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Global Game Jam Berlin 2020 @ SAE
2020-01-31 - 2020-02-03 | SAE Institute Berlin, Cuvrystraße 4, Berlin, 10997, Germany
Global Game Jam is an international hands-on Game Festival which takes place in over 450 cities world wide on just one weekend. The participants will produce experimental computer games which will be uploaded to the main GGJ website at the end of the weekend. From there everyone can download and play the games.
Global Game Jam is a wonderful opportunity for participants to expand their horizons, challenge themselves, and meet new people. Right away you will start developing a playable game with strangers who share the same passion as you in just two days. At the end you are tired but happy.
Global Game Jam Berlin is open to everyone who wants to create digital games, board games or physical games in 48 hours.

Game Creators Hangout
2019-01-03 20:00 - 23:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Berlin, Berlin, Germany
(English version below)
Es ist Zeit für einen Game Creators Hangout !
Der Game Creators Hangout ist ein Ort, an dem sich Spieleschaffende treffen, um über Spiele, das Leben und das Universum zu sinieren.
Bisher nur über Facebook organisiert, haben wir auch endlich den Weg auf meetup gefunden. Eingeladen ist jeder, der sich mit Spielen und Spieleentwicklung auseinandersetzt oder auseinandersetzen will.
Da das Meltdown Berlin leider geschlossen hat wechselt der Veranstaltungsort jeden Monat.
Der Hangout wird vom Gamestorm Berlin ( http://www.gamestormberlin.de ) und dem Mini Jam Berlin koorganisiert.
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It is time for a Game Creators Hangout !
The GCH is a Place, where Game Creators meet to discuss everything from their craft to the universe.
Up until now we only organized it via facebook, but we finally found our way onto meetup. Every Game Creator and all who are interested in Games are of course welcome to join us.
As the Meltdown has unfortunately closed, the venue changes every month for now.
The Hangout is a co-organization between the Gamestorm Berlin ( http://www.gamestormberlin.de ) and the Berlin Mini-Jam

Scope Sessions #89 — AAA Collective / A MAZE.
2020-02-13 18:30 - 22:00 | SomoS, Kottbusser Damm 95, Berlin, Berlin, 10967, Germany
Scope Sessions – artist talks & media salon edition #89 at SomoS Gallery in Kreuzberg.
Thursday 13th February, 2020
Doors open at 18:30
Talks start at 19:00 *SHARP*
Donations welcome!
Where:
SomoS, Kottbusser Damm 95, 1.OG, 10967 Berlin
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AAA Collective
https://aaasoftwa.re
<< AAA Collective and their Utopias >>
AAA is an art collective that uses video-game engines, web technologies, performance and lectures as part of their creative practice. Since 2015, they have been curating aaartgames, a public community event at Spektrum Berlin with a focus on investigating how video-games, virtual worlds and experimental CGI intersect with art and culture.
Their recent work includes projects “Utopias: Navigating Without Coordinates”, a video game network of nine worlds; “Data Mutations”, a collection of data that can be transmuted and re-arranged with ease; “Dystropicana”, a digital multimedia archipelago, and many more.
AAA collective will talk about their activities, how and why they work together and will discuss their latest project Utopias: Navigating Without Coordinates.
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A MAZE
http://www.amaze-berlin.de
#arthousegames #playfulmedia #postivechaos #punksofthedigitalage #AMaze2020
Thorsten S. Wiedemann is a founder and artistic director of A MAZE. Under this international label he produces and curates festivals, exhibitions and workshops on the intersection of games, digital arts and playful media.
With “A MAZE. / Berlin” and “A MAZE. / Johannesburg (until 2017)” Thorsten created two annual festivals to present independent and alternative games culture and to connect Europe, Africa and the world. He also generates new controversial formats (e.g. A MAZE. Magazine, A MAZE. Pop-ups, A MAZE. Train Jam South Africa) and gives room for experimentation, collaboration and exchange. In addition, Thorsten established since 2012 the A MAZE. Awards, which goes to artistic and groundbreaking works in six categories.
His focus is on the interdisciplinary and diverse discourse about art-forms of the 21. century. He gains to fill the gaps between playful media, art and technology. Thorsten is also the first VR Naut and spent during his Disconnected performance 48hrs without break in virtual reality! He lives and works in Berlin.
A MAZE. / Berlin description:
A MAZE. / Berlin is an international festival focusing on the art and culture of games and playful media. A MAZE. / Berlin invites creatives from over 40 countries to experience inspiring talks and workshops, and to celebrate the art of video games making. The four nights of music, plus a life changing and mind blowing interactive exhibition of our medium of the 21st century, will fascinate the general public.
A MAZE. 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, including arthouse games, artistic virtual reality, and a playful media culture beyond the mainstream that defines its own identity.

Peace Game Jam #2
2020-03-06 19:00 - 2020-03-07 22:00 | UE – University of Applied Sciences Europe, Dessauer Str. 3-5, Berlin, 10963, Germany
The peace game jam’s goal is to develop games with a focus on peace.
The jam will bring together everyone interested in peacebuilding, activism and making games. It will expand the ways that games can be used to create positive impact. Show the world that games are not only about killing each other! Make games that create new ways of interaction.
Friday the 6th of March is the Introduction Day. We will have short talks and a introduction to the jamming itself with useful tips and tricks you can use during the jam. Our doors will open around 7pm.
Saturday the 7th is the actual Jam Day, we will have a small kick-off and then you’re ready to jam! You will have the whole day from 10am till 8pm. After that we will collect all the great games you made. Each group can present, what they accomplished during the jam.
Join us by filling out this form:
http://bit.ly/PGJ2020
We’ll provide you with more detailed information in the following weeks.
We are going to have a safe space policy, which has 0 harassment toleration. We want to assure a great experience for everyone.
Read the full policy here: https://bit.ly/2NFuRTe
Our policy is highly inspired by the belingamescene.com policy :)
Hope to see you guys soon!
-Team Peace Jam

Talk & Play #41 — CANCELLED
2020-03-24 19:00 - 23:00 | Game Science Center, Besselstrasse 14, Berlin, 10969, Germany
Talk & Play #41 has been cancelled!
If you’ve been following the news lately, this announcement won’t be a surprise: we’ve decided to cancel Talk & Play #41 (originally scheduled to take place on March 24th, 2020), due to the coronavirus. We believe this is the most sensible thing to do, based on the information currently available — it just doesn’t make sense to put anyone at risk. We plan to resume the event in May, assuming it will be safe to do it then. Make sure to join our Meetup group if you’d like to receive a notification once a new event is announced. Take care!

RSVP via Meetup is mandatory to attend the talks, due to limited seating capacity. 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.
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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 exhibit games and projects they’ve made
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AGENDA
— 19:00 Doors
— 19:30 Talks, project pitches & community announcements
— 21:00 Project showcase & networking
— 23:00 The end
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THE TALKS
Talks will be announced a couple of weeks before the event.
As usual, there will also be a section dedicated to short announcements from the community – get in touch to reserve a spot: http://berlingamescene.com/contact/
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THE SHOWCASE
Would you like to exhibit your game (or game-related project, such as a tool, or book) during the second part of the event? Then fill this form: http://bit.ly/talkandplaygames — places are limited so the sooner you do it, the better.
All types of games (and game-related projects) are welcome, both digital and analog/physical, regardless of the current status (released, unreleased, prototype…) and the people behind it (company, students, hobbyists…).
Registrations will close a week before the event, or earlier if there are no more spots left. We can usually show around 20 projects, and we have a smaller separate room that works well for VR.
We can provide tables, chairs, power strips and internet connection — that means that all the rest (devices, chargers, controllers…) are up to you. If your project has sound, we recommend bringing a pair of headphones for the attendees to use, as the room gets quite noisy.
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ADDITIONAL INFO
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 or videos, we’re going to distribute some stickers at the door to wear and signal this.
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 you from 21:00, and answers any questions you have.
The event is free to attend, but donations are welcome. We usually pass around a donation box after the talks.
Get in touch if you have any questions: http://berlingamescene.com/contact/

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2020-10-28 - 2020-10-31 | Online!
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January Mini Game Jam - Online Edition
2021-01-23 12:00 - 22:00 | Online!
Hey folks! Corona is here to stay for a while, but we don’t want to miss months of jamming, so… join us for our online edition! Don’t worry, you don’t need a webcam or a microphone – you can do it completely text-based if you’re feeling shy. Here’s the link to our Discord server: https://discord.gg/evM44ns
And now, like always: Time for some game prototyping! Type and draw away, make strange sounds and create fun out of thin air: Welcome to this month’s edition of the Berlin Mini Jam.
Berlin Mini Game Jam is a relaxed 8 hour prototyping jam: After we have chosen a theme together, we form teams or go solo to make game graphics, concepts and prototypes on computers, phones, cardboard or physical space. At the end, we present the results to each other.
Create whatever you want, just get any materials you need – wherever you are.
Anyone is welcome! Really! Artists, game designers, coders, hobbyists or professionals. Any gender, any background! We always have lots of new people, so don’t worry if you don’t know anybody yet: You’re quite welcome too. If you want to, you will find a team at the jam, so coming alone is no problem.
There is no participation fee.
Oh, and don’t forget to post a theme suggestion in the comments.
See you at the jam!
Schedule:
12:00 Assemble in the Discord chat, introduce yourself, get to know people
12:20 Vote on themes via http://vote.berlinminijam.de
12:40 Info & theme announcement
13:00 Jam starts
21:00 End presentations via Discord screen share
22:00 Socialize & play games
Please take a moment to check the code of conduct :
http://co-up.de/code-of-conduct.html

Global Game Jam Berlin 2021 (Online)
2021-01-29 - 2021-02-01 | Online!
Even in these times, the #GlobalGameJam is happening. Join our digital #ggjberlin21 location with virtual work and exhibition areas to create amazing games in 48h from January 29-31! No tickets, no limited rooms, full on digital – Register here: https://discord.gg/NBwbKCecwb

February Mini Game Jam - Online Edition
2021-02-13 12:00 - 22:00 | Online!

Game Creators Hangout Digital Edition
2021-03-04 19:00 - 22:00 | Online!
(English version below)
Es ist Zeit für einen Game Creators Hangout !
Der Game Creators Hangout ist ein Ort, an dem sich Spieleschaffende treffen, um über Spiele, das Leben und das Universum zu sinieren.
Bisher nur über Facebook organisiert, haben wir auch endlich den Weg auf meetup gefunden. Eingeladen ist jeder, der sich mit Spielen und Spieleentwicklung auseinandersetzt oder auseinandersetzen will.

It is time for a Game Creators Hangout !
The GCH is a Place, where Game Creators meet to discuss everything from their craft to the universe.
This time we are meeting online, on the BerlinGameScene Discord Server: https://discord.gg/28QXpqh2eb

March Mini Game Jam - Online Edition
2021-03-13 12:00 - 22:00 | Online!
