Category: Events

Speaking at Gamezone

We will be speaking at the Gamezone festival in deSingel in Antwerp tomorrow, Friday, at 3 pm. We’ll talk about about our “design philosophy” and about The Path. The Endless Forest is also on display at the event. Other speakers include Kristof Van Den Branden, Stijn Bolle and Alexis Nolent. More info here.

Carnival in The Forest

At the occasion of the Jeugdfilmfestival, which opens today, two special deer will make their appearance in The Endless Forest. One is controlled by visitors of the festival in Bruges and one controlled by visitors in Antwerp.

To celebrate carnival, we’re having a special Mardi Gras ABIOGENESIS in The Endless Forest next Tuesday at 5 pm, Belgian time. All deer are invited in carnival outfits, designed by the players and modeled by students at Howest college!

The Path is an IGF finalist!

But, it’s official: I have bad taste.

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Only 3 of the IGF entries that I found noteworthy made it into the finals. Not Penumbra, not The Night Journey, not even Venture Arctic or Virtual Villagers. Not Fatal Hearts. Not Masq. I truly suck.

The good news is that The Path, also on my list, did make it! We’re up for “Excellence in Visual Art”. The other two from my list are Fez and World of Goo. Congratulations!

Yippee!

Tale of Tales at Game Connection

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We’ll be at the Game Connection this week, in Lyon, talking to many many publishers. Mostly about The Path.

The concept behind the Game Connection is to create a business convention for publishers and developers in the video game industry, so that they can network and meet one another personally. We strive to create an environment for them that is comfortable and provides the best possible atmosphere for doing business.

This means two and a half days of back to back half hour meetings with almost 40 companies. Wish us luck!

Brussels Chit-Chat: 20 slides, 20 seconds

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We’re going to be presenting our work at the first Pecha Kucha Night happening in Brussels this coming Tuesday. Never heard of Pecha Kucha? Well then let me give you the standard intro:

Pecha Kucha, which is Japanese for the sound of conversation, is a series of show-and-tell evenings for designers, architects, artists and creatives, started by Klein Dytham architecture in Tokyo in 2003.

Since then, groups have sprung up in cities across the world (over 80 so far) and adopted the Pecha Kucha format: each presenter has 20 slides which are displayed for 20 seconds each.

Pecha Kucha taps into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown. With the 20×20 format, presentations are concise, the interest level goes up, and more people get the chance to show their ideas.

Pecha Kucha is a gathering of creatives to talk about their work in what is supposed to be an informal setting… but we’ve been told over 300 people are coming to the inaugural event!

Thanks to Alok Nandi for the invitation… we think. 😉 We’re just a little nervous about the time thing, but hey, if all goes well we’ll be famous for 6 minutes and 40 seconds!

List of speakers:
Bud Blumenthal – choreographer & dancer
Salvatore Bono – architect Buro2networks
Thierry Brunfaut – BaseDesign
Bart Cardinaal & Nadine Roos – HunkDesign Rotterdam
Walter De Brouwer – Pajama Nation
Auriea Harvey & Michael Samyn – Tale of Tales
Jan Kriekels – JAGA
Maja Kuzmanovic – fo.am
Giovanna Massoni – independent curator
Francis Metzger – Ma² / Metzger et Associés Architecture
Kristof Michiels & Peter Schelkens – Living Lab Brussels
François Pachet – CSL Sony Lab Paris
Paolo Pellizzari – photographer
Peter Scholliers – historian on everyday life and food
Diane Steverlynck – designer

http://www.pecha-kucha.org
http://pechakucha.architempo.net