Virtual Reality is a thing again! The story which started around 1930 and had a high in the late 80s, does now promise a complete virtualization in a this time good looking world. What are the technologies, what problems do we face and what possibilities exist? The VR-Nerds present a glimpse from the future of now!

“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 life Point’n’Click adventures, a group of people get’s locked up in a real room, from which they have to escape with clever combinations and puzzle solving to experience the story.

At PLAY, EtR-developers take a seat, present themselfes and their games, discuss ideas or perspectives and will for sure give the one or other hint.

Meet:
Christian from Gamestorm Berlin
Christian from Team Break Out Hamburg
Philip from Big Break Hamburg
Simon from Team Escape Hamburg

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 by Indie-Treff Hamburg.

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 laugh. Figures from computer games are complex characters that can, beside running and shooting, feel. But how do they show their feelings? What do the players feel? And can digital games be controlled by emotions?

Uke Bosse and Felix Schröter (Universität Hamburg) discuss whether a computer game can make us cry and the culture scientist Christian Huberts shows us during a walk through GTA V, that the way we experience a game depends on how we play it. Fabian Schrodt (Universität Tübingen) shows us that the plumber Mario has feelings and Rune Kristian Lundedal Nielsen (DK) explains what the term “ludophil” means.

The PLAY Show will be backed by Krachkisten Orchester. The PLAY Show will partially be in English.