Several hundred people came through the Artcade to check out 20 homegrown games mostly picked from the TOJam and Artsy Games Incubator projects.

Co-organizer Jim McGinley explains to Gesundheit creator Matt Hammill that his Journey shirt is an ironic nod to the metalheads arcade operators of the ’80s.

Here you can see Jason Van Horne’s swell styrofoam cabinet facades.

And youngsters didn’t just play the games — Myfanwy Ashmore‘s kid Rhupert showed off two Scratch games he’d made during the presentation portion of the day after his mom had demoed her Gameboy poetry. As well as presenting the five brand new AGI games (Snow, Night of the Cephelapods, The Landmarkers, Bubl and Plastico Baggara), Craig D. Adams talked about some of the inspirations for Scourge, Fernando Restituto demoed the engine for Unnamed Tactics, Jim McGinley showed off his demake of Shadow of the Colossus, and Matt Hammill showed some of his original scratchboard art and revealed a brand new level of Gesundheit!

Attendees of the indie zine fair Canzine were pretty amazed at the variety of games that had been produced in the last year or two in Toronto. Click through to download them for free — except for the AGI games, which will be hittin’ the tubes in a few weeks. Stay tuned!