On November 12th, Wunderbar Festival and Tyneside Cinema are hosting the first ever visit to Newcastle by Hide & Seek’s Sandpit, as part of their UK tour.
The Sandpit is Hide & Seek's legendary evening of social games and playful experiences that have become a fixture at London’s ICA. It's a chance for audiences to take part in new, playful work; and for artists to try out ideas that apply game design to other cultural forms.
The tour will bring some of Hide & Seek’s most exciting and successful games to the Tyneside and the streets outside the building.
We are seeking to give a North East creative the unique opportunity to make a new game for the Sandpit supported by Hide & Seek’s creative team and to become part of the Wunderbar Festival programme.
Resources:
There is no fee for creating a game for the Sandpit. Hide and Seek will provide a small budget for materials and their creative team will support you in the development and delivery of your game idea. Tyneside Cinema will provide space and technical support and advice. Wunderbar Festival will pay for the successful applicant to travel to take part in the Sandpit in Nottingham on the 28th October, to experience first-hand some of Hide & Seek’s pervasive games and playful experiences.
How to apply:
Please send a draft proposal for a game, max one side of A4, and a web link or similar of your previous work to takepart@wunderbarfestival.co.uk by the 10th September 2009. This short deadline will allow you to meet the Hide and Seek team on their site visit on 14th Sept.
To get an idea of Sandpit games look at http://hideandseekfest.co.uk, or at http://ludocity.org, a wiki with the rules for many different pervasive games.
But don't feel constrained by what's there – a pervasive game can involve anything from smuggling sculptures to sneaking around behind actors to following characters on Twitter and finding them in the real world; from flag-waving messages and treasure hunts to music distributed throughout a city or stories written in UV ink on carefully selected noticeboards.
There are few ‘rules’ but we would suggest that a successful Sandpit game should:
be playable in an hour or less
involve some element of public space or performance that distinguishes it from board games and parlour games
enable its participants to have a meaningful way to affect the outcome.
be for anywhere between 5 and 50 players.
Wunderbar Festival is a dynamic new festival of contemporary interactive performance, visual art and extraordinary happenings, which will take place across the North East from the 6th – 15th November 2009. It was originated and developed by Fierce Earth and forms part of NewcastleGateshead's world-class festivals and events programme developed by culture10.
For further information please see http://sandpit.hideandseekfest.co.uk/ http://www.wunderbarfestival.co.uk/ http://www.tynesidecinema.co.uk/