Important: RSVP via Meetup is mandatory to attend the talks, due to limited seating capacity. Please note that registration won’t be required to attend the event from 21:00 for the game showcase part.  

Talk & Play is a free event, taking place every two months, that provides the opportunity to game enthusiasts, players and makers to meet 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! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.

HOW IT WORKS

The event is structured in two parts:

— TALK: Short game-related presentations + announcements from the community

— 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

This will be the last Talk & Play of 2017, and since it’s been a long and hard year for many people, we thought about doing something a bit different for once: we want to have a series of short talks (5 minutes long or less), all about something positive (and game-related) that happened to you in 2017.

Krishna Israney: Zelda got me back to Exploring
Systems in Zelda that afford exploration and their impact on the player.
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Krishna is a designer, animator and a part-time foodie.
@indieus

Sjors Houkes: Please, leave this Meetup
Why are you still here? For the sake of games, please stop talking. Stop playing. Leave now.
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Whatever you might think Sjors does, it’s probably something else: some say its voice acting, others say he’s a watercolour artist, or a sculptor, some even claim they have seen him run events at the Game Science Center. But who really knows.
http://www.sjorshoukes.nl // @bekokstover

Nomi: Scrambleshake17 DEMO – how we did not organise this egg’n’chill parasitic community event
I’ll talk about what is scrambleshake and our missions (?) very quickly and conduct a super quick demo version of the event
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Nomi makes videos!!!!!
http://www.thenomi.com // @the_nomi

Troy Duguid:_D_E_C_E_N_T_R_A_L_I_Z_E_!_!_
Discoveries on alternative methods for game development OR how i learned to stop caring and love the hive mind.
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Troy Duguid is an artist using game engines to create interactive 3D experiences. Troy is also a member of the collective aaartgames, who recently released their latest interactive anthology datamutations.aaartgames.xyz. Troy also likes long walks on the beach and sunsets.
http://troyduguid.com // @troyduguid

Mascha​ ​Camino: How​ ​a​ ​joke​ ​actually​ ​payed​ ​off
It’s​ ​about​ ​how​ ​a​ ​girl​ ​feared​ ​the​ ​big​ ​city​ ​Berlin​ ​and​ ​its​ ​community,​ ​but​ ​being​ ​positively surprised​ ​by​ ​the​ ​open​ ​arms​ ​of​ ​the​ ​Berlin​ ​game​ ​scene. And​ ​learning​ ​that​ ​if​ ​you’re​ ​just​ ​interested​ ​and​ ​invest​ ​some​ ​of​ ​your​ ​time​ ​to​ ​actually​ ​talk​ ​with people​ ​it​ ​can​ ​pay​ ​off​ ​a​ ​lot!
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20​ ​year​ ​young​ ​Game​ ​Design​ ​student​ ​at​ ​the​ ​UE​ ​Germany,​ ​former​ ​BTK. Co​-organizer​ ​of​ ​the​ ​Femisphere​ ​event​ ​and​ ​Civic​ ​Game​ ​Jam.​ ​Two​ ​parts​ ​programming​ ​plus art​ ​and​ ​another​ ​two​ ​parts​ ​of​ ​spontaneous​ ​problem​ ​solving.
‪@MaschaCamino‬ 

THE GAMES

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

— Chrono Nihilism by Ljubica Jovanovic
— Daedalus Hold by Oliver Rösner
— Data Mutations by aaartgames
— DYO by Team DYO
— FLUX by Yannic Hungerbühler
— Lingotopia by Tristan
— Monster Garden by Zack Wood
— Neon Overdrive by Ronja & Viktor
— Oddinary Highway by Dash & Dot game studio
— Say No! More by Marius Winter, Nick Maierhöfer, Bin-Han To
— Scuttlebots – Battle Tournament by Casual Chamfers
— Sternkind by Dennis Kurzeja
— Stormy by Wolfgang Kriener
— Super Meat Ball by Marlene Brüggemann und Dean Jürges
— The Fermi Paradox by Jörg Reisig
— Through the Darkest of Times by Paintbucket Games
— Unforeseen Incidents by Backwoods Entertainment
— ZipZipBoom by Wolfgang Siebert

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.

Our event is documented in pictures (thank you Julian!) and videos (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, but donations are welcome. BerlinGameScene.com supporter packs (featuring an exclusive tote bag, badges, stickers, a Steam key of a game made in Berlin and a Game Science Center coupon) are also available for purchase at Game Science Center. Buying one really helps us!

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.