PLAY16 – Creative Gaming Festival

Timetable for Thursday, November 3rd 2016


09:00-16:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 1: Be my Eyes - Blind Let's Play	Bigpoint Drehbahn 48, 20345 Hamburg	classes, youth
09:00-16:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 1: Bongo Controllers	Bigpoint Drehbahn 48, 20345 Hamburg	classes, youth
09:00-16:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 1: Building	Bigpoint Drehbahn 48, 20345 Hamburg	classes, youth
09:00-16:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 1: Game Video	Bigpoint Drehbahn 48, 20345 Hamburg	classes, youth
09:00-16:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 1: RPGs in one Day	Bigpoint Drehbahn 48, 20345 Hamburg	classes, youth
09:00-16:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 1: VR Do It Yourself	Bigpoint Drehbahn 48, 20345 Hamburg	classes, youth
10:00-21:00 Uhr	Game Culture Hamburg	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families
11:00-12:30 Uhr	Conference Impulse (Day 1): Players and Characters - The Role of Bodies in Gaming (English)	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
11:00-19:00 Uhr	TWO / ZERO / ONE - A Connected Escape Game	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers, game designers, families
11:00-19:00 Uhr	Unseen Diplomacy	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers, game designers, families
11:00-19:00 Uhr	Virtual Reality and Body	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers, game designers, families
12:00-23:00 Uhr	PLAY Lab	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families
12:00-23:00 Uhr	PLAY16 Exhibition	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families
13:00-14:30 Uhr	Conference Workshop I: Game Accessibility	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
13:00-14:30 Uhr	Conference Workshop II: Gaming Interfaces Beyond WASD (English)	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
13:00-15:00 Uhr	Further Education: Computergame analysis for teacher - from selection to approach	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers
13:00-15:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 1: Crash Course Let's Play	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics
13:30-17:00 Uhr	Excursion on Thursday	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
15:30-17:00 Uhr	Conference Workshop III: Prospects and Challenges of Virtual and Augmented Reality (English)	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
15:30-17:00 Uhr	Conference Workshop IV: A Media Educational View on Games and Theater	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
16:00-20:00 Uhr	Das Narrenschiff - Verhandlung einer Utopie	Gängeviertel MOM art space, Valentinskamp 34a Eingang über die Brache Speckstrasse, 20355 Hamburg	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
16:00-18:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 2: Game Design	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	youth, students, game designers
16:00-18:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 2: Locomotion in VR (Movement in VR)	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg
17:00 Uhr	Inside PLAY Lab (English)	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families
18:00-19:00 Uhr	PLAY Show: The Players' Bodies	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families
20:00 Uhr	"Mir ist übel, muss das so sein?" - The History of Virtual Reality from Shutter glasses to Virtual Boy	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	youth, students, game designers, families
20:00 Uhr	Die beste aller Welten	Haus 73 Schulterblatt 73, 20357 Hamburg	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families
21:30-23:00 Uhr	PLAY Together	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
	Exhibitions	Kunsthaus, Zentralbibliothek, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers, families

“Mir ist übel, muss das so sein?” – The History of Virtual Reality from Shutter glasses to Virtual Boy

Gunnar Lott and Christian Schmidt, known from their podcast Stay Forever, go on a vivid and entertaining expedition to explore the history of virtual reality. The show will be in German.

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Thursday, 03.11.2016 20:00 Uhr

Conference Impulse (Day 1): Players and Characters – The Role of Bodies in Gaming (English)

How are game figures controlled? This clearly with a controller, mouse or keyboard; however, no figure moves without us, the players. In a very real sense we enter into the […]

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Thursday, 03.11.2016 11:00-12:30 Uhr

Conference Workshop I: Game Accessibility

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Thursday, 03.11.2016 13:00-14:30 Uhr

Conference Workshop II: Gaming Interfaces Beyond WASD (English)

Why do we always play sitting down? What game control possibilities exist beyond game pads and WASD? With “Urban Invention” Amelie Künzler and Sandro Engel have adopted an unusual approach […]

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Thursday, 03.11.2016 13:00-14:30 Uhr

Conference Workshop III: Prospects and Challenges of Virtual and Augmented Reality (English)

With the release of devices like the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift, the previously quite exclusive worlds of virtual and augmented reality became available to the wide public. Game developers ...

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Thursday, 03.11.2016 15:30-17:00 Uhr

Conference Workshop IV: A Media Educational View on Games and Theater

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Thursday, 03.11.2016 15:30-17:00 Uhr

Das Narrenschiff – Verhandlung einer Utopie

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 […]

Location: Gängeviertel

Thursday, 03.11.2016 16:00-20:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 16:00-20:00 Uhr
Saturday, 05.11.2016 14:00-18:00 Uhr
Sunday, 06.11.2016 14:00-18:00 Uhr

Excursion on Thursday

The excursion on Thursday visits Daedalic, a game developer from Hamburg. With Deponia and many other games from different genres they are successful worldwide. Afterwards, we will visit the ...

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Thursday, 03.11.2016 13:30-17:00 Uhr

Further Education: Computergame analysis for teacher – from selection to approach

“Computer games in class?”, “Sure! But how?” If you use games in class the big question is: How can that work? This workshop will provide answers and offer practical ...

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Thursday, 03.11.2016 13:00-15:00 Uhr

Inside PLAY Lab (English)

The PLAY Lab invites game designers from different countries and various backgrounds to develop a game in only a few days. We bring them up on stage and talk about their professional […]

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Thursday, 03.11.2016 17:00 Uhr

PLAY Lab

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 […]

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Thursday, 03.11.2016 12:00-23:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 12:00-23:00 Uhr
Saturday, 05.11.2016 10:00-19:00 Uhr
Sunday, 06.11.2016 12:00-18:00 Uhr

PLAY Show: The Players’ Bodies

How do we control game figures? Why do we almost always play games sitting down and what is the ultimate virtual reality (VR) experience? What about game accessibility? We will […]

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Thursday, 03.11.2016 18:00-19:00 Uhr

PLAY Together

What’s the best way to end an eventful day at PLAY16? By playing together at the Festival HQ! On Thursday and Friday evening the Festival HQ in the Kunsthaus will […]

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Thursday, 03.11.2016 21:30-23:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 20:00-23:00 Uhr

TWO / ZERO / ONE – A Connected Escape Game

by Gamestorm Berlin Welcome and thank you for your interest in our latest experimental facility! We always aim to reach our goals by all means necessary and push the boundaries […]

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Thursday, 03.11.2016 11:00-19:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 11:00-19:00 Uhr
Saturday, 05.11.2016 11:00-19:00 Uhr

Unseen Diplomacy

by Triangular Pixels Unseen Diplomacy casts the player as an elite member of The British Espionage Tactical Initiative, defeating the plans of evil-doers around the world. With a real-life ...

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Thursday, 03.11.2016 11:00-19:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 11:00-19:00 Uhr
Saturday, 05.11.2016 11:00-19:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 1: Be my Eyes – Blind Let’s Play

Everybody knows Let’s Plays. Gamer play games, film themselves and comment the scenes live. These videos are uploaded to Youtube and other similar platforms and watched by thousands of ...

Location: Bigpoint

Thursday, 03.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 1: Bongo Controllers

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 ...

Location: Bigpoint

Thursday, 03.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 1: Building

Here you can recreate gaming worlds and game objects and stage them with cardboard, wood and colors in the best possible way. The tomahawk on a scale of 1:1 is […]

Location: Bigpoint

Thursday, 03.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 1: Crash Course Let’s Play

This workshop introduces the participants to Let’s Play – what are these videos that seem to be increasingly popular among young people and why are they so fascinating? The workshop ...

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Thursday, 03.11.2016 13:00-15:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 1: Game Video

How about imitating the visual appearences of computer games in a short film? In this workshops you can shoot a short film with cameras and special effects, which use the […]

Location: Bigpoint

Thursday, 03.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 1: RPGs in one Day

Create your own RPG (role-playing game) with the RPG Maker. Write a story, design your hero with evolving abilities, build levels and maps, design quests and enemies.

Location: Bigpoint

Thursday, 03.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 1: VR Do It Yourself

Virtual Reality is everywhere, thanks to Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and Playstation VR. However, those devices are also quiete expensive. VR is easier with self-made boxes like these, in which […]

Location: Bigpoint

Thursday, 03.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr
Friday, 04.11.2016 09:00-16:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 2: Game Design

In this workshop the participants get to know about different approaches and basic concepts in game design. Providing a tangible example, they face character design as well as the game […]

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Thursday, 03.11.2016 16:00-18:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 2: Locomotion in VR (Movement in VR)

Movement in virtual reality is one of the many problems regarding this new medium. Thus, many creative approaches are needed. This workshop investigates status quo of locomotion in VR and […]

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Thursday, 03.11.2016 16:00-18:00 Uhr