PLAY16 – Creative Gaming Festival

Timetable for Friday, November 4th 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: Design Your Own Character Dress	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: VR Do It Yourself	Bigpoint Drehbahn 48, 20345 Hamburg	classes, youth
10:00-18:00 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 2): Avatar or Human? Motion Capturing in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (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 V: The Role of Gender and Games in Media Education	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
13:00-14:30 Uhr	Conference Workshop VI: Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Games (English)	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
13:00-15:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 2: Drama for Games	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	youth, students, game designers
13:00-15:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 2: Urban Games: From computer to the streets	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers
13:30-17:00 Uhr	Excursion on Friday	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
15:30-17:00 Uhr	Conference Workshop VII: Bodies in Games in the Course of Time (English)	Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Steintorplatz, 20099 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers, academics, game designers
15:30-17:00 Uhr	Conference Workshop VIII: Diseases in Games	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	Further Education: Creative Gaming - Game design and media literacy in school	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	students, educators, teachers
16:00-18:00 Uhr	Workshop Level 2: Protagonists of Virtual Wars – Commander! Soldier! Civilian?	Zentralbibliothek Hühnerposten 1, 20097 Hamburg	students, academics, game designers
17:00 Uhr	Daedalic's Game Adaption of Ken Follett's Novel "The Pillars of the Earth" - Exclusive Preview (English)	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	youth, students, academics, game designers
18:00-19:00 Uhr	PLAY Show: Bodies in Games	Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ Klosterwall 15, 20095 Hamburg	classes, youth, students, educators, teachers, academics, 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
20:00-23:00 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

Conference Impulse (Day 2): Avatar or Human? Motion Capturing in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (English)

Avatar or human? Computer game figures have gone through a tremendous development process over the past decades. The trusted pixel look has been superseded by photorealism. With increasing ...

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Friday, 04.11.2016 11:00-12:30 Uhr

Conference Workshop V: The Role of Gender and Games in Media Education

“Zocken mit Sinn” (Gaming with mind) is a series of workshops for children and teenager, founded by the “infocafe” in order to develop a place for gamer and pedagogs to ...

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Friday, 04.11.2016 13:00-14:30 Uhr

Conference Workshop VI: Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Games (English)

The end of the 19th Century: Players embark on journeys of discovery and encounter native peoples and previously unknown tribes. With the September release of expedition simulation, Curious ...

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Friday, 04.11.2016 13:00-14:30 Uhr

Conference Workshop VII: Bodies in Games in the Course of Time (English)

How has the depiction of the body changed over the course of the history of video games? In this workshop Andreas Rauscher looks into this question and positions body depiction […]

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Friday, 04.11.2016 15:30-17:00 Uhr

Conference Workshop VIII: Diseases in Games

Location: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Friday, 04.11.2016 15:30-17:00 Uhr

Daedalic’s Game Adaption of Ken Follett’s Novel “The Pillars of the Earth” – Exclusive Preview (English)

The Creative Leaders of the adaption of the novel “The Pillars of the Earth”, Matthias Kempke and Kevin Mentz, show exclusive impressions of the new game, which will be released […]

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Friday, 04.11.2016 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 Friday

How do indie developers work and what does a TV channel look like that streams in the internet? On Friday, the excursion visits Rocketbeans TV and the indie developers from Osmotic, […]

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Friday, 04.11.2016 13:30-17:00 Uhr

Further Education: Creative Gaming – Game design and media literacy in school

How can digital media support learning processes in school? Which digital media are appropriate for a playful and media pedagogical use in class? How can one support a reflected and […]

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Friday, 04.11.2016 16:00-18:00 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: Bodies in Games

Pixel Look or Photorealism: What are the current technical trends that define how game figures are configured? How are bodies depicted in games and what roles do diversity, sexuality and […]

Location: Kunsthaus Hamburg // Festival HQ

Friday, 04.11.2016 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: Design Your Own Character Dress

Become the designer of your own character dress. If you ever wanted to become the hero yourself you will have the chance to do so and create your own costume […]

Location: Bigpoint

Friday, 04.11.2016 09:00-16:00 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: 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: Drama for Games

How does a story for a game occur? The participants learn how to approach developing a good story. First, we answer what one requires to write a story. Then we […]

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Friday, 04.11.2016 13:00-15:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 2: Protagonists of Virtual Wars – Commander! Soldier! Civilian?

Video games are often accused of trivializing war. The glorified battle against “forces of evil” is common for many shooters as is the reduction to strategic-tactical considerations ...

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Friday, 04.11.2016 16:00-18:00 Uhr

Workshop Level 2: Urban Games: From computer to the streets

The workshop “Urban Games: From computer to the streets” focuses on games and bodies – according to this year’s motto “Let’s get physical”. The ...

Location: Zentralbibliothek

Friday, 04.11.2016 13:00-15:00 Uhr