Nintendo Community Fangame Convention
The Nintendo Community Fangame Convention (NCFC) is an event planned to take place from October 24th to October 28th (Having been moved from October 8th to October 12th). Currently in the planning and development stages, it involves many Nintendo-related fangaming communities, including Mario Fan Games Galaxy, Metroid: Fan Mission, The Zelda Game Network, Metroid Headquarters, Zelda Fan Game Central, and The Gaming Universe. Any fangames that feature Nintendo characters, or are otherwise related to Nintendo, can be submitted. Fangames are showcased via "booths," which are websites that provide information about the game, and in some cases offer demos or complete versions. NCFC is much like the Sonic Ameteur Games Expo (SAGE) run annually by SFGHQ, which was based loosly on the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3).
In addition to booths, there are also "workshops," which are live demonstrations of how various fangame-related objectives are shown. While most workshops can only be registered by a pair of users (a lead host and an assistant), two workshops (Engine Components for Clickteam products and Game Maker) can be hosted by multiple pairs, as these workshops can contain more than one subject.
Due to this event, many people have decided to release their games at the event before releasing them to their originating communities.
On August 7th 2007, ShadowMan announced that NCFC would be hosting a live Q&A session with Charles Martinet, the official voice of Mario. Mr. Martinet had previously been in touch with MFGGers late 2004/early 2005 but had been the subject to flames as not many members of the time believed it was really him. Nevertheless it seems he still wants to turn up.
