels like a very long time away, JUEGOS RANCHEROS is back to celebrate the recent release one of our favorite new games! Join us next Thursday, November 5th, at 7:00PM at Austin’s North Door, as JUEGOS RANCHEROS presents the frantic free-falling new action classic Downwell.

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Created by Tokyo-based Orijo “moppin” Fumoto, Downwell is the love-child of games like Spelunky, Cave Story, Super Crate Box and Samurai Gunn, mashed up into a fast-paced but still cerebral action game that’s turned out to be the best new App Store release in ages, and a strong addition to your Steam library, as well.

In addition to giganticizing the tiny iPhone game onto the North Door’s massive two-story screen, chances are good that we’ll be joined remotely by creator Moppin himself to tell us more about where Downwell came from and where his games are headed next.

Downwell will be playable Thursday, November 5th, at 7:00PM at North Door, 501 Brushy Street, Austin, TX 78702. The show is free and open to all the public, so come join us as we drink, play and meet the people changing the way we think about games!

The sixth annual Fantastic Arcade has officially begun! JUEGOS RANCHEROS was responsible for curating all of the games and guests appearing at this year’s Arcade, and so below we’re presenting an exhaustive guide to all of the events happening this year.

As you likely have heard, JUEGOS RANCHEROS has curated six brand new games making their exclusive premiere at Fantastic Arcade. These original games — from the creators of beloved favorites like Desert Golfing, Nuclear Throne and more — each will be presented in their own custom arcade cabinets, playable for free throughout the festival.

Thanks to Humble Bundle, the games are also now available in a new pay-what-you-want bundle alongside Fantastic Arcade all-stars like Fez, Luftrausers, and Hotline Miami! You’ve got until October 1st to visit Humble Bundle and pick up all the games for as much as you’re able to give, with additional proceeds going to support the Able Gamers & Worldreader charities.

But Fantastic Arcade isn’t just about the games. We’ll also be presenting a stellar lineup of panels, tournaments and special events from Monday, September 28th through Thursday, October 1st. Each of these events are ALL-AGES AND FREE TO ATTEND, EVEN IF YOU AREN’T A FANTASTIC FEST BADGEHOLDER! Read on for the full daily guide to all of the panels, tournaments & other special events happening during Fantastic Arcade!

NOTE: All of the events are also available in Google Calendar form at http://bit.ly/fa2015calendar — use the icon at the bottom right of that screen to add all of the events to your own calendar!

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Not able to make it out to our sixth annual Fantastic Arcade, or so in love with the games you saw there that you want to host your own at home? Now you can! Presenting: the Fantastic Arcade Humble Weekly Bundle, a pay-what-you-want bundle of twelve games available for one week only until the end of Fantastic Arcade 2015.

In addition to former Fantastic Arcade favorites Fez, Hotline Miami, Luftrausers, No Brakes Valet, Mirrormoon EP & FRACT OSC, you can also get copies of the six games premiering exclusively at Fantastic Arcade 2015, from the creators of games like Desert Golfing, Nuclear Throne and many more!

JUEGOS RANCHEROS brought together this collection of amazing developers to create these original games for you, and thanks to the folks at Humble Bundle, we’re able to make them available to you at home, in addition to their custom-created cabinets at the Festival!

Below we’ve laid out information on all the exclusive games you can pick up in the bundle, in addition to the all-star games listed above.

We hope you’ll help support all of the devs that took part in this unique bundle — as well as the Able Gamers and Worldreader charities — and help us create more new games & bundles like these in the near future!

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We’re only weeks away from the sixth annual Fantastic Arcade, but let’s kick things off early with a special JUEGOS RANCHEROS preview! Join us this Thursday, September 3rd, at 7:00PM at Austin’s North Door, as JUEGOS RANCHEROS presents three games coming to this year’s Arcade.

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This year’s Fantastic Arcade will include over thirty games from around the world, curated by JUEGOS RANCHEROS and freely playable for the entire duration of the Fantastic Fest, located at the South Lamar Alamo Drafthouse from September 24th through October 1st. We’ve also brought in some amazing developers to develop six brand new games that will exclusively premiere at this year’s Arcade.

On top of that, we’ll be holding special panels, tournaments and other Arcade-specific events from September 28th through October 1st, but you can get an early look at three of these games at this week’s JUEGOS RANCHEROS meetup. The three games shown will be:

Flywrench, by Nidhogg creator Messhof: Just released on Steam after years of anticipation, Flywrench is a game about piloting an abstract morphing bird-spaceship through a complex web of colored lines accompanied by an electronic music soundtrack curated by the world famous, Daedelus.

Circa Infinity, by Kenny Sun: Coming soon to Steam, Circa Infinity is a brain-melting circular platformer with a pulse-pounding soundtrack by Jack + Jim Fay.

Höme Improvisåtion, by The Stork Burnt Down Games: Out now in early access on Steam, Höme Improvisåtion is the world’s most fun (and accurate) furniture assembly experience. Build alone or with your friends to create the beautiful furniture of your dreams!

All of the games will be playable Thursday, September 3rd, at 7:00PM at North Door, 501 Brushy Street, Austin, TX 78702. The show is free and open to all the public, so come join us as we drink, play and meet the people changing the way we think about games!