Join is a one day event about local multiplayer video games, which means “games that can be played by two or more people in the same physical location”. From the website: Why: Because the games that you can play together with other people are our favourite kind of games. Those games used to rule they world,…
The Game Developers Conference™ Europe (GDC Europe) is the largest professionals-only game industry event in Europe. The GDC Europe will be held in conjunction with gamescom, the leading European consumer show, creating a full week of activity and opportunity for the games industry. This confluence of industry professionals allows GDC Europe to address the development…
The #1ReasonToBe panel makes its GDC Europe debut this year with a rapid, fun microtalk-style celebration and exploration of what it means to be a woman in games, European style. Each panelist will share their experience, its highs and lows, and explore a vision for a future industry that is inclusive for everyone. The session…
Otherplace is an experimental game and play event in Malmö, Sweden. From the website: Otherplace explores the boundaries between fiction and reality, the playful and the serious. Games have the ability to engage us in conceptual worlds that exist in parallell, and at times seem to expand beyond reality. Play can disrupt our every day…
SUPER GAME JAM is a documentary series about making video games in 48 hours. Created by Daniel Oliveira Carneiro and Bram Ruiter. The first four episodes will be screened at film theatre 't Hoogt in Utrecht, the Netherlands, followed by Utrecht Indie Meetup. Tickets for the screening available via 't Hoogt website or at the door.
Game exhibit at Bumbershoot 2014. Curated by Sam Machkovech From '80s arcades to modern smartphones, games have existed in enough varied, sustained forms to prove commonplace for an audience as broad as Bumbershoot's. Still, as in most creative mediums, gaming's more artistic efforts haven't proven as popular or well-known. Bumbercade will celebrate multiple styles of…
Bit Bash - Chicago's Indie Game Festival Bit Bash is Chicago’s first interactive arts festival showcasing an international collection of lesser-known but undeniably culturally significant video games. Local game developers have carefully selected over 30 unique titles — games you can play with a controller, games you play with friends, games you can hold in…
Playable City conference 2014: Making the City Playable. From the website: From Stockholm’s Piano Staircase to Bogota’s traffic mimes, a global movement of unusual city interventions is taking shape, using playfulness to connect people to each other and the places they live and work. We call it Playable City. On 10 and 11 September 2014,…
Independent Games and Playful Media festival “For the third 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.” This year A MAZE. / Johannesburg is becoming part of the…
European Women in Games Conference + Awards. Your Future in Games. Tickets. From the FB Event: The fourth annual European Women in Games Conference is to take place on Wednesday 10th September at London South Bank University. The theme of this year’s conference is "Your future in games." The programme will feature a range of current…
"The Irish Games Community welcomes you to come, chill and hang out on an Island. Switch off your computer and think and talk about games differently for a while. Stress-less activities, open sessions and a rad setting, for a small and cosy weekend of rediscovery. Also, tea." FB Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/507913632648318 Website: http://www.inisspraoi.org Potential events include: - “Race for…
Afternoon about development of games, online and in public space. Games will be researched from different perspectives: entertainment, science and sociology. Speakers among others: IJsfontein, Hubbub. Launch MU Play & Learn. Launch urban game developed by Hubbub.
XOXO Festival features XOXO Arcade: "Play some of the best of the modern indie gaming scene, with a focus on experimental multiplayer games, and meet the designers who made them." Line-up: Quadrilateral Cowboy Musclecat Showdown Killer Queen eleVR Bennett Foddy’s Speed Chess Tenya Wanya Teens Close Castles Night in the Woods Panoramical Please Don’t, Spacedog!
Playful Arts Festival founders Wave of Tomorrow and zo-ii partner up with Incubate in Tilburg to bring music and games to the internationally renowned cutting edge culture festival. Exhibited Games: Fract Icefishing V Memory of a Broken Dimension Soundself Remembering 140 Johann Sebastian Joust Bounden Cave! Cave! Deus Videt Panoramical Soundodger Proteus Pulse Beatbuddy Karmaflow:…
Zürich Game Festival. From the press release: From 18 to 21 September 2014 the first edition of Ludicious – Zurich Game Festival will turn the town into the computer game industry meeting point for innovative emerging talents. From 19 September 2014 a varied programme will also be offered for interested members of the public. Special…
From the website: Fantastic Arcade is a specially selected power-pack of videogames presented during the first week of Fantastic Fest (Sept 18th - 21st) with accompanying tournaments, events, opportunities to meet the creators, and custom old-school arcade cabinets built for the 'arcadiest' of the bunch. All the games selected will be accessible to both festival…
Games and game design festival in Zurich. gameZfestival is a festival for game design and games. The initial Festival was all about game mechanics. This year's dominant topic is "play together". The first video games were all multiplayer games, from Spacewar and TennisForTwo to Pong. The game was the Tabula Rasa that featured odd rules. With…
Fifth annual No Quarter Exhibition. http://gamecenter.nyu.edu/event/no-quarter-exhibition Featuring four new games from established and emerging independent game developers, this year’s show will be hosted at the new Waka Waka space in the Lower East Side in Manhattan. THE GAMES This year’s No Quarter will feature four new games by veteran and rising New York stars: Dog…
Inviting spectators and players to Incubate Arcade Live, meet composers of game soundtracks. Experience the games on a big screen while the composers play the soundtracks live. Incubate Arcade Live is a live event at theatre De NWE Vorst where composers of game audio/ soundtracks accompany live play sessions of the respective games. Visitors can…
Showcase for Dutch indie games organized by Dutch Game Garden. Deadline for game submission: 4 August 23:59. News item with submission deadline. (in Dutch) News item (English) From the website: Dutch Game Garden presents 32 new games by developers from the Netherlands at their yearly INDIGO showcase. Among the games are RIVE, the new game from…
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