Schedule
Thu 25 Mar
Flying to the Festival
Live Play Event | 15.00
Offering light-hearted escapism in a time where travel is restricted, and without the carbon footprint, you are invited to ‘take flight’ to the festival with a live event and discussion on what we need to have fun, all played out within Lebanese designer Hosni Auji’s Airplane Mode simulator.
Repurpose
Activity | Play Anytime
Game designers Amy Strike and Tom Williams invite you to join them on a meditative journey that begins within your home and leads you into the outside world. Delivering instructions and invitations through your phone, Repurpose is a self-guided micro adventure questioning how we consider and use objects in our surroundings.
Greener Games: One Studio’s Approach to Sustainability
Talk | 18.30
Now Play This join London-based games studio Space Ape to discuss how they achieved their goal of becoming a carbon negative company and to share their thoughts on how we too can be more sustainable.
Folk Game TikToks with Danny Hawk
Talk | 20.00
New York-based independent game developer Danny Hawk hosts a streamed talk exploring the emergence and explosion in popularity of folk games on the video sharing platform TikTok over the course of the pandemic.
Communal Festival Space designed by Tiz Creel + Festival Party
Activity | Available to access across the weekend
Tiz Creel, Mexican born and London based artist and game designer, presents a 2D-social space. Users can enjoy communal games, live events and a festival party all within a new digital work inspired by the festival line-up and architecture of Somerset House.
Fri 26 Mar
Climate Change Games and Research – An Open Exchange
Workshop | 13.00
Hosted by game designer and urban geographer Jana Wendler, this workshop brings together climate researchers and game designers for a frank exchange about the hopes, fears and realities of communicating scientific knowledge through games and changing perspectives in play.
World Climate Simulation
Live Play Event | 15.00
Independent, not-for-profit think-tank Climate Interactive present a live role-play simulation of UN climate change negotiations, where players can see the impact of their environmental decisions with live analysis from a digital modelling tool.
Among Ripples: Shallow Waters
Live Event | 17.00
Swedish development team Eat Create Sleep present a new eco-tycoon simulation in which players work together as a team of scientists to build, repair and maintain the delicate ecosystem of lakes and rivers in a near future setting.
Cards Against the Climate Crisis
Live Play Event | 18.30
Audiences are invited to join designers and activists in playing and discussing two board games, Ecologic and Carbon City Zero, both of which explore the climate crisis , from balancing extracting minerals from the landscape whilst offsetting damages, to developing a sustainable city.
Balance of the Planet
Activity | Play Anytime
You are invited to experience game designer Chris Crawford’s celebrated environmental crisis simulator, which was originally released for Earth Day 1990.