For those who don’t know, MAGFest is the single biggest game music event in the world, so it’s no surprise that plenty of artists are hoping to make it to the main stage.

The former executive director of MAGFest, Nick Marinelli, is important figure in the VGM scene for a lot of reasons, but I’ll leave the introductions to him.

If I had to distill MAGFest 2020 into a single word or idea, it’s this—community.