Events

This is a calendar of upcoming pervasive games around the world - both individual games, and larger, organised events. If you're planning to run a game in your area, in whatever context, you're welcome to add it to the list with a date, time and location. (If you want some advice for running your own gaming event, we've got a Sandpit howto and a smaller event howto.)

If you want to keep up to date, there's an RSS feed of this page's updates. There's also an archive of past events, if you want to see what you've missed.

July 2009

Saturday 11th

• Play Dead in London, England - postponed due to rain

Fire Hazard returns with an evening of rapid thought and rapid fire - after dark, on Hampstead Heath. The zombie-themed games include Laser Trap, Night Watch, Ghost and Outbreak. When The Zombies Come, how will you fare?

http://fire-hazard.net/play_dead.html

Thursday 16th - Sunday 19th

• Hide&Seek at Latitude in Southwold, England

Hide&Seek are running Grandmother's Footsteps, Reality Reality Helmet Experience and Checkpoint at the Latitude Festival.

latitudefestival.co.uk

Friday 31st July - Sunday 2nd August

• Hide&Seek Weekender in London, England

A weekend-long Sandpit event in and around the Southbank area. Games will be scheduled from those that have already been playtested and proven at earlier Sandpit events.

If you want your game to feature in the weekend's play, you'll need to have run it at an earlier Sandpit (or other pervasive gaming) event. Contact hello@hideandseekfest.co.uk to discuss possible games.

August 2009

Saturday 29th August

• Play Dead on Hampstead Heath, London, England

Another chance to experience July’s sellout experience. Running, shooting, sneaking and hiding in the park – after dark. When The Zombies Come, how will you fare?

Evade the guards and escape the quarantine zone in Night Watch. Will you sneak from tree to tree, or make a mad run for freedom? You probably played this as a kid, but it’s much more awesome now that you’re all grown up.

Catch your breath – or lose it – in Ghost, the creepiest game you can play with your eyes closed. Is there someone standing right behind you? Are you sure, or will you wait for the tap on the shoulder that welcomes you to the afterlife?

Outbreak is 28 Weeks Later except that you’re in it. You don’t have a lot of ammunition (and anyway, the nerf darts only stun the zombies – nothing kills them). You don’t know where they all are. And if you get caught, or get unlucky, and you’ll become one of them. With the only light coming from your torch and the only sound the moaning of the dead as they shamble towards you, this is pure mayhem.

Airline style pricing! The earlier you are, the cheaper the tickets. Pick them up at firehazard.net

September 2009

Friday 11th - Sunday 13th

• Igfest in Bristol, England

This september "You’re on it" as we turn the whole city into our playground – join in a whole weekend of playing with the city itself at igfest '09, the international street games festival that will turn Bristol's Harborside into a giant playground.

Some games will test your stamina, others will challenge your wits. Some will have rich themes and narratives whilst others just ask you to throw paint at each other. Some games last for hours and others take just a few minutes, some games are high tech and some use no tech.

Our promise to you is that all the games are friendly, fun and absolutely FREE. Get your game face on.

Submissions are open here.

Annual festivals

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