Listening games
Throughout the Festival
mscapes
HP Labs
Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June at the Royal Festival Hall
Mscapes overlay digital sight, sounds and interactions onto the physical world to create immersive and interactive experiences: a virtual canvas onto the real world.
Friday 27th June
Hide and Speak
9:30am to 5:00pm, Friday 27th June at The Southbank Centre
A day of seminars, talks and discussion about the future of play. Presented in conjunction with the London Games Fringe and Crossover.
Werewolf Night
7:00pm to 10:00pm, Friday 27th June at Royal Festival Hall, the Southbank Centre
A classic of social gaming, featuring negotiation, lies, double-dealing, shifting alliances, and werewolf howls.
All Weekend
London-as-Tokyo
Momus
12:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th June outside near the Southbank Centre
In London-as-Tokyo, Momus and his Japanese girlfriend, dressed as tour guides, will transform London into Tokyo using only language and bullhorns.
Pick-up-and-play games
The Sandpit
12:00pm to 8:00pm, Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Grab a ruleset, some friends (or strangers), some paper or cards or whatever else the game demands, and settle down for a few rounds of the social game of your choice.
Saturday 28th June
Fun Fed Games (1)
The Fun Fed
12:00pm to 1:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
A bunch of games where you'll leap, whoop, shout and never 'get out'.
Fun Fed Games (2)
The Fun Fed
3:00pm to 4:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
A bunch of games where you'll leap, whoop, shout and never 'get out'.
The Comfort of Strangers
Simon
5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Listen carefully and create your team out of the anonymous crowd; find comfort in strangers. Every chance encounter could be your last, or an opportunity to live and survive.
MPT
Hide and Seek in association with Coney and body>data>space
6:07pm onwards, Saturday 28th June around the Southbank Centre
On 28 June London will flood with people awaiting the signal to freeze. Poised: ready to discover what happens next.
Sunday 29th June
Bees
Holly Gramazio
1:00pm to 2:00pm, Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre
Become a bee: communicate through movement while you buzz around the Southbank Centre looking for pollen. Kazoos provided.
Freemasons
Halal Kebab Hut
2:00pm to 3:00pm, Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre
Discover your hidden musical talents and also your inner despot by joining this kazoo-playing cult of Masters, Serfs, and Freemen.
The Lost Sport of Olympia
Jane McGonigal
3:00pm onwards, Sunday 29th June at Hayward overhang
Rediscover the Lost Sport of Olympia in a brand new experience from one of the leading lights of the alternative reality gaming movement.
SpaceEffect
Rootatroupe
4:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 29th June around the Southbank Centre
1 place, 1 word, 1 encounter, a lasting effect. Space Effect is a nonsensical exchange between strangers.