Last weekend, the Toronto International Film Festival concluded with the last of the world premieres, red-carpet galas, star-studded parties, and not to mention TIFF Nexus’ own major contribution to the festivities: the presentation of a 100-player co-op laser game called RENGA, which we hyped up here, and which reduced its two audiences to a cacophony of enthusiastic oohs and ahhs.

RENGA’s Concluding Message Photo credit: Emily Claire Afan

In the weeks to come, we’ll be uploading some footage of the two audience’s collaborative interactive excursion into deep space (where they learned to harvest quads and blow up big “reds” and “blues”), but for now let the tweets of those that attended tell the tale:

#RENGA TONIGHT!! Bring on the lasers! #TIFF12 @TIFF_Net @ Cinema 3 at TIFF Bell Lightbox http://instagr.am/p/PksluXsSuH/

— Ashley Jane Lewis (@AshleyJaneLewis)

This is my kind of film/video game event #RENGA #TIFF12 twitter.com/kaittremblay/s…

— Kaitlin Tremblay (@kaittremblay) September 15, 2012

I may never want to see an ordinary film again. Too much fun at the #TIFF12 screening of #Renga twitter.com/AshleyJaneLewi…

— Ashley Jane Lewis (@AshleyJaneLewis) September 15, 2012

BRING ON THE FINAL BATTLE. #Renga #TIFF #TIFF12 twitter.com/EmilyClaireAfa…

— Emily Claire Afan (@EmilyClaireAfan) September 15, 2012

Turns out @wearewallfour are just as cool as their game. #Renga was phenomenal! Best thing I’ve seen at #TIFF12! twitter.com/AshleyJaneLewi…

— Ashley Jane Lewis (@AshleyJaneLewis) September 15, 2012

#100people #100lasers #renga is Japanese for a poem with 100 verses. #gamepoetry on screen at #tiff12

— James Weyman (@CultureJamMan) September 15, 2012

if you ever get to check out #Renga, don’t miss it. Freakin awesome! Best of #tiff12 h@ TIFF Bell Lightbox instagr.am/p/PlIdMYLTX0/

— ann poochareon (@miserychick) September 15, 2012

Renga was really cool! Too bad I couldn’t keep the laser pointer. It’s an interesting mix between game, and film. #renga

— Arthur Marris (@arthurmarris) September 15, 2012

Our massive #renga ship built from lasers! Trés cool @wearewallfour #collaborativegaming #groupdynamics #tiff twitter.com/nim342/status/…

— Nick Shim (@nim342) September 15, 2012

#renga was great! Our ship beat the boss. Thanks @wearewallfour and @tiff_nexus ! twitter.com/techknight/sta…

— Derek Quenneville (@techknight) September 15, 2012

Also #renga last night was an incredibly bizarre, entertaining, and hard to explain experience.

— Brendan Schoone-Jong (@BrendanSJ) September 15, 2012

Amazing experience! is.gd/eDbVPw #GetGlue #Renga

— Alexandra Cioppa (@AlexJChops) September 16, 2012

#Renga says ‘Be Excellent to Each Other and Party On!’…awesome game. twitter.com/jjanaj/status/…

— Jana Jankovic (@jjanaj) September 15, 2012

Will #Renga ever come back @tiff_nexus? I want to watch/play! #TIFF12

— Kate Killet (@katekillet) September 15, 2012