Playin’ Siegen 2017
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Join us for our second Playful Arts Meetup on 10 May 2017! Location in Amsterdam TBA Share your projects and thoughts about the cross-over between visual art, performing art, playful design and social interaction. ::::::: CALL FOR TALKS::::::::: Do you have a project you're working on which you would love to talk about from a…
“What we will do on the Discovery Day is to attack the topic of passion from these different angles and give you a variety of takes on what it means when creating games. From the drive that keeps you going to empathy for players with less and less time at their hands, from the pleasure…
Student Game Development Conference - Utrecht
Feral Vector takes place in an old church next to a wooded ravine, in the town of Hebden Bridge. It has workshops, talks, interviews, live games, local multiplayer, Q&As, performances, walks, and other things. It’s centred on the subject of game design, its wider influences, the places people think it should go next, and the…
Interactive Performance evening. Playful Arts Sessions is an exciting evening where you can get acquainted with leading and emerging artists at the intersection of visual arts, performing arts and playful design. Includes Dinner! During the first Playful Arts Sessions we dive into the work of artist duos The100Hands (NL) and Louise Orwin & Eugenie Pastor (UK),…
Lyst is a conference and a cooperative prototyping environment focused on the arts and crafts of games. Lyst is a free space to explore your ideas. "This summit aims to bring light and love to a somewhat controversial subject in games; even though romance, love and sex are some of the most natural aspects of human…
No More Sweden is a gathering of independent game developers from the whole world meeting up somewhere in Sweden. The event has been arranged every year since 2008.
23-24 June 2017, Genova (Italy) The international festival in Italy where game design looks beyond its own boundaries. This fourth edition features two days of talks and showcased games full of extra inspiration from performing arts.
Dutch Game Garden invites you to INDIGO, the showcase for the finest, most outstanding games by independent developers. The games range from brand new playable prototypes to completed games offering impressive and rich experiences. With the creators presenting them on our special custom-made arcade cabinets, the stage is set for you to meet the next rising star! The next INDIGO…
Join us for our third Playful Arts Meetup on 9 August 2017! Location: Theatre Festival Boulevard ‘s-Hertogenbosch Share your projects and thoughts about the cross-over between visual art, performing art, playful design and social interaction. ::::::: CALL FOR TALKS::::::::: Do you have a project you’re working on which you would love to talk about from a…
What does it mean to create a virtual world? This one day international conference will bring together leading designers, thinkers and players who are creating entirely new worlds and communities in videogames. https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/Elb1YGqV/parallel-worlds-designing-alternative-realities
CHI PLAY is an international and interdisciplinary conference (by ACM SIGCHI) for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human-computer interaction (HCI). We call this area “player-computer interaction.” The goal of the conference is to highlight and foster discussion of current high quality research in games and HCI as foundations for the…
Splash - game jam on a cruise ship "A GAME JAM that takes place on a cruise ship waaaay above the Arctic Circle." Follow along for more updates: https://www.facebook.com/splashgamejam/
From the website: All over the world, play is being embraced as an antidote to the anonymity of the urban environment. This one day conference will explore the theme of the Playable City and how public space, creativity and imagination combines to create unexpected interactions and a new kind of dialogue. We have gathered together…
Game festival "The Overkill is a 48+1 hour nonstop playful event focused on digital culture. The festival shows connections between different media and their influence on today’s society. During an intense weekend we invite you to play a great selection of games, watch an original movie program, interact and experience impressive art installations! The Overkill is…
Independent games festival
Creative Gaming Festival "From November 1st to 5th 2017 the PLAY17 - Creative Gaming Festival invites all game enthusiasts to Hamburg to join the festivities of its 10th anniversary and celebrate the culture of digital games." "PLAY is the first an only festival worldwide to unite media art, discourse and education with the culture of…
Festival for Games From the 9th to the 12th of November 2017 Düsseldorf will once again be about the future of digital games in art, education and business. For the second time, the NRW KULTURsekretariat together with many partners invites all friends, fans and experts of the digital game culture to the Next Level Festival in…
"VIII International Festival of Independent Games From November 29 to December 3, Azkuna Zentroa will be holding the 8th International Festival of Independent Games AzPlay, a not-to-miss event for independent sector professionals, fans worldwide and local companies who can use it to promote and publicise their work. AzPlay 2017 will be a meeting point for knowledge…
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