PLAY16 – Creative Gaming Festival

PLAY16 Exhibition

This exhibition represents the core of all the PLAY16 exhibitions. It deals with “Bodies in Games” and “Bodies as Controller”, demonstrating the spectrum of the festival. Here, visitors can experience virtual reality and the history of the medium as well as inspiring installations.

Location

Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Dates

Thursday, 03.11.2016 12:00-23:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 12:00-23:00 Uhr
Saturday, 05.11.2016 10:00-20:00 Uhr
Sunday, 06.11.2016 12:00-18:00 Uhr

Offered for

classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families

Program

ABZÛ

by Giant Squid From the art director of Journey and Flower, ABZÛ is a beautiful underwater adventure that evokes the dream of diving. Players can immerse in a vibrant ocean world […]

Alexander Doggus

by Sam Klitsner Alexander Doggus is a wheelchair-bound old-timer who used to be the world’s greatest show dog. Jaded by his exuberant past, Alexander now cares only about his favorite tennis […]

Beyond Eyes

by Tiger & Squid Players help the blind protagonist to find a cat whom she befriended, but that disappeared one day. With the means of noises, smells and touching the environment, […]

Chariot Simulator

As part of the “Sensoria” project at the HAW Hamburg this prototype for a chariot simulator in VR was developed. A vibrating chariot and VR devices let players explore snowy ...

Closer

by Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan Closer is a cooperative game for two people: to start you must stand close together, and to succeed you must work together. Closer uses a […]

Codex Bash

by Alistair Aitcheson One physical space, four big buttons and codes to be cracked! Players have to decipher the on-screen clues and run around to bash the buttons in the […]

Colorena

by Miriam Komorek, Adam Michniewicz, Sven Dettmers, Bent Nürnberg Colorena is a team-sidescroller in which the players have to interact with each other to complete the game. The specially for the ...

Dark Room Sex Game

by Copenhagen Game Collective Dark Room Sex Game is a multiplayer audio game. Players see a black screen and the gameplay is based on sound and feeling. By finding a rythm […]

Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture

by The Chinese Room Deep within the Shropshire countryside, the village of Yaughton stands empty. Toys lie forgotten in the playground, the wind blows quarantine leaflets around the silent ...

FAR: Lone Sails

by Mr Whale’s Games Service and Mixtvision Under cloud filled skies, the player travels across the seemingly endless dried-up sea, littered with the remains of a once vibrant seafaring ...

FRU

by Through Games FRU is a puzzle platformer that features an innovative use of Kinect, in which the player’s silhouette becomes a “portal” between two worlds. Solving puzzles by ...

Future Unfolding

by Spaces of Play Future Unfolding is an action adventure where players can explore a forest filled with life, both beautiful and dangerous. The world is procedurally generated – each player will ...

Go! Button Power Team!

by Alistair Aitcheson Go! Button Power Team! lies halfway between digital game and real-world performance. The player must press colored buttons in the sequence shown on-screen. However, the ...

Human: Fall Flat

by No Brakes Games Human: Fall Flat is a quirky, open-ended physics-based puzzle and exploration game set in floating dreamscapes. The player’s goal is to escape these surreal dreams by ...

Kuti

by HAW Hamburg The Kutis arcades are a handmade consoles by students of the HAW Hamburg. You can play their self-made games with 1-6 players.

La discipline du rectangle

by One Life Remains La discipline du rectangle is a game about constraints for the player. The player is seen by a camera and his image is fed back to the screen, […]

Lost Ember

by Mooneye Studios Lost Ember shows players a world that has been completely conquered by nature. Only ruins show the remains of humanity’s culture. A wolf that possesses the power to ...

Magnetize Me

by Copenhagen Game Collective Magnetize me is a two player dancing game where one player is mounted with 4-5 Move Controllers and the other player with 2 magnets. One “blue” […]

Manege

by Dominik Krebs MANEGE gathers players around a table. The smartphone becomes the controller and connects virtual interaction with communication. It is inspired by classical arcade games and ...

Metrico+

by Digital Dreams Metrico+ is a new world. A living world of infographics, driven by the player’s input. All the bar charts, line diagrams and pie charts react to what the player […]

Of Bugs and Bubbles

by Kim Reichert This installation is an excerpt of a game developed for children on the autism spectrum. In its original version it tells the story of a small robot asking […]

ooooo

by polysoul ooooo is a virtual reality ascension through interdimensional spaces. Meant to be a dream-like journey, ooooo is designed to be experienced in a lying position. The game will show ...

Projekt Arrhythmia

by Lime Studios Project Arrhythmia is a rhythmic adventure in which all things beautiful are deadly. Players need to avoid the musically timed pulse of blocks and bars, and in […]

Rogue Legacy

by Cellar Door Games Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-“LITE” where anyone can be a hero. Each time a players dies, the child will continue, making the game equally difficult and ...

The Temple of No

by Crows Crows Crows The Temple of No is an interactive text adventure made with Twine. A short game full of references and hidden details. Lovely graphics and great soundeffects complement […]

The Unstoppables

by Gentle Troll Games The Unstoppables is a game about diversity. The friends Mai, Jan, Achim and Melissa have to find the lost dog Tofu. Although they are very different, […]

VRUniCORNER

by VRUnicorns #SelfieTennis is a simple game of tennis, where you play with or against yourself. Because playing with yourself is way easier than playing with someone else. On top […]