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June 2017
Feral Vector 2017
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 neglected, ignored places it’s already been.
Find out more »Lyst 2017
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 behaviour, it is not portrayed very often, or very well in games. We want to bring artists, developers, sound artists and creatives from inside and…
Find out more »No More Sweden 2017
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.
Find out more »Print Screen Festival 2017
From the website: "The PSF Games Program for 2017 will be centered around a performative game jam event. To participate, contact the games curator at shalev.email@gmail.com Print Screen is Israel's International Digital Arts and Culture Festival. Just as the "PrintScreen" function captures a screenshot of a computer, so does the festival capture a contemporary screenshot of life in the epoch of new media. Print Screen 2017 will focus on the connection between biology, art and digital technology under the title:…
Find out more »Game Happens! 2017
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.
Find out more »INDIGO 2017
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 event takes place on June 30 at De LiK, a former prison in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Find out more »July 2017
Vector Festival 2017
Vector Festival is a participatory and community-oriented initiative dedicated to showcasing digital games and creative media practices. Presenting works across a dynamic range of exhibitions, screenings, performances, lectures, and workshops, Vector acts as a critical bridge between emergent digital platforms and new media art practice. The 2016 Festival took place between July 14-17, 2016 across multiple venues in Toronto. Open Call - Deadline 31 January 2017: http://interaccess.org/news/2016/nov/vector-festival-2017-call-submissions Official website: http://vectorfestival.org
Find out more »Come Out & Play 2017
Come Out & Play returns to New York City in 2017 for a 12th year of extraordinary outdoor games. We’ll take over DUMBO on July 21 with an evening of street games and play. Then we’ll move the fun to Governors Island on July 22 for a day of new sports and family-friendly games. Charge up your phone, lace up your running shoes and get ready for another two days of wild new games and playful experiences. After Dark DUMBO,…
Find out more »August 2017
Playful Arts Meetup #3
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 playful arts perspective? Let us know via helloplayfulartsfestival.com. We have room for about three 15 minute talks. ::::::::::: ::::::: FEEDBACK ON YOUR PROJECTS?::::::::: Do you have…
Find out more »Contours 2017
A mixtape exhibition of contemporary Australian videogames, split into two sides: Side A explores "Not Quite Games", games that don't quite fit our understanding or expectation of what games are. Side B focuses on "Personal Games", games that are intimate, autobiographical, or personal in nature. Contours features playable games, zines, books, comics, artwork, paintings, sculptures, videos, photography and other cultural gems. Tickets & info: http://contours-exhibition.com/NOT QUITE GAMES AUGUST 15 - 21 A1. Ian MacLarty THE CATACOMBS OF SOLARIS (2016) A2. Bethany Wilksch THE…
Find out more »September 2017
Parallel Worlds: Designing Alternative Realities 2017
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
Find out more »October 2017
IndieCade 2017
The IndieCade Festival is the premiere event dedicated to celebrating independent games in the nation. Now in its 10th year, IndieCade is held each October in the Los Angeles area and is open to the industry and to the public. IndieCade Festival 2017, October 6th - 8th, offers a unique opportunity to play and preview over 200 of the latest innovative indie games of all types and from around the world. Attendees enjoy games, talks, and events with both creators…
Find out more »CHI PLAY 2017
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 future of digital play. To this end, the conference will feature streams that blend academic research and games with research papers, interactive demos, and industry…
Find out more »SPLASH 2017
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/
Find out more »Making the City Playable 2017
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 an international mix of artists, academics, policy makers and producers to speak about their transformative work in cities from Montreal to Mexico City, Lagos to…
Find out more »The Overkill 2017
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 an open platform, a flexible space for creative minds to meet and an intense time to share thoughts and experience. With our partners we are…
Find out more »IndieCade Europe 2017
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Find out more »November 2017
PLAY17
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 digital games. It focuses on the creative utilization of digital games: invent, build, tinker, modify, program, dance, discuss - anything goes! PLAY is the festival…
Find out more »Next Level 2017
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 the NRW-Forum. For the first time, other venues such as the tanzhaus nrw and the Filmmuseum Düsseldorf are also present, while at the same time the…
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