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Lyst on the Rocks
written by Ida Toft and Sabine Harrer Soaked in love, smiles, and comfortably overstimulated, we returned from this year’s Lyst Summit and Game Jam. We noticed quickly that Lyst’s mission to “celebrate Love, Romance, and Sex in Games”, had caught on: These were some rather flirty, rousing 48 hours. In what follows, we’ll report from our experience…
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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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Goodbye w00t, Hello new stuff
w00t is closing down W00t started three years ago, as a collaboration between Indgreb, Vallekilde Højskole and Copenhagen Game Collective. During these three years, we have created what we think is Copenhagen’s three most beautiful and interesting play festivals. Needless to say, we are proud to have been part of this. It is now time…
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Lyst 2015
Our bodies might have moved from Vartiosaari, the Finnish fairytale island, ticks, amazing people, crazy game ideas and freezing nights in tents, but our hearts and minds are still lingering at Lyst 2015 in Helsinki. This year’s Lyst was the first Lyst co-organized by our Scandinavian network. We held our Symposium in Helsinki city center…
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Lyst – a symposium and game jam celebrating Love, Romance and Sex in Games
Thinking back at Lyst now, I can’t say anything else than it was really amazing. I can’t think of one thing that was not great! On so many levels: Speakers, food, people, games… It was the first time for someone from Copenhagen Game Collective and Game Girl Workshop to come together and organize something like…
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w00t 2014
This years Play Festival: w00t is going to be blazingly fun. We are in the middle of organizing it and finding cool game designers and speakers to join us. Right now we need your games. If you have a game that could be played at w00t, please submit it to our open call here (deadline…
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Excessive stimulation: GO NUTS!! at Wild Rumpus.
Almost 2 months ago, one of my games was selected for the Wild Rumpus party in London. I was lucky enough to be able to attend, and it was everything I had hoped for. I consider myself a rookie in the Copenhagen game scene, not to mention globally, and I only found out about Wild…
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w00t w00t
The weekend has passed and so has the festival. We have had great response and a lot of fun running this festival. There were so many cool game talks people, boardgame people and cool game designers running their street games. I even had a friend not usually associating with games being there with his two…
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We’re going to the Maldives – Boat, water and island games
Read about the background of this trip here. At our third day here we wanted to get to know the local culture more. We wanted to hear some local fairytales and folk stories. That’s why we arranged a get-together with some of the locals at a café on a Malé suburb – Villingili (it’s on…
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We’re going to the Maldives – first days
Read about the background of this trip here. The last couple of days we have been settling in. Getting to know the “island time” and meeting local people and Amani’s family. All very nice people. I got to play a game with the locals that they claim is the predecessor of the other games in…