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Playful Arts Festival 2014 | OpenCall (EN)
Playful Arts Festival 2014 | OpenCall (EN) Playful Arts Festival 2014. 19-22 June 2014 ’s-Hertogenbosch (NL) Open Call for Playful Projects The Playful Arts Festival will partly take place in the newly renovated Willem II Fabriek. There we will curate a collection of ‘Playful Arts’ and playful, interactive & performative experiences. We are still looking…
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Over the past couple of years, a distinguished video game sub-genre has flourished within the indie scene: narrative-driven, non-combative exploration games. The 2012 commercial release of Dear Esther seemed to mark the beginning of an exploding trend; its popularity cemented by subsequent success stories Gone Home, Dream, The Stanley Parable, and plenty of others. But…
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nprplays: Is it immoral to kill video game characters? That’s the topic of a rather heady conversation between Brian Tomasik, a consultant at the Foundational Research Institute, which explores possible avenues for reducing suffering in humans and other sentient beings, and Vox’s Dylan Matthews. It meanders a bit, but one nugget that got me thinking…
