PLAY18 » Workshops

Let’s Play, seriously!

vera marie — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 23:14:15 +0000

Let’s Plays have become a very popular form of entertainment, with which Let’s Players like Gronkh, Paluten or GermanLetsPlay can reach millions of people.

The commented game sequences not only allow to present the games, but also to prove one’s skill.

Let’s Plays can also offer a platform to address political or cultural topics, for instance with Serious Games.

In this workshop, participants can learn the basics of Let’s Playing, play numerous games with political content, and record their own Let’s Plays.

Minetest Hero Theatre

vera marie — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 12:44:01 +0000

Use “Minetest”, the open source version of “Minecraft”, to invent an unjust world and play heroes on the digital stage to defeat the injustice!

In this workshop you learn how to tell meaningful stories, how to build characters and worlds, how to produce animation movies within games and what superpowers may hide inside of you.

Radical Game Design with Bitsy

vera marie — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 09:23:17 +0000

Note: This workshop is held in English and German!

“I have good news for you!” – Telling Positive News Through Games

Christiane — Sun, 16 Sep 2018 09:19:38 +0000

Back in the times, everything was better! Contrary to the felt trend that the world is coming to an end, a lot of good things happen, such as higher life expectancy, decreasing child mortality rate or technologies like electric cars, that are good for humankind and environment alike. Together we will conceptualize games about these and other good news, which give hope and get us excited about the future.

Character Design: Game Characters of Tomorrow

vera marie — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 14:53:40 +0000

Which heroines and heroes are needed for tomorrow’s computer games? What traits and abilities do they have to have to save our world? And above all: What do they look like? In this workshop the participants learn how a character design is created. Afterwards they can work on their own figures and bring them to life with paper and pen.

No previous knowledge required! If you prefer to work digitally, you can bring a drawing tablet and a laptop.

Interactive Storytelling: Rewrite the Future

vera marie — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:25:25 +0000

According to this year’s topic “Ready Game Change – Create a New Tomorrow”, this workshop is about “speculative fiction”. Participants become authors of interactive texts about the world of the day after tomorrow.

They work with an existing draft, hack the story of a possible future and re-write it. Hence, participants gain insights in game mechanics and game writing with the open source software “Twine”.

No prior knowledge is required. Adolescents as well as adults can participate.

Level Design: Playfully Travel to Tanzania

vera marie — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:54:29 +0000

In the game app “Kawaida’s Journey” you have to master numerous challenges by jump and run and at the same time explore Tanzania. The serious game was developed participatively as a cooperation project between German and Tanzanian software developers, game designers, musicians and non-profit associations. In a playful way it wants to build a creative bridge between Germany/Tanzania and promote a differentiated view of the African continent.

At this Workshop the makers behind “Kawaida’s Journey” let you take a look behind the scenes of their game app. During the practical media workshop, participants can try out for themselves how level design works hands-on by modifying one level with the open source level editor “Tiled Map Editor”. In the end all participants will get their changed levels to continue playing.

re:PLAY and re:ACT – Strategies of Play in the Productions of Rimini Protokoll

vera marie — Mon, 01 Oct 2018 09:21:59 +0000

Tomorrowland: Game Design with Bloxels

vera marie — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:49:42 +0000

From the Beginning of Work and the City of the Future – a World of Play

vera marie — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 07:31:21 +0000

Cities and especially their centers are built around the idea of work. Let’s assume it’s ending soon. How will the cityscape be changed by our new acts?

After a short perfomative input the participants of this workshop will develop and test an idea for a city game, which draws the future into the present.