The festival organizers provide an outlook for the next four festivaldays that will be full of emotions and digital game culture. Following is a welcome by the partners: President of the Hamburg Parliament Carola Veit and the President of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) Thomas Krüger.

We also welcome the organizers of Indie Gameleon who finish their five-day festival for Indie Developers, Game Design Students and Games Enthusiasts this evening.

Subsequently, the exhibition will be opened at 8pm in the Alsterdamm School of Visual Arts and a very first look at selected works of digital games and media art can be thrown thrown.

In the last program of the evening, the inventor of video games and member of the band Fraktus Torsten Bage will have a look on the cultural and historical backgrounds of digital games. He also gives an insight into the work on his new game. The PLAY Show ist hosted by Uke Bosse.