Wunderbar Festival : : Come and play in our Sandpit...

Come and play in our Sandpit...

Wunderbar Festival and Tyneside Cinema are seeking a creative game maker...

The Sandpit is Hide & Seek's legendary evening of social games and playful experiences that have become a fixture at London’s ICA. It's a chance for audiences to take part in new, playful work; and for artists to try out ideas that apply game design to other cultural forms.

The tour will bring some of Hide & Seek’s most exciting and successful games to the Tyneside and the streets outside the building.

Resources:

There is no fee for creating a game for the Sandpit. Hide and Seek will provide a small budget for materials and their creative team will support you in the development and delivery of your game idea. Tyneside Cinema will provide space and technical support and advice. Wunderbar Festival will pay for the successful applicant to travel to take part in the Sandpit in Nottingham on the 28th October, to experience first-hand some of Hide & Seek’s pervasive games and playful experiences.

How to apply:

Please send a draft proposal for a game, max one side of A4, and a web link or similar of your previous work to takepart@wunderbarfestival.co.uk by the 28th September 2009.

To get an idea of Sandpit games look at http://hideandseekfest.co.uk, or at http://ludocity.org, a wiki with the rules for many different pervasive games.

But don't feel constrained by what's there – a pervasive game can involve anything from smuggling sculptures to sneaking around behind actors to following characters on Twitter and finding them in the real world; from flag-waving messages and treasure hunts to music distributed throughout a city or stories written in UV ink on carefully selected noticeboards.

There are few ‘rules’ but we would suggest that a successful Sandpit game should:
• be playable in an hour or less
• involve some element of public space or performance that distinguishes it from board games and parlour games
• enable its participants to have a meaningful way to affect the outcome.
• be for anywhere between 5 and 50 players.

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