Talk & Play #44
2024-03-06 18:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | DE:HIVE, Slabystraße 12, Berlin, 12459, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event 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’ve got any interest in games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
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HOW IT WORKS
The event is made of 2 parts:

TALK: Game-related presentations + announcements from the community
PLAY: All participants are welcome to exhibit projects they’ve made

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AGENDA

18:00 Doors open, project showcase starts
19:30 to 20:30 Talks & community announcements
22:00 Event ends

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THE TALKS
Carolin Wendt: Managing a game community. How to get started & keep going
Carolin has recently published the book “Pocket Mentor to Game Community Management“. In this talk, she will go through some of the key takeaways, from the base pillars of community management, what to consider when creating a strategy, to making your spaces positive and inclusive to as many players as possible.
Carolin Wendt is a professional with more than nine years of games industry experience. She leads a team of international community managers at CD PROJEKT RED. In addition to a strong passion for games and learning about the most obscure things, she’s armed with a master’s degree in Political Science.
Happy Broccoli Games: How to make a commercial game – in 6 months – in 10 minutes
Making games is hard. Making games quickly is even harder. We will share our experiences creating & releasing Duck Detective in under a year!
Annika & Joni are co-conspirators at Happy Broccoli Games, a small indie studio based in Berlin. Working on whimsical narrative-focused games!
Leonie will be the host for this edition of Talk & Play.
There will be a section dedicated to short announcements from the community, get in touch to reserve a spot: info@berlingamescene.com — same goes if your company is hiring and you’d like to get a sponsored slot to announce your openings!
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THE SHOWCASE
These are the projects that will be shown during the evening:

Cozy Marbles by Tim Reiter
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami by Happy Broccoli Games
Echoes of Mora by Selkies Interactive
Hello Stranger by Sunny Miller
HexaNite Card Game by PhantoPaw
Hungry to Bed by Bugs and Bunnies Studios
Intersection by Intersection
Marshmallow Mystery by GRIPS Theater / GRIPS Werke e.V.
Mops & Mobs: A Sweeping Dungeon Novel by RAT KING
MUKKE by APETENSE Interactive
Passing By – A Tailwind Journey by Studio Windsocke
Santa’s Secret – A Chrome Steele Mystery by Small Loan Studio
Tipping Pigs by Jascha Schmitz

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ADDITIONAL INFO
Are you attending the event for the first time, or are you coming on your own? The Talk & Play Ambassadors will be there to assist and answers any questions you have.
Our Safe Space Policy (http://berlingamescene.com/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 by Julian Dasgupta (https://www.flickr.com/photos/12601747@N00/albums). For those who don’t want to be appear in any pictures, we’re going to distribute stickers at the door to wear and signal this.
Alcoholic drinks will not be sold or allowed to be consumed during the event.
The event is free to attend, but donations are welcome. We usually pass around a donation box after the talks.
DE:HIVE is an accessible venue. Feel free to contact us about your access requirements.
Get in touch if you have any questions: info@berlingamescene.com

Godot Engine Show & Tell
2024-03-22 19:00 - 22:00 | Individual Network Berlin e.V., Lehrter Str. 53, Berlin, 10557, Germany
We were invited by the Berlin Creators, which also host a Retro Gaming meetup twice a month, to have our meetup together with them.
It will happen at a new location: ⚠️ Berlin Creators / Individual Network Berlin, Lehrter Str. 53, 10557 Berlin-Moabit
We will give them a short talk about getting started with Godot in German in the main room. Afterwards we will have a Show & Tell sessions there, so they can see some variety of things you can do with Godot.
So it would be very awesome if you could bring something to show or tell about, even if you already showed it in a previous meet-up! 🚀
Afterwards we can use their separated meeting room, which also has a projector, to continue our meet-up or just mingle with the Berlin Creators / Retro Game Enthusiasts.
This event will be a cosy Show & Tell for Game Creators of all trades and those aspiring to become one. 🌱🌳
More info about this event at https://www.meetup.com/godot-user-group-berlin/events/299940166

Talk & Play #45
2024-04-24 18:30 - 22:30 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event 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’ve got any interest in games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
Registrations will open exactly 2 weeks before the event, at 11am Berlin time. RSVP and find all other info on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/berlingamescene/events/299812367/

Radical Playgrounds Opening Weekend
2024-04-27 - 2024-04-29 | Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Radical Playgrounds arrives at the Gropius Bau parking plot for eleven weeks like an itinerant or a temporary funfair.
It merges a sculpture park with a maze, adds a skywalk, a display on the history of playgrounds and activism, and ongoing performative workshops. A range of artworks will tackle the healing potential of collective play, creating a public space that addresses both adults and children, and shifts focus from competition to collaboration.The artistic positions include a Maya-inspired pyramid by Edgar Calel, a skate ramp developed by Florentina Holzinger, and Céline Condorelli’s large-scale playing field “Play for Today”, which looks at gender equality in sports. In a performance piece by Massimo Furlan, two performer re-enact the 1974 World Cup match between East and West Germany on the border strip where the Berlin Wall once stood.
For the opening, Radical Playgrounds invites you to experience walk-throughs, talks and performances with the artists present. Families are very welcome at Radical Playgrounds!
More info at berlinerfestspiele.de/en/programm/2024/radical-playgrounds/performances/eroeffnung

Core Talks: From Scratch To Scale
2024-05-07 18:00 - 22:00 | Atelier Rooftop, Prinzenstraße 84.2, Berlin, 10969, Germany
If you’re up for insightful game development talks, a chance to connect and share knowledge and enjoy an evening with fellow game industry professionals (over food and drinks, of course), this event is for you!
We are Metacore, one of Supercell’s portfolio companies, and we recently opened an office in Berlin. To toast the new chapter in our journey, we decided to bring our signature event, Core Talks, from Helsinki to Berlin – and yes, you are invited 🤩
Core Talks events are all about insightful industry talks, knowledge-sharing and casual networking in a relaxed setting. This time, we have a stellar speaker line-up covering two different panel talks: first one focuses on new game development, and the second one on live game operations.
Join us on May 7 at Atelier Rooftop in Kreuzberg! We open the doors at 6 PM.
Come for the talks, come for a beer and a bite; come alone or with an industry friend!
More info at metacore-games.confetti.events/core-talks-berlin

A MAZE. / Berlin 2024
2024-05-08 - 2024-05-12 | Silent Green, Gerichtstraße 35, Berlin, 13347, Germany
A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival focusing on arthouse games and playful media.
A MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2024 for the 13th time, bringing together the worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. From May 08-11th 2024 the international Games and Playful Media Festival will take place in Silent Green and Panke Club (Berlin Wedding) and includes a hybride component that connects the physical festival programme with the A MAZE. / SPACE.
A MAZE. / Berlin invites artists and creatives from diverse fields to share their vision and projects, exchange knowledge, play, connect, and collaborate. A MAZE. / Berlin represents and celebrates the new art movement, made up of arthouse games, artistic virtual reality, and a playful media culture beyond the mainstream.

Fachkonferenz: „Werte ins Spiel bringen“
2024-06-05 09:30 - 18:00 | Villa Elisabeth, Invalidenstraße 3, 10115, Germany
Am 5. Juni 2024 veranstalten wir die Fachkonferenz „Werte ins Spiel bringen“ in der Villa Elisabeth in Berlin. Die Konferenz findet im Rahmen des zweijährigen Modellprojekts „Games und Wertebildung“ statt und richtet sich an Vertreter*innen aus Zivilgesellschaft und Integrationsarbeit sowie Wissenschaft, Medien und Games-Entwicklung. Ziel der Konferenz ist es, die Ergebnisse und Erfahrungen aus dem Projekt einer breiten Fachöffentlichkeit vorzustellen und einen fruchtbaren Austausch zwischen verschiedenen Disziplinen und Akteur*innen anzuregen. Neben Keynotes und einer Panel-Diskussion stehen Austauschformate und Workshops im Mittelpunkt der Veranstaltung.
Find out more at stiftung-digitale-spielekultur.de/fachkonferenz-werte-ins-spiel-bringen/

Talk & Play #46
2024-06-05 18:30 - 22:30 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event 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’ve got any interest in games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
Registrations will open exactly 2 weeks before the event, at 11am Berlin time. RSVP and find all other info on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/berlingamescene/events/299812394/

Talk & Play #47
2024-09-18 18:30 - 22:30 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event 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’ve got any interest in games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
Registrations will open exactly 2 weeks before the event, at 11am Berlin time. RSVP and find all other info on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/berlingamescene/events/299812408/

Talk & Play #48
2024-11-13 18:30 - 22:30 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
Talk & Play is a free event 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’ve got any interest in games, we’ll make sure you have a good time! This is NOT an event only aimed at developers.
Registrations will open exactly 2 weeks before the event, at 11am Berlin time. RSVP and find all other info on Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/berlingamescene/events/299812414/

Games Ground 2024
2024-11-14 - 2024-11-17 | Alte Münze, Molkenmarkt 2, Berlin, 10179, Germany
As a flagship event for Berlin, Games Ground will be a valuable gaming convention, covering all facets of gaming culture and industry both in terms of content and interdisciplinary approaches. Games Ground brings consumers and the industry together for a constructive exchange on an equal footing. In addition to important B2B content such as business insights, career opportunities, and education, the event focuses on the content and interests of the gaming community. The diverse range of formats on offer demonstrates the diversity of the industry and makes Games Ground the platform for all gaming enthusiasts.
Tickets will go on sale on May 1.
More info at gamesground.de
