PLAY15 » Programm

The art of mixing an interactive medium with the visual style of a movie is entering new ground: Directing, acting and producing machinimas can be done by a one man […]

Location: Metropolis Kino

Wednesday, 16.09.2015 19:00-20:00 Uhr

Among The Sleep

Krillbite Studios, Norway (2014) Among the Sleep is a first person horror, in which you play as a two year old child. After being awoken abruptly by some mysterious sounds, you […]

Arctic Solitude

Steven Kaule, Germany (2015) Alone and strandet in the cold, you can’t stay at the warm fire forever. Find a way to escape the nothingness, orient yourself with flags and […]

Blocked In

Daniel Ernst, Netherlands (2013) Blocked in is the first in a sequence of diorama’s: For a moment you are going to step into a world in which time has no […]

Can a video game make you cry? (Felix Schröter)

This talk will be in German.

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Friday, 18.09.2015 13:30-15:30 Uhr

Das System Computerspiel aufbrechen (Andreas Hedrich)

This talk will be in German.

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Thursday, 17.09.2015 13:30-15:30 Uhr

Der grosse Gottlieb

Daniel Ernst, Netherlands (2014) Der grosse Gottlieb is the second in a sequence of diorama’s: This one places the visitor on the tower of chairs of the greatest acrobat that […]

Digitale Spiele in analogen Systemen (Dr. Judith Ackermann)

This talk will be in German.

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Thursday, 17.09.2015 10:30-12:30 Uhr

Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald

Jack de Quidt, William Pugh & Dominik Johann, UK + Deutschland (2015) Tigers can be a problem. You’ve got options here. You could dive into the bushes and try and […]

Duel 42

Jonas Hansen, Germany (2015) Duel 42 is about two men fighting a gentleman like duel on screen while the player’s hands engage in a wrestling match to press the right […]

Endless Express

Florian Veltman, Alexandre Taillefert, Felix Meunier and Martin Grugger, France (2015) You fell asleep in a train and find yourself in an unknown train station. Try to get home, be […]

Escape the Room Games

“Escape the Room” Games are a trend, coming from Japan via Hungary to Europe and are, since about a year now, finally a thing in Germany too. In those real […]

Location: Alsterdamm

Friday, 18.09.2015 15:00-16:00 Uhr

Explosive Gefahr 3 – The Red Shadow Returns!

A temporarily escape the room game inside a container The Red Shadow is returned and Hamburg is in danger again! Will he finally succeed to bring apart space and time […]

Location: (Deutsch) Container auf dem Heiligengeistfeld

Wednesday, 16.09.2015 10:00-19:00 Uhr
Thursday, 17.09.2015 10:00-19:00 Uhr
Friday, 18.09.2015 10:00-19:00 Uhr
Saturday, 19.09.2015 10:00-18:00 Uhr

Forever

Flex Roman, Loïc Perillier and Pol Clarissou, France (2015) Forever is endless cashiering. A surrealistic melancholic job simulator made in 28 hours on the theme Strawberry Fields Forever. The ...

Game inspired mosaics

Paula Eick, Deutschland (2015) This detailed mosaics are made by the Artist “Einfach Paula”. Grown up in the age of tetris, video games inspired her art. In the PLAY15 exhibition two ...

Game inspired paintings

Lina Wischnewski, Germany (2015) Mario Series- Acryl on Canvas- 50×100 cm - Fanart, inspired by the excelent “Mario” series . Fans will notice some of their most beloved games! Zelda […]

Gamedesign als Systemdesign (Stefan Wacker)

This workshop will be in German.

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Thursday, 17.09.2015 13:30-15:30 Uhr

Gamestour | Friday| HAW Hamburg

On Friday, you can catch a glimpse into the informatic studies at HAW Hamburg. You can even get hands on, and experience four parts of a bigger project in the […]

Location: Gamestour | Friday| HAW Hamburg

Friday, 18.09.2015 14:00-15:30 Uhr

Gamestour | Thursday | Bytrolabs and Rocketbeans

Thursday, we have a look at Bytrolabs.The studio developes mobile and browserbased onlinegames like Thirty Kingdoms and Industry Tycoon. Who acutally works in such a studio? How long does it take ...

Location: Gamestour | Thursday | Bytrolabs and Rocketbeans

Thursday, 17.09.2015 14:00-17:00 Uhr

Gamestour | Wednesday| SAE und Daedalic

On Wednesday, we will visit the SAE-Institut,where you can study everything for audiovisual media and games. After a tour through the gamedevelopment department, participants can even start ...

Location: Gamestour | Wednesday| SAE und Daedalic

Wednesday, 16.09.2015 14:00-17:00 Uhr

Gang Beasts

Boneloaf, UK (2015) Gang Beasts is a silly local multiplayer party game with doughy ragdoll physics and horrific environmental hazards. Boneloaf is a small independant game studio currently ...

Goku I & II

Janis Vernier, Germany (2014 – 15) The GOKU Games are classical Point’n’Click Adventures with the twist of the player being stuck in a looping daily routine. Captured on an ...

HH.indie_treff

Right now, a very established and colorful scene of indie-gamedevelopers call Hamburg their home. In two PLAY Plauderecken, these indies present themselfes and their games in mad speed. Organized ...

Location: Alsterdamm

Wednesday, 16.09.2015 15:00-16:00 Uhr
Thursday, 17.09.2015 15:00-16:00 Uhr

Hot Date

George Batchelor, England (2015) Hot Date fulfills unexpected needs: speed dating with dogs. “Dim the lights. Light candles. A romantic evening awaits. An evening of speed dating.” After the ...

How are you, Mario? (Prof. Dr. Martin V. Butz und Fabian Schrodt)

How are you, Mario? - Emotions and Artifical Intelligence in Video Games What is the role of emotions in artificial intelligence? In this workshop the Chair of Cognitive Modelling at […]

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Friday, 18.09.2015 10:30-12:30 Uhr

Hueman

Valentin Scheiner, Germany (2015) Classic puzzle platformer, which will drive everyone nuts. Players have to reach the end of each level, withoug being seen by the all seeing eye. Luckily, […]

Hurt Me Plenty

Robert Yang, USA (2014) Hurt Me Plenty is a short game where you spank the heck out of a dude and learn about how BDSM communities attempt to formalize consent […]

Jolly Jousting

Elitza Todorova, Marvin Podsendek and Raphael Polte, Germany (2015) Jolly Jousting is an interactive medieval event in which two valiant knights may duel for honor and glory. These knights, ...

Keynote “Digital Games as Systems” (Aki Järvinen)

What characterises a digital game? How can you approach this medium properly? And to what extent is a digital game a system? In the keynote “Digital Games as Systems” Aki Järvinen, […]

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Thursday, 17.09.2015 09:30 Uhr

LEVEL1

An interactive play in the Medienbunker.

Location: Alsterdamm

Friday, 18.09.2015 19:00 Uhr
Saturday, 19.09.2015 15:00 Uhr

Life is Short

Florian Veltman and Baptiste Portefaix, France (2015) From the first words to the last – Everything turns so fast. Experience the key moments of life in a bunch of seconds.

Life is Strange? – Panel discussion with Raoul Barbet and Michel Koch (DONTNOD Entertainment)

The second day of PLAY Conference will be opened with an exclusive panel discussion with game directors of Life is Strange, an episodic graphic adventure and one of this year’s […]

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Friday, 18.09.2015 09:30-10:30 Uhr

Line Wobbler

Robin Baumgarten, UK (2015) Line Wobbler is a one-dimensional dungeon crawler game with a unique wobble controller made out of an upside-down shoe tree and a several meter long ultrabright […]

Live Let’s Play op Platt

Sorry, this entry is only available in German.

Location: Ohnsorg Theater

Wednesday, 16.09.2015 19:00 Uhr
Thursday, 17.09.2015 19:00 Uhr

Lucid

Carina Anziger, Philip Sonnleitner, Dominik Winter, Bianca Zankl, Florian Peinsold, Austria (2015), Lucid is a 3D platformer with strong narration and the support of an eye-tracker, which ...

Lumino City

State of Play Games, UK (2014) Lumino City is a handmade puzzle adventure game. By exploring the city, and using your ingenuity piece together all sorts of puzzling mechanisms to […]

Mimics

Navel, Germany (2015) Mimics is a team-based, local multiplayer party game about making a fool of oneself in front of friends and family and watch them do the same. Players […]

Nominees Most Innovative Newcomer Game

The Most Innovative Newcomer Game Award is endowed with 1500€ and a one year long support by Kai Fiebig from Daedalic Entertainment. The trophy money is sponsored by BIU – Bundesverband ...

offɭine

Pol Clarissou with main soundscape by NAWKSH, Frankreich (2015) A short unending daydreaming experienc.

Opening Night

The opening of PLAY15 will take place high above the rooftops of Hamburg. The festival organizers provide an outlook for the next four festivaldays that will be full of emotions […]

Location: Terrace Hill

Tuesday, 15.09.2015 19:00 Uhr

Orwell

Osmotic Studios, Germany (tba) Orwell is an interactive thriller about digital surveillance in which the player takes on the role of the watcher. As a new investigator in the governmental […]

Outcasted

Outcasted is a Serious Game and shows the world from the perspective of a homeless man. In the streets of a small town different challenges need to be mastered to […]

Passion or addiction? (Rune Kristian Lundedal Nielsen)

Passion or addiction? - Game addiction in a framework of love Video game addiction is a growing research field around the world, but what does it mean to be addicted […]

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Friday, 18.09.2015 13:30-15:30 Uhr

PLAY at Night

Since August 2014, the artists of 8 Pauli are rocking the Bar Nouar in Hamburg. And recently Hamburgs first Chiptuneparty moved to the Goldener Salon (Hafenklang). Chiptunes is not a musical ...

Location: Terrace Hill

Wednesday, 16.09.2015 21:00 Uhr
Thursday, 17.09.2015 21:00 Uhr
Friday, 18.09.2015 21:00 Uhr

Playing with feelings. Emotions and digital games

Not only films can bring us close to tears. Digital games as well can trigger emotions. More and more computer games tell emotional stories and make us angry, sad or […]

Location: Terrace Hill

Friday, 18.09.2015 16:30-18:00 Uhr

Poetry Slam

Slammers from near and far present playful poetry, all centered around the theme digital games. One evening long the poets let you get a glimpse of their adventures and memories of […]

Location: Nachtasyl

Thursday, 17.09.2015 19:00 Uhr

Politische Systeme in digitalen Spielen (Dr. Ralf Nemetschek & Silke Zimmermann)

This talk will be in German.

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Thursday, 17.09.2015 10:30-12:30 Uhr

Powerdrive 2000

Megacom Games, Canada (tba) An arcade racer set in the year 2000…the future! Get behind the wheel of a technologically advanced space-age sports car and tear it up as you battle […]

Push Me Pull You

Push Me Pull You is a four-player videogame about friendship and wrestling. Joined at the waist, you and your partner share a single worm-like body and must wrestle the other […]

Realistic Kissing Simulator

Jimmy Andrews and Loren Schmid, USA (2014) The hard facts of french-kissing are taught in this co-op game. With the Realistic Kissing Simulator, developed by Jimmy Andrews and Loren Schmidt, […]

Signalis 2

Barbara Wittmann and Alexander Zwerger, Germany (2015) Strandet on an frightening and alien planet, a lonly robot searches for help. A top-down survival horror in pixels.

Sisyfox

Urban Intervention, Germany (2015) The greek mythology describes Sisyphos as a clever and with wisdom blessed king of Korinth, son of Aeolus. Instead for good, he used his talents for […]

Sputnik Eyes

Shelly Alon, Germany (2015) A puzzle game that will take you on a journey across space. Help the little Eyes to scan and explore each planet on the way. The […]

Supersample – Pixels at an Exhibition

At the special exhibition “Supersample”, over 20 artists and illustrators show their visions of their favorite games. Pac Man, Donkey Kong, Galaga and Legend of Zelda – on ...

Tengami

nyamnyam, UK (2014) Tengami leads you on an atmospheric journey through a virtual pop-up book. The scenery of a fairytale, Japan from an earlier period raises many puzzles and mysteries […]

The Deer God

The Deer God is an atmospheric survival platformer with a randomly generated 3D pixel world. Explore a vast and gorgeous land, teeming with life of all kinds: rabbits, foxes, wolves, […]

The fabulous Creative Gaming Show

The midday show of our machinima-cinema features professional productions, game culture, and creations developed in workshops of the Initiative Creative Gaming. Those movies where done by ...

Location: Metropolis Kino

Thursday, 17.09.2015 14:00-15:00 Uhr

Saturday, 19.09.2015 15:00-16:00 Uhr

Wahrnehmen oder Handeln? (Christian Huberts)

This talk will be in German.

Location: Handelskammer InnovationsCampus

Friday, 18.09.2015 10:30-12:30 Uhr

Whateverland – Art Exploration mobile VR app

Sara Lisa Vogl, Germany (2015) Whateverland is a virtual art gallery, where artists can digitize and physicalize their creations with a 3D scanner and seamlessly integrate into the game world. ...