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NORDIC GAME INDIE SENSATION 2016: THE CURATORS
Now that Nordic Game has announced the nominees, we would like to give some attention to the people who helped us make the tough decisions. As we announced earlier, the Collective returns to Nordic Game bigger and better than ever, with Nordic Game Indie Day. The Indie Sensation award will be part of the Nordic…
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ALL THE RAVE: Nordic Game Jam 2016 Pre-Party
A party to get all you jammers in the mood for 48 hours of sitting in one place staring at a monitor. This year it will be bigger than ever before and that’s why we are having it at Pumpehuset. There will be an arcade of the newest coolest indie games together with some nordic…
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OPEN CALL: 7th Annual Indie Showcase and Nordic Indie Day
We are pleased to announce the 7th Annual Indie Night Showcase, and the new Nordic Indie Day in collaboration with Nordic Game Conference. That’s right, Nordic Indie Night has grown to a full Indie Day and we are looking forward to spending a whole day surrounded by inspiring games and people, having important discussions and…
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LYST 2016 – OPEN CALL – EXTENDED DEADLINE
If you have an idea for a talk, workshop or performance, we’ve extended our open call for Lyst – romance, love and sex in games, so you still have a chance to be part! Open call – extended deadline Come join us in Norway this summer!
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2015 – A retrospect
At the end of every year, we look back at all the things we have accomplished. These ruminations can seem a bit self-fellating, but it is important to stop and take some time to reflect about the things you achieve. Otherwise, the fight to spread games as an artistic and accepted medium can seem like…
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Stop and PLAY
We often forget to look around in the cities we live in because we are too preoccupied with our errands. We just transfer from A to B, not looking around, absorbed in our minds or mobile phones. It is only when we come to a new exciting place that our sense of exploration awakens. Suddenly…
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Playing drones as instruments
We have long been trying to bridge the art world and games. We have been focusing on exploring the fringes of the digital medium. Hacking drones to play music is one such experiment. There is a zeitgeist surrounding the recent surge of toy quadcopters [toy helicopters with 4 rotors that can stabilise itself], colloquially called…
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Dark Room Sex Game: Hip Edition
OR WHAT HAPPENED AT THE PIXELPORNO 0.2 EXHIBITION IN LINZ Days are getting darker, blog posts successively more nostalgic. This time, we’re remembering our trip to the Pixelporno 0.2 exhibition in Linz (AT) where we gave a talk on intimate design, showed Cunt Touch This and ran Dark Room Sex Game for a night.…
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The Lyst Summit meets Arse Elektronika.
Arse Elektronika 2015: SHOOT YOUR WORKLOAD Arse Elektronika. A festival about sex and tech. What to expect? Arse Elektronika has a long history of presenting objects/toys/games and gathering professionals that work in the sex/tech industry. Many things presented at Arse have at first seemed quite novel, but have then later become mainstream, as this year’s…
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Pacifiers as Game Controllers – Alt Ctrl game jam 2015
»Making is fundamental to what it means to be human. We must make, create, and express ourselves to feel whole. There is something unique about making physical things. Things we make are like little pieces of us and seem to embody portions of our soul.« The Maker Movement Manifesto The faint smell of burnt wires…