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  • Bit Bash 2016

    venue_ Revel Fulton Market, Chicago, United States

    "Chicago's Alternative Games Festival  - showcasing an international collection of lesser but culturally significant videogames" http://bitbashchicago.com/

  • A MAZE. / Johannesburg 2016

    A MAZE Johannesburg 2016 TBA Johannesburg, South Africa

    A MAZE. / Johannesburg 5th edition independent videogames festival http://www.amaze-johannesburg.co.za/

  • Incubate Arcade 2016

    De NWE Vorst WillemII-straat 49, Tilburg

    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…

  • Incubate Arcade 2016: Conversations_

    De NWE Vorst WillemII-straat 49, Tilburg

    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…

  • Hand Eye Society Ball - photo by Dean Tomlinson

    The Society Ball 2016

    Society Ball Venue - TBA Toronto, Canada

    Hand Eye Society Ball. Video game party: Elegant evening of electronic entertainment.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=habndudJ-bY

  • INDIGO 2016

    TivoliVredenburg Vredenburgkade 11, Utrecht, Netherlands

    INDIGO takes place September 27th in Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht. Dutch Game Garden invites game developers from the Netherlands and Belgium to showcase their games! INDIGO is Dutch Game Garden's games showcase, presenting the finest, most outstanding games in the Netherlands and Belgium. The games range from brand new playable prototypes to completed games offering impressive…

  • Control Conference 2016

    TivoliVredenburg Vredenburgkade 11, Utrecht, Netherlands

    Control - game conference.  

  • Contours 2016

    Library at the Dock Melbourne, Australia

    Contours - "Charting the fringes of independent games in Melbourne and Australia A month-long exhibition of playable games, zines, artwork, sculptures, videos, photography and other cultural gems http://contours-exhibition.com/ Events Opening Night Event: 10 October 2016: 6PM https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/contours-opening-night-tickets-27674861255 In Conversation Series: HELEN STUCKEY - October 13 MARIGOLD BARTLETT - October 19 NICO DISSELDORP - October 27…

  • IndieCade 2016

    TBA Los Angeles, United States

    The IndieCade Festival is a celebration of indie games, its creators and the innovation within the industry. We also curate and recognize those that we identify as the top indie games of the year. More than 200 games of all types are selected by our esteemed Jury and are made available to play. Attendees also…

  • GameCity 2016

    Nottingham Nottingham, United Kingdom

    Videogame festival Nottingham, UK From the website:  Now in it’s eleventh year, Nottingham’s world-renowned video game festival returns, promising to be bigger than ever! Headlining games industry speakers from across the world will provide a free talks and workshops programme throughout the festival- all hosted at The National Videogame Arcade Operating as a fringe festival,…

  • PLAY16

    Unnamed Venue Hamburg, Germany

    PLAY – Creative Gaming Festival is the first and unique festival, which combines media art, discourse and education with the culture of digital games. Discuss games with new perspectives at our confernce and panels, learn how to use games creatively in our workshops and play experimental indie games in our interactive exhibition.

  • Beta Public 6

    Camden People's Theatre London, United Kingdom

    "Three nights of experimental games and theatre" Website: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/production/beta-public-vi/ Poster design by Musbuh

  • Zoo Machines 2016

    Imaginarium Lille, France

    Festival for innovative art and experimentation in games. Game Jam, Talks, Exhibition http://zoomachines.com/

  • IndieCade Europe 2016

    tba paris, France

    Inaugural edition of IndieCade Europe   IndieCade Europe takes place November 18-19, 2016 in Paris, France. Works shown at this event will be drawn from the IndieCade 2016 game submissions. The games will be curated by the IndieCade Europe Committee that will focus on international representation. There is no separate submission process for inclusion of…

  • Symposium en expositie: Let’s Play Nederlandse Game Geschiedenis

    Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid 1 Media Parkboulevard, Hilversum, Netherlands

    In het kader van een onderzoek naar Let's Play video's en de Let's Play game-tentoonstelling bij Beeld en Geluid, nodigen we game academici, studenten, liefhebbers, verzamelaars en erfgoed professionals van harte uit voor een symposium georganiseerd door Universiteit Utrecht en Beeld en Geluid over het bewaren van Nederlandse computergame geschiedenis. Een volle middag met lezingen,…

  • Wordplay London 2016

    British Library London, United Kingdom

    This year, our festival of writerly games will be happening in London, England, in a no less esteemed place than the British Library. According to the Wikipedia entry, it’s the largest library in the world and included in their collection of 170,000,000 items is the manuscript copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (which was later published as…

  • Fugue of Play

    Platform Minerva Praediniussingel 59, Groningen, Netherlands

    FUGUE OF PLAY | 24 NOVEMBER - 8 DECEMBER | AN EXHIBITION ON ART AND VIDEOGAMES In a world full of smartphones, apps and augmented reality, almost nobody notices a single new videogame. But as a result of the development of extended and accessible techniques, the videogame is no longer just a game of skill.…

  • The Overkill 2016

    The Cee Spot Enschede, Netherlands

    From the website http://www.theoverkill.nl/ The Overkill Festival is a 48 hours nonstop gaming and film event. On The Overkill, visitors are confronted with an ‘Overkill’ of popular culture multimedia, with a strong focus on movies, video and gaming. The transcending borders of these media and the corresponding subcultures evolving around them will get a special attention…

  • Parallel Worlds 2016

    Victoria and Albert Museum Cromwell Road , London, United Kingdom

    https://twitter.com/tigershungry/status/780723660298579969 How do the virtual worlds of videogames reflect and augment our reality? With VR headsets hitting the high street and augmented reality sending players hunting through their neighbourhoods 2016 has seen our virtual and physical worlds collide like never before. But what does it mean to design a virtual world? Come join us on Friday…

  • Exile – Not a Jam! 2016

    Vallekilde Hørve, Denmark

    4-day event to explore interactive things with each other (originally a game jam). Get away from the daily life and join other developers/designers/makers/people for the 11th Exile at the old folk highschool Vallekilde, Denmark. After ten successful Exile Jams we have concluded that the world has enough game jams and that there are plenty of…

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