EGX Rezzed 2015 - video games event. Playable pre-release games on both PC and console (with a greater focus on indie titles), developer sessions by well known game designers and the opportunity to chat with developers on the show floor. Special interest: Leftfield Collection, selection of experimental games: Aerobat by Matthew Yeager Aviary Attorney by…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
"Three nights of experimental games and theatre" Website: https://www.cptheatre.co.uk/production/beta-public-vi/ Poster design by Musbuh
This year, our festival of writerly games will be happening in London, England, in a no less esteemed place than the British Library. According to the Wikipedia entry, it’s the largest library in the world and included in their collection of 170,000,000 items is the manuscript copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (which was later published as…
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…
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…
What does it mean to create a virtual world? This one day international conference will bring together leading designers, thinkers and players who are creating entirely new worlds and communities in videogames. https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/Elb1YGqV/parallel-worlds-designing-alternative-realities
"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 fourth time at Somerset House in London from 6-8 April, 2018, as part of the London Games Festival." http://nowplaythis.net/
Parallels highlights some of the most unique, experimental, and personal games being made in the independent games scenes of Australia and beyond. Come and watch as our speakers demonstrate and play their creations live on stage, and share their creative inspirations and journeys. Discover new games and game makers, and find out what makes them…
Parallel Worlds, the V&A’s conference dedicated to videogame design and culture, will be back in London for more critical conversations on Friday 25 January 2019, in conjunction with the V&A’s headline autumn exhibition ‘Videogames: Design / Play / Disrupt’. This day long international conference brings together talks from leading game designers, artists, engineers and thinkers…
Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design which runs at Somerset House in London as part of London Games Festival. In 2019 we expect the festival to run over two weekends 6-14 April, with talks and workshops for practitioners on the first weekend, and more family-focused events on the second.
"Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design running at Somerset House in London from 3-5 April 2020, showcasing interactive and playful work as part of the London Games Festival." "In 2020 we'll be looking at games that relate to our theme of 'Breaking Point' - games are the aesthetic forms of systems,…
Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design and playful art running at Somerset House in London, showcasing interactive and playful work as part of the London Games Festival. This year, Now Play This presents Folk Games: The Stories We Play Together — we’ll be exploring how communities get together to create, reinterpret,…
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