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  • Indie Gameleon 2014

    Unnamed Venue Groningen, Netherlands

    http://www.indie-gameleon.org/

  • PLAY Masterclass | Society of Play

    Nederlands Vestingmuseum Naarden, Netherlands

    "One Day Masterclass about implementing real life games and stories, to learn, discover and develop" http://www.societyofplay.org

  • Free to Play 2014

    Designcenter De Winkelhaak Lange Winkelhaakstraat 26, Antwerp, Belgium

    Free to Play 2014 - Artistic Indie Game Expo - Antwerp From the website: Indie games provide freedom. The freedom of a still fairly nascent medium to be seen as valid, artistic expression. The freedom of its creators to convey their hopes, fears and dreams through glowing dots on a screen, no matter who they…

  • w00t – Copenhagen Play Festival 2014

    Axel Møller Have Copenhagen, Denmark

    w00t Copenhagen Play Festival 2014 From the website: w00t w00t! – Games exultant cry when a victory is won. The w00t festival is a long happy weekend for everyone who loves games and play. A festival presenting new games and thoughts from known, and especially unknown, genres. Themes @ w00t 2014 w00t has pointed out…

  • Radius Festival 2014

    White Space London, United Kingdom

    "Radius is more than just one event, it's a video games festival held in London in June 2014. It is the successor to last year's hugely successful ‘Etoo’, born out of the idea to create an event for people to discover and explore new and interesting games." Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radius-festival-2014-tickets-11865304445 Website: http://www.radiusfestival.com

  • Game Happens! 2014

    Villa Durazzo Bombrini Genova, Italy

    From the website: Game Happens! is a workshop and a networking event focusing on the economic growth of the video game industry in Italy, especially in Genova and in the Liguria region. http://gamehappens.com/index.php/en

  • Games Britannia Live! 2014

    Sheffield Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Games festival Sheffield, UK From the website: Games Britannia Live! is a fun-filled and free family-friendly festival of games invention, creativity and play. It celebrates Britain and Sheffield's rich videogame heritage: past, present and future. http://gamesbritannia.com/live/index.html

  • Feral Vector 2014

    The Crypt on the Green London, United Kingdom

    "An event about game design" Speakers: Hannah Nicklin Gwynn Morfey, Fire Hazard Alan Hazelden James Parker Tammy Nicholls, Games Workshop Jerry Mickle Christos Reid Alice O’Connor, Rock Paper Shotgun Alex May Website: http://feral-vector.com Tickets: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/feral-vector-july-2014-tickets-11615768075

  • Come Out & Play Festival 2014

    New York City New York, United States

    Come Out & Play is a two-day festival of street games that turns New York City into a giant playground. From the website: After Dark – DUMBO, Brooklyn, July 18 from 7 PM to 10:30 PM. Each year After Dark turns the city streets in a particular neighborhood into an arcade with social party games,…

  • 72 Hour Interactions

    Unnamed Venue Witten, Germany

    From the website: "This summer, for the first time in the history of the Ruhr Area and for the first time in history in general, one city will become the home of a cultural experiment transferring architecture and urban interventions into the realm of game design and vice versa. Get ready for 72 HOUR INTERACTIONS…

  • Game Art Melbourne Exhibition

    E55 Basement 55, Elizabeth St,, Melbourne, Australia

    Game Art Exhibition - Melbourne Glitchmark is a Melbourne based playful arts community: an open maker group not specific to discipline. Though we have a focus on games, we are informed by all kinds of creative practice. The aim of Game Art Melbourne Exhibition is to showcase the visual art from and inspired by videogames made…

  • JOIN – 1st Local Multiplayer Summit

    Supermarkt Brunnenstrasse 64, Berlin, Germany

    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,…

  • GDC Europe 2014

    Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse Cologne, Germany

    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…

  • #1ReasontoBe Panel | GDC Europe 2014

    Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse Cologne, Germany

    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 2014

    Norra Sorgenfri Malmö, Sweden

    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 Screening NL

    't Hoogt Hoogt 4, Utrecht, Netherlands

    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.

  • Bumbercade 2014

    Seattle Center Seattle, United States

    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 2014

    Threadless 1260 W Madison Street, Chicago, United States

    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 2014

    Watershed Bristol, United Kingdom

    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,…

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