GameZone

From the sketch to the game – WORKSHOP for kids (from 12 years onwards)

You want to develop your own computer game? Then you are right here! Patrick Münster, academic employee of the HdM, shows you how to implement your playing idea simply. After the workshop, you can play your new game directly with your friends. Free of charge, max. 15 participants, registration for the Kids Workshop
GameZone: p.muenster@dadracodesign.de

Thu, May 4, Kunstgebäude, 2 pm – 6 pm

Talks

Edutain Me 3.0: The panel is aimed at educators and focuses on digital games between activation and reality. In cooperation with the Landesanstalt für Kommunikation Baden-Württemberg.
Thu, May 4, Kunstgebäude, 4 – 6 pm

Playful Art – Games & Aesthetics: The topic of the panel is the connection of games aesthetics and animation. This offers new perspectives for game developers, creatives and games fans. With the speakers:

• Tobias Bilgeri (Black Pants, Berlin)
• Mareike Ottrand (Fizbin, University of Hamburg, Hamburg)
• David O’Reilly (Los Angeles) and many more

Fri, May 5, Kunstgebäude, 11 am – 1 pm

Meaningful Games – Games & Politics: The panel covers the political potential of computer games and how they can open critical views on issues such as the monitoring state, war, flight and migration. The speakers are:

• Ju Row Farr (Blast Theory, Brighton) with the game project “Karen”, Big Data and psychological profiling
• Pawel Miechowski (11bit studios, Warsaw) with “This War of Mine” – Gibt es Anti-Kriegs-Spiele?
• Marco Williams (Gigantic Mechanic, New York) with “The Migrant Trail” – “In Your Skin” concepts in the political context
• Michel Wacker (Gentle Troll Entertainment, Würzburg)

Fri, May 5, Kunstgebäude, 2:30 pm – 5 pm

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Let’s Player

Robin Blase (NerdScope) am Sun, May 7

• Let’s Play Talk: Gaming on YouTube – tips & ideas for creative content for creator & developer
  Kunstgebäude / Kuppelsaal, 3 pm
• Meet & Greet – signing session & play on the GameZone
  Kunstgebäude / Kuppelsaal, 3:30 – 5 pm
• Presentation of the Game Jam
  Kunstgebäude / Seitenlichtsaal, 5 – 5:30 pm
• Let’s Play Event on the Open Air
  Open Air, 7 pm

Games & installations to join in

Long March: Restart // Feng Mengbo, computer game, 2008
The 16-meter-long video installation of the Chinese artist Feng Mengbo can be found in the dome of the Kunstgebäude. In the persiflage on the heroes myth of the “Long March”, you control a soldier of the Red Army through all of China. In cooperation with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe.

Playful Art: Digital games are one of the most multifaceted media at all, their design possibilities are endless. Here you can find cross-border games between video game and animation film.

Meaningful Games: Computer games can be political media. The combination of game and politics can be experienced at “This War of Mine” or “The Migrant Trail”.

//////////fur//// – Art Entertainment Interfaces: The artist duo //////////fur//// develops machines, which are a mixture of media criticism and apparatus parody. You can test their “PainStation” in the GameZone.

GameZone Talents

Four universities show the newly developed games of their students. Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg’s Animationsinstitut brings along its AniPlay projects: As “Dreammakers” you create dreams for two in the laboratory. In the virtual reality experience “Heart of the Forest – Light up your Soul” you fill the forest with light and sound. The Institute for Games of the Stuttgart Media University presents games for mobile, PC and VR. Walk on the moon, find out what happened with “Elena” and save the kittens. The Trickfilmklasse of School of Art and Design Kassel presents games for console, mobile, VR and online: In “Where’s Joe” you are a giant, in “Ghost Catcher” you can be spirit or ghost hunters. The “Games” section of Zurich University of the Arts shows prototypes and (almost) finished games: here you can meet cyclops (“Monocular”), drive a curiosity vehicle or defend a castle.

GameZone Kids at the Festival Garden – Admission Free!

Opening Hours:

Tue. – Fri.: 2 – 8 pm
Sat. + Sun.: 12 noon – 8 pm

In the GameZone Kids, which is supervised by the ComputerSpielSchule and the Stuttgarter Jugendhaus Gesellschaft, children and young people can daily discover the gaming world and play together. From tournaments to workshops exciting activities take place daily. It’s worth to have a look!