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.

October 2009

Saturday 10th

• Bullring Playtest in Birmingham, England

3pm - 6pm, Bullring shopping centre, Birmingham city centre.

Join BARG members looking for ways to make a Saturday afternoon in a shopping centre fun! This will be an experimental session taking ideas from the pub and translating them into game mechanics and hopefully a couple of rule sets. No game design experience necessary, but make sure you bring a sense of humour.

Full details at http://barg.org.uk/make/announcing_the_bullring_playtest/

• Twilight Rush in London, England

8pm - 10pm, Hampstead Heath

Fire Hazard are running another heart-pounding evening of hiding, sneaking, evasion and escape on Hampstead Heath this Saturday. 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? Then turn the tables on the guards in Bomb The Lantern - if you can even work out who they are..

You probably played something like this as a kid, but it's much more awesome now that you're all grown up.

Details and tickets: http://fire-hazard.net/

Wednesday 28th

• The Sandpit Tour: GameCity in Nottingham, England

6:30-10pm, Broadway Media Centre

Join Hide&Seek at GameCity for three hours of social games and playful experiences: chasing, hiding, deducing, observing, drawing, betraying and more. And it’s completely free!

Full programme and details at http://sandpit.hideandseekfest.co.uk/nottingham-sandpit/

Friday 30th

• Halloween Iglab in Bristol, England

7:30pm

After its September Hiatus iglab returns on October 30th and gets scary - bring on the iglab Halloween Special.

http://iglab.urbanantics.net/www/?p=102

Saturday 31st

• Dead Reckoning in London, England

The sellout experience returns! Running, shooting, sneaking and hiding in the park – after dark. When The Zombies Come, how will you fare? Tix: http://fire-hazard.net/

November 2009

Thursday 5th

• The Sandpit Tour: Sheffield Doc/Fest in Sheffield, England

6:30-10:30pm, The HUBS - Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2QQ

Join Hide&Seek at Sheffield Doc/Fest for three hours of social games and playful experiences: chasing, hiding, deducing, observing, drawing, betraying and more. And it’s completely free!

Full programme and details at http://sandpit.hideandseekfest.co.uk/sheffield-sandpit/

Thursday 12th

• The Sandpit Tour: Wunderbar Festival in Newcastle, England

6:30-10:30pm, Tyneside Cinema

Join Hide&Seek at Wunderbar Festival for four hours of social games and playful experiences: chasing, hiding, deducing, observing, drawing, betraying and more. And it’s completely free!

Full programme and details at http://sandpit.hideandseekfest.co.uk/newcastle-sandpit/

December 2009

Saturday 5th

• Larkin' About in Manchester, England

An all day pervasive gaming festival, Larkin' About is a day of flashmobs and audience participation in labyrinths, conspiracies, chases, clues, impossipuzzles, Connect 4 challenges and urban adventures.

Official site is at http://larkin-about.tumblr.com, with more details at Green Room Arts.

Larkin' About are currently accepting submissions.

Annual festivals

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