With the festival closed for this year, our attentions are about to be turned to the future – but not before we’ve had a final audit and presented our results to our stakeholders.
Here, we present for you the independently verified numbers that have been extracted from the activities at GameCity 5.

45,000+

[Visitors to this years festival. That's a lot, right? Like, LOTS more than last year... Crikey..]

1 Local Television News spot

[Thanks ITV Central News]

1 Laser Harp
[There were 2 performance on it however..]

1 Playground
[But with around 14 of the designs presented..]

1 Singer-Songwriter
[The splendid Ms Mayes...]

1 Radio Play
[The charming GamePeople chaps]

1 Lost Pencil
[A crisis near averted as the pencil that Adam Saltsman has 'had since college' was lost for a few hours and re-discovered thanks to the diligent actions of a steward.]

1 Religious Protest
[No footage of this available, but marks a first for the festival]

1 Ideas Bucket
[+ hundreds of ideas]

2 Theremins
[Played by Greig Stewart, Susi O'Neill, Rebecca Mayes and various audience members]

2 Curries
[The average curry consumption dropped a lot this year as a result of consumer feedback from 2009..]

2 GameJams
[Blackcurrant and Strawberry]

2 Hangovers
[Caused by diminished self-control and peer pressure]

3 Owls
[Ringo, Khan, Nutmeg]

3 Professional Comedians
[Wil Hodgson, Graham Goring, Chris Stokes]

3 Nonprofessional (but still very good) Comedians
[One Life Left in their first standup gig]

4 Full English Breakfasts
[Which helped with the hangovers]

6 Lounges
[and eight artists participating]

6 Crysis Cutouts
[Hidden around the City]

7 Head Stewards
[They were splendid.]

10 Mario Cakes
[They were brilliant.]

12 Roadies
[Unexpectedly filed out of the back of a van that had driven from Birmingham at 6.45 on Monday morning.]

14 Venues
[All of which were fantastic and supportive]

66 Events
[Not counting some of the impromptu ones..]

150 Stewards
[Brilliant, every one.]

Too many unsold T-shirts to bother counting
[On sale at GameCityNights and online soon!]

100,000,000 LEGO bricks
[Rough estimation]

0 Regrets