Hide&Seek
| Hide and Seek | |
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| Event type: | Festival |
| Location: | London |
| Frequency: | Annual |
| Run by: | Alex Fleetwood (director) |
| Website: | Hide and Seek |
Hide and Seek is a festival of social games and playful experiences, encompassing everything from fine artists making location-based work to huge flashmob games within the public spaces of the Southbank Centre. It was started in 2007 by Alex Fleetwood, who attended Come Out and Play in New York and decided that London needed a pervasive games festival of its own.
2007
The first Hide and Seek festival ran 11 May to 13 May 2007, in the British Film Institute in London. Games played included A Small Town Anywhere from Coney; Journey to the End of the Night from Gideon Reeling's Assistants, using a game design from SF0; and Cruel 2 B Kind by Jane McGonigal and Ian Bogost, hosted by Minkette. There was also a seminar on pervasive games.
2008
The second Hide and Seek festival ran 27 June to 29 June 2008, in the Clore Ballroom at the Southbank Centre, and included the games Bees, Checkpoint, Hand to Hand, Mudlarking, Trap Street and the South Bank Stag Hunt.
A full programme of the festival's games is still available on the website.
2009
There will not be a full-scale festival in 2009; instead there will be a weekend-long Sandpit at the Southbank Centre, primarily playing games that the Hide&Seek community has developed in the year since the 2008 festival. This will take place from Friday 31 July to Saturday 2 August.
