Talk & Play is a free event, taking place every two months, that provides the opportunity to game enthusiasts, players and makers to meet and exchange knowledge in a friendly, relaxed and safe environment. 

Everybody’s welcome, regardless of their background and knowledge level: if you like games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! Important: this is NOT an event only aimed at developers.

Important: RSVP via Meetup is mandatory to attend the talks, due to limited seating capacity. Registrations will open on Tuesday, November 22th at 14:00 CET (Berlin time). Please note that registration won’t be required to attend the event from 21:00 for the game showcase part.

HOW IT WORKS

The event is structured in two parts:

— TALK: A series of short game-related presentations

— PLAY: All participants are welcome to bring games they’ve made or are still working on so that the audience can play them – a perfect opportunity to discover and play new games, collect feedback and, who knows?, maybe find collaborators for future projects.

THE TALKS

Allan Cudicio: Was Luigi Gay?
As an intersection between media and technology, video-games are increasingly becoming part of the mainstream. Just as in films and books, LGBT diversity in video-games is turning from a nice conversation to a wider debate. How has game development dealt with Queer characters and themes in the past? How are things changing?
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Allan Cudicio is Game Designer at King. Previously involved in the business side of software development, he has now switched to full time design of mobile games.
https://de.linkedin.com/in/allancudicio // @ilcudi

Jana Reinhardt: SOLITUDE
How visiting a shepherding contest resulted in a personal game with sheeple.
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Jana Reinhardt is 1/2 of game development studio Rat King.
https://ratking.itch.io/solitude // @RottenHedgehog

Linda Kerkhoff: Girls Make Games – Recap of the First Workshop in Berlin
We organized a one day workshop where we taught middle school aged girls about making games. Everything from game design, concepting, and programming. The talk will be about the organization of the event, how the event went, and discuss feedback and lessons learned that we’ll take to future events.
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Linda is working as an engineer in Berlin’s games industry since 2013 and helped organising the first Girls Make Games workshop in Berlin.
http://blog.wooga.com/post/153336499448/girls-make-games-workshop-at-wooga // @LyraHolunder

THE GAMES

Here’s the list of confirmed games that will be shown during the second part of the evening, from 21:00:

— All Walls Must Fall by inbetweengames
— CARIBO by CACHET
— DYO by Team DYO
— Hasty Melons by Minitrope
— Hubert’s Hideout by Team Omelette
— MOMENTUM by Team NeonChameleon
— Monster Garden by Zack Wood
— PippiPilots by David Smit
— Pirates of the Stormy Sea by PURGlab
— Planet Elysia TD by Mad Hats Assembly
— pong and a keyboard by Sven Ahlgrimm
— RotoRing by Gregory Kogos
— SOLITUDE by Rat King
— Stars of Icarus by Crunchy Leaf Games
— The Fermi Paradox by Jörg Reisig
— Tumbling Home by Tristan Dahl
— Unforeseen Incidents by Backwoods Entertainment
— Vei – The Trail of Life by Keenfox Studios

Game showcase registrations are now closed. If your game is not on the list above you’re still welcome to bring it, but we can’t guarantee there will be space to show it – please check with a member of the team from 21:00.

AGENDA

— 19:00 Doors (if you come earlier you’ll have to wait outside, as we need to prepare the venue)

— 19:30 Talks start

— 21:00 Game showcase & networking: play games and chat with their creators, or just hang around and meet new people

— 23:00 The end aka “Gone Home”

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Our Safe Space Policy encourages the behaviour at Talk & Play. We request that everyone who is affiliated with and participates to the event honours it.

Besides recording the talks (thank you Iwan!),  we’re also documenting the game showcase part in pictures (thank you Julian!) and vines (thank you Nomi!). Documentation is important for us, as it helps promote the event and attract a new, wider and more diverse audience (that’s how it worked so far at least). For those who’d like to attend, but don’t want to be appear in any pictures or videos, we’re going to distribute some neon stickers at the door that you can wear on your chest to make it clear that you don’t want to appear in any picture or video.

The event is free to attend.

FINAL NOTES

Do you have any questions? Would you like to give a talk in the future? Then get in touch!

Talk & Play is organised by BerlinGameScene.com with the promotional and technical support of the monthly Berlin Mini Game Jam and A MAZE.