Past Events

Giocosamente - Toffia Playfulness Festival From the website: A new Festival dedicated to Playfulness is about to be born. Playfulness as an attitude and disposition of character and it’s cultivation. How is Playfulness cultivated in life, in work, in education? How does Playfulness expand? How is it taught? How can playfulness make our lives more interesting and meaningful? We will explore Playfulness in workshops and happenings. The workshops will be dedicated to two areas: Exchanges of playful practices for facilitators…

From the website: INDIGO, Dutch Game Garden’s largest game showcase, returns in 2019 with a new name: INDIGOx, marking a new direction as well as the 10th edition of the event. INDIGOx takes place June 28th 2019 at Speys, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 2019 is the 10th anniversary of our INDIGO event. At the moment, we are developing the program of INDIGOx – it will be a more business-oriented event, which we will reveal more about later. Blogpost: https://www.dutchgamegarden.nl/indigox-10th-edition-of-indigo-takes-place-june-28-2019-2/

Isle of Games 002 is the second installation of Isle of Games, a one day event that showcases alternative games and playful media from Iceland and abroad. At Isle of Games you can experience the weird, the beautiful, the artistic, and the cultural side of modern video games and its extended family. Before the exhibition opens, you can attend short talks by artists featured at the exhibition. In the main hall of IÐNÓ, you can play games in custom installations…

IndieCade supports the development of independent games and organizes a series of international events to promote the future of indie games. It encourages, advertises and cultivates interactive media and their talent for innovation and art, in order to create a perspective as rich, varied and artful as possible for the public. IndieCade events, their productions and publications' foremost focus is to facilitate new creations of independent games. Games IndieCade Europe celebrates this year’s best independent games. Developers from all over the…

Game Happens (8-10 November @ Genova, Italy) is the international festival dedicated to the cultural, political and social impact of video games. The 2019 theme is Elements of Change. From 8th to 10th November 2019, Game Happens – the International Festival in Italy dedicated to the cultural, political and social impact of video games – returns to Genova with a fifth edition that focuses on the most innovative elements of the European independent video game scene, to link this field with the…

"PLAY is the first an only festival worldwide to unite media art, discourse and education with the culture of digital games. It focuses on the creative utilization of digital games: invent, build, tinker, modify, program, dance, discuss - anything goes! PLAY is the festival for game enthusiasts and gamers, indie game developers and media artists, pupils and students, teachers and educators, scientists, people involved in the games industry and everyone, who wishes to play and learn with digital games." Good…

"Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design running at Somerset House in London from 3-5 April 2020, showcasing interactive and playful work as part of the London Games Festival." "In 2020 we'll be looking at games that relate to our theme of 'Breaking Point' - games are the aesthetic forms of systems, and we're looking at works that break or subvert them in interesting and creative ways. Expect everything from small scale remixes you can sit with,…

"Feral Vector is not like other game design events. If you feel like an impostor at games events, you’re not only welcome here, we encourage you to attend. If you are in the videogames industry, but looking for more than it can give, Feral Vector is for you. Feral Vector is fundamentally about outside influences, accessible tools, and the fringes of game design – because that’s where the interesting stuff begins"