"I have friends playing in [the battle of the bands], and good luck to all them, but a lot of the bands you can see probably almost every week," Rains said.
Rains said This Place Is Haunted typically plays a mix of originals and video game covers but will focus on video game music for this show, along with "new stuff we want to show off."
Ryan Soloby, one of two synth players in Chromelodeon, said the group usually plays its video game covers under a pseudonym because it has a following for its original music, but it will play video game music to keep in line with the show's theme.
"There's kind of a gray area between the originals and covers," Soloby said. "Most of our inspiration comes from video games and soundtracks."
Also performing will be Entertainment System, who plays video game covers exclusively, Rains said. There will be Nintendo systems set up for Duck Hunt and NES Track and Field Competitions, as well as an on-site repair shop for broken machines.
The art aspect will be handled by the Learning Factory, a collection of artists headed by Luke Rains, Peat's brother. Luke Rains' pseudonym in the Learning Factory is Kaptain Carbon.
"I've always felt that art shows were pretentious and boring, and wanted to make a fun one," Luke Rains said. He said this is the second show for the group, which includes members from Philadelphia, New York and Pittsburgh.
Luke Rains said the group's goal is to make art more accessible, instead of "only understood by the art elite."
He added that works for sale will range from $20 to $40.
"I don't want to say art for the common people; that sounds way too proletariat and way too communist," he said. "We're a group of mad scientists."
Luke Rains said the group would have ways for people to win pieces of art as they did at its first show, including an arm-wrestling competition for one of the paintings. There will also be three hidden tokens, which can be redeemed for a free piece of art if found.
"We wanted to run through a paper portrait of Van Gogh, like a football team runs through a banner, but we couldn't get a fog machine," he said. Luke Rains said he hopes to keep a spontaneous atmosphere.
"Everything is unsure up until the day of the show," he said.