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Freeplay Independent Games Festival 2013
September 28, 2013 - September 29, 2013
Freeplay is Australia’s longest running independent games festival exploring the intersection of indie development, culture, arts and education.
From the website:
The Freeplay Independent Games Festival is excited to announce that its conference program, this year titled “Volume of Revolution,” will take place at the State Library of Victoria on the weekend of September 28 and 29.
Volume of Revolution seeks to expose, radically upend, celebrate, critically examine and change our approach to making games. It’s looking back at our history so we can forge a better future. It’s a mathematical concept representing the cycle, the fullness, the width and breadth of our medium. It’s about loudness, and listening to the quiet voices we cannot ignore.
As the first festival run by new directors Katie Williams and Harry Lee, this unique conference theme ushers in a new generation of thought in the areas of both the Australian and international games development scenes. As well as workshops and conference sessions, selected local games and Freeplay Awards finalists playable in Experimedia for the duration of the weekend. Along with the new directors’ vision comes changes to the program, which will this year see variations in the session format to present new ways of provoking conversation.
Freeplay is thrilled to once again be working with the State Library of Victoria, with 2013 marking the fifth year of the festival’s close relationship with the Library. “We feel that there is no place better suited in Victoria than the State Library to conduct and encourage vital, high-quality discussion of innovation in the development of both digital and non-digital games,” say Lee and Williams of Freeplay’s long-standing partnership with the nationally recognised arts institution.
NowPlay Mentorship
Freeplay is also announcing the opening of applications for the brand new NowPlay Mentorship, a mentorship program co-curated with Melbourne-based contemporary games and playful collective Pop Up Playground. The mentorship will encourage and support the development of emerging designers working in the field of play, with the winning designer or team to be announced at the 2013 Freeplay conference.
Call for speakers: http://www.freeplay.net.au/speakers.html
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Events for the Dutch industry:
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