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, January 3rd 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

Ed Biden: Head of State Post Mortem: Braving the App Store as an Indie
Detailed numbers from the first four months of Head of State on the App Store, the story of how we got there, and the lessons we learned along the way.
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Ed Biden is a full time product guy and part time indie developer. He launched Head of State in 2016, which went on to be a top 10 paid game in multiple countries. Previously he was a Product Lead at Wooga in Berlin and Kobojo in Paris.
https://edbiden.wordpress.com

Daniel Ziegener: Reviews as Games
Writing a game review can be a creative process, too.
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Daniel is a freelance games journalist from Berlin.
https://superlevel.de // @sofakissen

Katharina Muske: Urban Cowboiz – Wild Boys on London’s Streets
URBAN COWBOIZ is a satirical endless runner about a strong distinctive trend to express yourself in a young urban culture and the riding culture of Irish & English Traveller. How does that fit? A talk about the conceptional process behind Urban Cowboiz.
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Katharina Muske is an interactive media concept developer and artist. She always combines different fields of media to create digital experiences that leave a lasting impression.
http://kat.bplaced.net // http://urbancowboiz.com

Melanie Fritsch & Florian Berger: Researching Games Barcamp: Games + Science = <3
Melanie and Florian of the organising team want to get you all excited about the upcoming 6th annual researching games BarCamp, a crossover gathering of researchers and developers, to be held in Berlin in April 2017.
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Melanie Fritsch is a Berlin-based researcher, writing her PhD thesis in the field of Ludomusicology (Game music research).
Florian Berger is a developer and researcher from Berlin, writing his PhD thesis on adaptive educational games.
http://researchinggames.net // @researchingames

There are no more slots available for this event, but get in touch if you’d like to make a short announcement to the audience or give a talk in the future.

THE GAMES

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

— AGameHasNoName by Agnes Lison, Marcel-André Casasola Merkle & TheCodingMonkeys
— All Walls Must Fall by inbetweengames /
— Am-Bi by Gregory Kogos & Eyal Stern
— CARIBO by C.P.Lippert
— Cocktail Mafia by Waterman7
— Fermi Paradox by Jörg Reisig
— Gunz N’ Carz & Rock N’ Roll by Oleksandr “.koval” Kovalchuk
— Head of State by Ed, Rebecca & Ewa
— Lingotopia by Tristan
— Lipola by Christian Greitmann, Katharina Muske
— Phoning Home by ION LANDS
— Pirates of the Stormy Sea by PURGlab
— Pół na pół by DeFunc Art
— RotoRing by Gregory Kogos
— Runic Rampage by Alexander Leps
— Stars of Icarus by Crunchy Leaf Games
— Urban Cowboiz by Katharina Muske, Christian Greitmann
— Vei – The Trail of Life by Keenfox Studios
— Welcome Above by Framefield

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 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.