Game Seminar http://www.dfi.dk/Branche_og_stoette/Creative-Europe-Desk/Aktiviteter/Play-for-Real/Programme.aspx PLAY FOR REAL Games are getting real. Games are often considered – and can well be – lighthearted entertainment happily detached from our everyday life. But as games grow as a medium for all and with more diverse developers behind them, games also starts to reflect a wider variety of emotions and start…
"Flagship festival featuring indie games from around the world, our annual award show celebrating the winners, and a three-day conference in beautiful Culver City, California. October 22-25, 2015. IndieCade is dedicated to the discovery, development and recognition of independent artists and developers from around the world. Their mission is to encourage, promote and cultivate innovation and artistry…
Tenth edition of the GameCity festival in Nottingham (UK). http://gamecity.org/festival
Game showcase http://www.acmi.net.au/live-events/talks-performances/parallels-the-freeplay-2015-showcase/ From the artsy, to the weird, to the provocative, to the punk. For over ten years, the Freeplay Independent Games Festival has been exploring these vital margins of game culture in Australia, from bedroom coders and artists exploring the possibilities of games, to game culture’s punk rockers and agitators. Returning after the…
http://zoomachines.com/ 10 special guests will present their innovative projects, initiatives and approaches in arts, games, production and distribution. It's all about sharing new ways to create digital games, to impulse creativity and to inspire you! Zoo Machines is also a super-duper Game Jam! You will develop and build incredible new game experiences. Crazy controllers, amazing…
Beta Public - three curated nights of videogames and performance. Play through a menu of the weirdest and most wonderful videogames, watch a selection of performances, and witness a world-first experiment in merging the live and digital worlds! Engaging performances and talks from exciting and provocative artists. Beta Public is about: New videogames and performance.…
A Scratch Night Of Play - Curated by William Drew for Coney Coney return to Camden People's Theatre to present another evening of playing theatre. We’ll again be presenting short pieces and works-in-progress that invite the audience to play (in some way or other) either in the theatre or elsewhere in the building: standing up,…
International Competition/ Workshops / Conference More tba
Screenshake 2016 is the fourth edition of Belgium's only international indie game festival and takes place February 19-21 at Het Bos, Antwerp. Support the festival via their IndieGoGo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/screenshake-2016-indie-game-festival--2#/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XryQDGy0pTs
Event about games and play. More info tba. See 2015 event: http://nowplaythis.net/2015
The Art of Play: A day with masterclasses for creative professionals interested in a playful perspective. Theme: Stimulate the Senses Tickets https://the-art-of-play-2016-masterclasses.eventbrite.nl Location: De Verkeerstoren, Amsterdam (NL) Design, discuss and explore concepts focused on playful, sensory and interactive experiences using sound, wearables or immersive space. Join our extraordinary experts in the masterclasses and play &…
EGX Rezzed will return to London's Tobacco Dock on the 7th to 9th April 2016.
Game conference In each of its past years, Different Games has worked to foster diversity and inclusivity in games by amplifying the creative and critical voices of marginalized participants in games culture. Geared towards accessibility and radical inclusivity, the annual volunteer-led conference welcomes panels, workshops and playable games from presenters of all professional backgrounds and levels…
Electronic Music Festival FAQ Festival collaboration with Playful Arts Festival for the Saturday night line-up mixing music and visual/ playful arts. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/244900439177969/ Website: http://www.faqfestival.nl/?cat=18 Music: Aardvarck x Steven de Peven (Rednose Distrikt) Legowelt Elias Mazian Awanto3 (Rushhour, Dekmantel) Spatial Collective Benn Rogue Sugarbelly Playful Arts: Flowtools by Matthias Oostrik Soundodger+ - Studio Bean Maze of the…
International festival and community that brings together a diverse group of professionals to cultivate a more playful world. http://www.counterplay.org/counterplay-16/
After five sellout dates at CPT, Beta Public returns to programme four late nights of the wildest and weirdest crossover experiments in theatre and videogames. Expect artist-led Let’s Plays, audience-driven adventures, talks from cutting-edge game developers, and much, much more! Investigating a different theme each night, Beta Public Presents the newest work at the intersection of…
"A MAZE. / Berlin turns 5! A birthday special you don't wanna miss." - Thorsten S. Wiedemann, Artistic Director and Founder of A MAZE. A MAZE. / Berlin brings together international independent game developers, digital creatives and game enthusiast in Berlin. A MAZE. / Berlin is also a public festival with an mind-blowing music lineup,…
Join us for three days of talks, panels, workshops, exhibits, and games throughout the museum, curated from IndieCade’s diverse and brilliant community of designers, thinkers, and players. The conference is complemented by workshops covering a range of topics, from introductions to popular digital gamemaking tools to hands-on game design lessons. IndieCade East will include the…
Feral Vector is a festival about making games and gamelike things. Feral Vector has workshops, talks, interviews, live games, Q&As, performances, walks, 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. This is…
A one day event where we will explore playful arts that are still in development. More info soon.
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