From the website http://www.theoverkill.nl/ The Overkill Festival is a 48 hours nonstop gaming and film event. On The Overkill, visitors are confronted with an ‘Overkill’ of popular culture multimedia, with a strong focus on movies, video and gaming. The transcending borders of these media and the corresponding subcultures evolving around them will get a special attention…
https://twitter.com/tigershungry/status/780723660298579969 How do the virtual worlds of videogames reflect and augment our reality? With VR headsets hitting the high street and augmented reality sending players hunting through their neighbourhoods 2016 has seen our virtual and physical worlds collide like never before. But what does it mean to design a virtual world? Come join us on Friday…
4-day event to explore interactive things with each other (originally a game jam). Get away from the daily life and join other developers/designers/makers/people for the 11th Exile at the old folk highschool Vallekilde, Denmark. After ten successful Exile Jams we have concluded that the world has enough game jams and that there are plenty of…
Over Game: Jeux Vidéo, les scenes alternatives. Game Exhibition Curator: Simon Bachelier This is an introduction to the alternative game scenes related to political/social/moral topic. Come play and watch indie games and interactive installations, but also participate in different interesting debates, documentary screening, conferences, live-playing performances and more... for free. This is also the first time…
One day of experimenting with creating alternative controllers for games. More info tba
The Global Game Jam® (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event (game creation) taking place around the world at physical locations. Register a site or join one of the jams around the world. There will be locations in over 90 different countries! http://globalgamejam.org/ If you're in the Netherlands: There are about 10 locations around NL…
Game Festival. The biggest professional game event in Switzerland returns for a third edition from January 26 to 28, 2017. With roughly 600 expected professionals from the game industry, Ludicious is the place to network and see great new games from emerging talents in our exhibition. Stay up do date by signing up for our newsletter. Three days…
Screenshake 2017 is the fifth edition of the only art festival in Belgium to showcase the video game medium, with a focus on independent or ‘indie’ games. These are often smaller, more personal and innovative games; think of them as the video game equivalent of arthouse films! http://www.screenshake.be/
Talk by Steven Johnson, author of "Wonderland : How Play Made the Modern World." Steven Johnson, the international best-selling author of How We Got To Now, whose TED talk has had over 1 million views, in a talk on innovation and the future of technology seen through the history of play: the subject of his…
We nodigen je van harte uit voor de eerste Playful Arts meetup op 15 februari 2017! Deel je projecten en gedachtes op het snijvlak van beeldende kunst, podiumkunst, playful design en sociale interactie met onze community tijdens onze playful arts meetups. Wat zijn playful arts? In 2017 willen we met informele avonden in Amsterdam en…
Gamefestival - Deurne, Belgium Op 25 en 26 februari stellen cc Deurne, CultuurConnect en Devillé Arcade een heuse, moderne ARCADEHAL voor in cc Deurne Rix. We lieten 7 spellen ontwikkelen, die focussen op samen spelen, het creatieve en het artistieke. En dat doen we met de nodige toeters en bellen. Een heel weekend lang kan…
From the website: Do you prefer your reality shaken or stirred? In conjunction with the annual Game Developers Conference, PlaySFMOMA presents a day-long “blended reality” pop-up arcade. Play a selection of avant-garde and experimental games that explore augmented, virtual, shared, fractured, blended, and otherwise mixed realities. This event not only presents emerging augmented and virtual…
IDGAF: Independently Developed Game Art Festival of 2017 The wonderful Chad Toprak of Hovergarden has put together a short selection of contemporary independent videogames for our interactive pleasure. These were all featured in this year's IGF, coincidentally. ? OPENING NIGHT THURSDAY 23rd ? Come and see games never before shown on Australian shores Also drink…
Evening in library De Krook in Ghent: the possibilities of videogames as form of culture. Waarom biedt de bibliotheek binnenkort videogames aan? Op deze avond verkennen we de mogelijkheden van videogames als cultuurvorm. Ontdek boeiende games over ernstige onderwerpen en denk mee hoe we ze kunnen inzetten om de wereld beter te maken. Tijdens deze…
CounterPlay is a tribute to and an exploration of the many ways, in which a more playful approach can help us live better lives. We focus on the excitement, intense engagement and rich experiences of people involved in all kinds of playful experiences. This sparks an investigation of how play can be transformative, change our…
Irish Game Maker Expo and Talks Info from FB: The State of Play is Ireland's premier Independant Game Maker Event hosted by the School of Media in the Dublin Institute of Technology, in conjuntion with IMIRT, the Irish Game Makers association. As usual we will have an exciting and ecclectic mix of Inspirational International &…
From the website: Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design, showcasing some of the most interesting games and playful work being made around the UK and the world. It will run for the third time at Somerset House in London from 7-9 April, 2017, as part of the London Games Festival. There’ll…
Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/games-for-cities-conference-tickets-31317310920 From the website: The Games for Cities programme is hosting the first international conference with leading ‘city-game’ design experts from around the world. Games for Cities is an initiative started by Play the City and partners, and aims to create a platform for knowledge exchange on games that have the potential to facilitate…
"A night of fantastic, raucous, beautiful games, mixed with drinks, music, and wonderful people. Join us on Friday 21st April as we turn The Caves in Edinburgh into an amazing, one-night-only combination of bar and indie arcade, full of incredible things." Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gamesareforeveryone-tickets-31598699561
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