Inis Spraoi 2015 - game maker un-weekend, Ireland. "Come chill and hang out on Inishbofin island off the coast of Ireland. Switch off your computer and think and talk and play about games differently for a wee while. Stress-less activities, open sessions and a rad setting, for a cosy weekend of discovery/rediscovery. Also, tea. "…
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Feral Vector is a festival with workshops, talks, interviews, live games, Q&As, performances, 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. Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feral-vector-2015-tickets-15828161457
w00t: Play & Games Festival - Copenhagen, Denmark Open call for games, talks, playful constructions: Deadline April 1st, 2015. More info: http://w00t.dk/en/ and the FB event. From the website: W00t – Copenhagen Play festival celebrates play and games across genres, platforms and spaces. Our mission is to bring communities together and explore playful activities in all the…
Lyst - Summit, Finland. 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…
For this year’s Day of Architecture, Expodium invited Playful Arts Festival to organize a day about play and the city. Goal: to publicly research the way play influences the city. Actually, it is more than a public research, it is an experiment in which you are invited to participate. We invited artists Abner Preis, Ieke Trinks, Phoenix…
Game Happens! is a workshop and a networking event focusing on the future of games and on the economic growth of the video game industry in Italy. Villa Bombrini is welcoming this second edition themed Beyond the Screen. International speakers will share their experiences in designing and developing digital games that create plaful experiences within…
Join us for a night of games and play for grown-ups! What does play mean to you? How has our understanding of play changed over time? We're filling the building with all sorts of fun, from intriguing new digital games to traditional parlour favourites as well as discussions and experiences based around the different ways…
Radius, the Video Games Exhibition and Festival, will take up residence at the Ovalhalle / MuseumsQuartier in the heart of Vienna, Austria. Over the course of four days we’ll host a wonderful diversity of games, presented by their developers at our Radius DAY Exhibition. In the EVENINGS we’ll host our entertaining Radius NIGHT show! We’ll…
Game Jam at a castle. From the website: Castle Game Jam is an event which brings together programmers, musicians, artists and designers that together create interesting concepts over the course of 1 week. It’s meant to be the best vacation of the year, yet also inspiring and fulfilling workwise. As a participant you’ll meet new contacts…
This very special event at the V&A will present museum curators in conversation with the creators of the beautiful and fascinating forthcoming videogame, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. In Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, players will discover the mysteries behind a richly realised and apparentlya bandoned Shropshire village in the year 1984. Players piece together…
JOIN - Local Multiplayer summit, Berlin, Germany. Join is a one day event about local multiplayer video games, or “games that can be played by two or more people in the same physical location”.
The NOTGAMES FEST is returning to Cologne this summer with an exquisite selection of extraordinary interactive works of art. Become part of the 7-day exhibition from August 2-8, submit your game, come play and celebrate with us at the Vernissage in our brand new location near the Cologne trade fair. The NOTGAMES FEST is an…
V&A's Friday Late: Pushing Buttons From the website: Come push our buttons as radical videogame design takes over the V&A. Play, make and spectate in arcades,workshops and performances that take us from the rebellious world of altgames through to the massive cultural phenomenon of eSports. LHS Bikeshed - @LHSBikeshed 65daysofstatic - @65dos Wild Rumpus - @wildrumpus…
HEADSTART 2015 is a week-long, international summer school, aimed at starting indie developers. From the website: Whether you're a recent graduate or a budding company: as an indie, there's much that demands your attention, and so much still to learn. You need to know how to do everything yourself, and you only have so much…
The conference starts at 9.30 am on 2nd September, 2015 and finishes at 5.00 pm European Women in Games Conference features: 2 Keynotes Panels: Panel 1: Expanding Horizons: Virtual Reality Panel 2: Expanding Horizons: Making games for Kids/ Education software Panel 3: "A new job in the games industry" Panel 4: "The benefits of mentoring"…
A Weekend of Games and Play. From the website: The underlying idea is that this is about games in whatever form: board games, digital games, pervasive games, playable sculptures, objects you poke at, guided walks that were secretly games all along. Talks Line-Up Games and Poetry on Wednesday 2 September, 7pm-8:30. We look at the intersection of games…
“For the forth year A MAZE. is welcoming african and international game developers, digital artists, forward thinkers, entrepreneurs, and digital activists in Johannesburg to exchange tools, skills and ideas in the fields of independent games and playful media. Since A MAZE. is the first festival of that kind in Africa we have the responsibility to…
Indie Gameleon is a festival organized by indie game developers, for indie game developers, game design students and indie game enthusiast! The festival includes lectures, indie game showcase, game jam and a chiptune dance party. http://www.indie-gameleon.org
XOXO Arcade - part of XOXO Festival From the website: Every year, we bring some of the most interesting indie games to XOXO, projecting their games huge onto the walls of the YU. This year, we have our biggest lineup yet: 12 of the most interesting, unreleased, eagerly-anticipated indie games we could find, with each…
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