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Potions and Pixels, Charlotte's indie community Tour with Michael Zytkow
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Potions and Pixels, Charlotte's indie community Tour with Michael Zytkow
Eh, Yo! Let's dive into Potions and Pixels with the owner Michael Zytkow. Potions and Pixels is located in Charlotte North Carolina and is run my Michael Zytkow. Potions and Pixels is know in the...
Highlights
- Potions and Pixels hosts over 80 indie games from developers across the globe in their custom game launcher
- The project features hand-painted cabinet artwork and is moving toward vinyl wrap designs created with local Charlotte artists
- Potions and Pixels uses FPGA hardware replication technology rather than software emulation on classic arcade units
- The facility partners with Mecklenburg County Solid Waste and Recycling to source authentic CRT TVs from the waste stream
- Potions and Pixels runs workforce development programs teaching carpentry and electrical skills while building arcade units for community placement
Notable quotes
“what makes this project unique...is the first thing you're going to see is the unique artwork. So we work with a ton of amazing local artists throughout Charlotte to create these units entirely from scratch.”
“We built our own custom game launcher. So across all these arcade machines...we got over 80 games from developers all across the globe.”
“We're really hardcore about giving everybody credit who's involved with our machines. You can learn more about them, connect with all the developers.”
“We actually have a partnership with Mecklenburg County Solid Waste and Recycling...rather than taxpayers spending all this money to get rid of these...we actually take these and give them a second life.”
“It's workforce development, it's about supporting public art, it's about supporting sustainability, and it's about building community and preserving games.”
Entities
- Compulsive Pinball· company
- Charlotte Shout· event
- Cookie Crayon· organization
- Indie Arcade Wave· organization
- Mecklenburg County Solid Waste and Recycling· organization
- Potions and Pixels· organization
- Innovation Barn· venue
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