Live gaming – Dreamy Place / Crawley: Thu 12th – Sat 14th October 2023, Brighton: Thu 19th – Sun 22nd October 2023 Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:04:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 Pop Up Arcade at Dreamy Place /pop-up-arcade-at-dreamy-place/ Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000 /?p=1754 Pop Up Arcade returns for 2023 (our first event since 2019!) Small, perfectly formed, and our first ever exhibition in Crawley to celebrate games and play as part of the Dreamy Place Festival.

The arcade is free, open to everyone, and you can pop in any time you like. Come and say hi!

Come along to one of our arcade days at The Ancient Priors to play fun multiplayer games, team up with your friends, experiment with some alternative controllers, and maybe discover a new game or two from the weirder side of independent developers’ brains.

Delight in striking visuals, colourful imagery, intuitive controls for a slice of Indie game fun.

Run by Jo Summers under the banner of ‘Press Fire to Win’, Pop Up Arcade has been running in various forms since 2014, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival, and alongside the Develop conference in Brighton. Jo also runs events around celebrating women’s work in games, and the Global Game Jam every year.

Expect fun, excitement, cooperation, betrayal, flashing lights, big buttons, beeps and boops, and the opportunity to discover some fun new games you might not have tried yet. We hope to see you there!

]]> Outdoor Videogame Installation – Rakete /outdoor-videogame-installation-rakete/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 19:43:26 +0000 /?p=2486 Rakete is an award-winning cooperative multiplayer rocket game for up to 5 players. The star of the game is a white rocket in space that needs to land safely on the blue pad. It was developed by Mario Von Rickenbach, a world-renowned developer.

In celebration – and extension – of our Pop Up Arcade at The Ancient Priors, we are thrilled to bring Rakete to Queens Square in Crawley on Saturday 14th October for our Outdoor Videogame Installation. Drop by between 10am and 6pm to play this multiplayer game.

Run by Jo Summers under the banner of ‘Press Fire to Win’, our Outdoor Videogame Installation is part of our Pop Up Arcade which Jo has been running in various forms since 2014, as part of the Brighton Digital Festival, and alongside the Develop conference in Brighton. Jo also runs events around celebrating women’s work in games, and the Global Game Jam every year.

Winner of the Jury & Audience Award, Experimentalgameplay.com Contest in Berlin. Part of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medien (ZKM) Collection.

Instructions to play: Rakete is free to play. Players can choose from any of the 38 levels to begin playing. For brand new players, it is recommended to play the first level first. The first level is a great introduction to the game and allows players to have an idea of how the game works. It is also a great level for all players to figure out how to maneuver the ship together and to get the hang of moving a rocket ship with only a finger.

Please Note: There will be someone from the Dreamy Place Team to help you!

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