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Bongo Controllers

Christina Kutscher — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:01:21 +0000

The workshop “Bongo Controller” lets particpants modify almost everything into a controller.

The computer is a handy device – but its controlling has become predictable. With space you make a blank space, by clicking right you choose objects, with C you make a C and so on. We know all that. So imagine you could control the computer with bananas, by making a high five, petting your cat, jumping into a bucket of water. The possibilities are nearly endless.

The aim of this workshop is to create own controllers with absurd, funny and unique ideas and diverse materials. With these controllers, the participants can play different games.

ComputerSpielSchule Hamburg

Christina Kutscher — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:36:25 +0000

The ComputerSpielSchule Hamburg (Hamburg ComputerGameSchool) was established in 2015 and is a regular and open media educational offer on locations in the libraries of Hamburg that change every half year. Here gaming-worlds can be experienced intergenerational and joint. The ComputerSpielSchule Hamburg addresses adolescents from 5th grade up and adults. Apart from the regular offers holiday workshops and single day workshops concerning topics all around games are being organised.

At the Family Day the ComputerSpielSchule (short CSH) will offer various stations. Visitors can gain insights in the project and experience hands on how school days at the CSH can be. Children, adolescents and families can use a stamp card, which acts as a guide through the CSH, which will be located at the Kunsthaus. For everyone who manages to complete the stamp card, there will be a small prize.

Station 1: “The Gamesbar”
This station allows visitors to not only play the games shown in the PLAY16 exhibition, but also CSH games on Wii U and Playstation 4. Besides games that challenge players to move, there will be classics like Mario Kart.

Station 2: “Let’s Play!”
This station from the CSH shows participants how to produce a Let’s Play video. Of course, there will be members of the CSH to explain how it is done and there will be lots of gaming.

Station 3: “1 Game 3 Questions”
This very first station of the CSH allows first reflections on the game and will be in cooperation with the PLAY16 exhibition. After playing a game, participants will answer three questions about it – it’s that simple.

Station 4: “Game description”
The advanced version of “1 Game 3 Questions” asks participants to answer various questions of the game while playing it, in order to write a detailed description of it in the end.

Joker 1: Live Let’s PLAY16
Once an hour there will be a Live Let’s Play that omits the recording and features the player, who plays and comments live in front of an audience.

Joker 2: GameGame
The GameGame is a simple yet effective way to learn more about game design. A small group can gather and create a concept for a game. The elements and challenges can be diverse and in the end the potential publishers have to persuaded.

Das Narrenschiff – Verhandlung einer Utopie

Christina Kutscher — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 07:00:47 +0000

Assuming theater is game, it is defined by rules and played by actors and spectators. Assuming theater is game, the rehearsal work means development of latitude and rules that evolve a conflict – staging of an experimental setup. Assuming theater is game, the premier would be the first trial, every following performance a repetition of the same game whose course and ending are open at the beginning of the game.

Assuming theater is game, “visiting the theater” means to have acted within the obliviousness of the game and to leave with the experiences of one’s own actions. Assuming theater is a protected space of action that enables the proving of utopias.

Is the reconciliation with myself an antisocial condition?

During the performance you can always enter or leave the playing field.

Direction: Kathia von Roth
Play: Judith Goldberg, Isabella Golinski, Agnes Jaworek, Rabea Lübbe, Laura Schuller, Alina Weber
Space: Torben Spieker
Costume: Julia Simmen
Oeil extérieur: Miko Hucko
Lighting: Daniel Kalinke
Assistance: Jil Lahr
Techical Realization: tele:kollektiv
Production Support: Benjamin Sohrt
Video und Bild: Dennis Poser

PLAY Lab

Christina Kutscher — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 09:53:35 +0000

The PLAY Lab invites game designer from different areas to develop a game in only a few days. While doing so, PLAY visitors can watch them and experience how a game is brought to life – beginning with an idea and leading up to the finished game.

Closure: Coffee and Games

vera marie — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 10:20:57 +0000

Creating games things

Christina Kutscher — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 16:58:54 +0000

Are your headphones always tangled? Do you need a pocket for your smartphone? Fear no longer! This workshop shows you how to create such things that are useful and creative accessories for gaming.

This event will take place at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.

Fun without boundaries (?)

Christina Kutscher — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 17:09:38 +0000

What has inclusion to do with PLAY16? Can all people move through virtual worlds without boundaries? The JAM! Jugendbeirat asks questions like these during PLAY16 and invites everyone to think about how unlimited virtual reality really is. JAM! finds new ways, phantasizes and explains about inclusion in and with games.

This event will take place at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg.