http://zoomachines.com/ 10 special guests will present their innovative projects, initiatives and approaches in arts, games, production and distribution. It's all about sharing new ways to create digital games, to impulse creativity and to inspire you! Zoo Machines is also a super-duper Game Jam! You will develop and build incredible new game experiences. Crazy controllers, amazing…
Beta Public - three curated nights of videogames and performance. Play through a menu of the weirdest and most wonderful videogames, watch a selection of performances, and witness a world-first experiment in merging the live and digital worlds! Engaging performances and talks from exciting and provocative artists. Beta Public is about: New videogames and performance.…
A Scratch Night Of Play - Curated by William Drew for Coney Coney return to Camden People's Theatre to present another evening of playing theatre. We’ll again be presenting short pieces and works-in-progress that invite the audience to play (in some way or other) either in the theatre or elsewhere in the building: standing up,…
International Competition/ Workshops / Conference More tba
Screenshake 2016 is the fourth edition of Belgium's only international indie game festival and takes place February 19-21 at Het Bos, Antwerp. Support the festival via their IndieGoGo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/screenshake-2016-indie-game-festival--2#/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XryQDGy0pTs
Event about games and play. More info tba. See 2015 event: http://nowplaythis.net/2015
The Art of Play: A day with masterclasses for creative professionals interested in a playful perspective. Theme: Stimulate the Senses Tickets https://the-art-of-play-2016-masterclasses.eventbrite.nl Location: De Verkeerstoren, Amsterdam (NL) Design, discuss and explore concepts focused on playful, sensory and interactive experiences using sound, wearables or immersive space. Join our extraordinary experts in the masterclasses and play &…
EGX Rezzed will return to London's Tobacco Dock on the 7th to 9th April 2016.
International festival and community that brings together a diverse group of professionals to cultivate a more playful world. http://www.counterplay.org/counterplay-16/
After five sellout dates at CPT, Beta Public returns to programme four late nights of the wildest and weirdest crossover experiments in theatre and videogames. Expect artist-led Let’s Plays, audience-driven adventures, talks from cutting-edge game developers, and much, much more! Investigating a different theme each night, Beta Public Presents the newest work at the intersection of…
"A MAZE. / Berlin turns 5! A birthday special you don't wanna miss." - Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Artistic Director and Founder of A MAZE. A MAZE. / Berlin brings together international independent game developers, digital creatives and game enthusiast in Berlin. A MAZE. / Berlin is also a public festival with an mind-blowing music lineup,…
Feral Vector is a festival about making games and gamelike things. Feral Vector has workshops, talks, interviews, live games, Q&As, performances, walks, and other things. It’s centred on the subject of game design, its wider cultural influences, the places people think it should go next, and the neglected, ignored places it’s already been. This is…
A one day event where we will explore playful arts that are still in development. More info soon.
Maker festival Rotterdam. Creative makers coming from technology, art, innovation and design. Evening programme with installations, performances, talks and a music line-up. www.futurefluxfestival.nl
game maker un-weekend - More info tba: http://inisspraoi.org/
The annual international festival in Italy where game design, interaction design and virtual reality collide. http://2016.gamehappens.com/
Summit about romance, love in games http://lyst-summit.dk/ Open Call: http://lyst-summit.dk/open_call.html Programme Gemma Thomson will be the Conférencier during the event. 9.00 - Registration opens - 9.45 - Welcome by the Organizers and Gemma Thomson 10:00 - Ste Curran Love & Violence - How we tell stories of love and violence, where we fail, and why.…
Playful Learning is pitched at the intersection of learning and play for adults. Playful in approach and outlook, yet underpinned by robust research and working practices, we’ll be providing a space where teachers, researchers and students can play, learn and think together. A space to meet other playful people and be inspired by talks, workshops, activities and…
Ever thought of your body as a game controller? The alternative controller movement is picking up steam in the independent game developer community. A game where your clothing functions as a controller to a chicken simulation that has you peck corn off of a computer screen; Incubate Arcade invites the worlds most inventive and creative game developers…
Join the Incubate Arcade artists in conversation! Incubate Arcade explores intimacy, weird interfaces and the work by female indie devs in an exhibition with 35+ games & installations. Several of the artists are present and we're going to explore the themes further with them through workshops, panels and talks on 10 September. 10 September 2016…
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