Archives: Projects
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Le regole del gioco
Per il sesto anno consecutivo, Game Happens prosegue nella collaborazione con Internet Festival. Per l’edizione 2019 propone una selezione di giochi indipendenti internazionali e una serie di mini-lecture per esplorare le nuove regole del gioco. A metà tra la ridefinizione di un manifesto di intenti e di stile – come OuLiPo per la letteratura e Dogme 95 per il cinema – e l’individuazione di un nuovo canone: autoriale, postcolonialista, inclusivo.
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Videogiocanda 2019
Nine indie games about inclusion and exclusion.
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[2019] Game Happens – Elements of Change
Game Happens 2019 is an event organised by Regione Liguria, through its in house company Liguria International, with the support of the Cultural Association Game Happens, and financed by the POR FESR Liguria 2014-2020.
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IVIPRO DAYS 2019. Videogiochi, patrimonio, turismo
IVIPRO DAYS 2019 (September 14th-15th) will take place in the charming Estense Castle of Ferrara and it will host in-depth informative meetings, and international guests will be invited.
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Identities and Video Games: Personal and Collective Stories Against Standardisation
A talk focused on autobiographical and folk narratives in indie games.
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Fragmented Narratives and Hyper-Novels: How Video Game as a Medium Is Reinventing Folklore Today
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine and Somewhere are two video games that, thanks to their peculiar structure, by mirroring the oral tradition of storytelling, push the boundaries of the medium to their limits, becoming the perfect anthologies of local (almost forgotten) folk tales.
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Ten (+1) Indie Games for Your Multiple Intelligences
Game Happens curated this showcase of independent video games, in order to provide different points of view about intelligence: not just logic and linguistic skills, but also intrapersonal and interpersonal, musical and visual, naturalist and bodily, moral and existential.
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Video Games Talk About Us
A path through independent titles to be played and discovered.
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Papille
Papille: Una fettina di cultura al limone is a new editorial project created by Game Happens for our Italian readers.
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Video Games as Representations and Reinterpretations of History
July 13, 2018 @ Pisa, Italy ENG | ITA [ENG] Video Games as Representations and Reinterpretations of History Today video games push the boundaries of entertainment, thus becoming a form of cultural expression and addressing important and universal themes. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the history of human kind plays an increasingly central […]
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[2018] Game Happens – Urban Geographies
The fifth edition of Game Happens has been cancelled.
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The Impact of Curation
The practice of organising an event transcends the pragmatic aspect of coordinating a team: you are building a new space, and every decision you make should mirror your values.
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Playing with #Sentiment
What is #sentiment? Sentiment means point of view, opinion, feeling about a topic. Today, game designers and creators are exploring the great potential of this digital medium. Video games can be tools to present different points of view about the world, because the player can navigate through diverse narratives and expand their own views.
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[2017] Game Happens – On Stage
“On Stage” is a statement: a game can happen everywhere, at any time, and every space can be a stage of your interactive world.
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Siamo Ciò Che Vediamo
Game Happens curated the Italian localisation of We Become What We Behold, a game by Nicky Case.
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The Game Shack
Our selection has been inspired by the theme of the Internet Festival 2016: nodes and links.
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[2016] Game Happens! – Right Now
June 24-25th, 2016 @ Genova ENG | ITA [ENG] The theme of the 2016 event is “Right Now”. The theme is the key to interpretation for different questions: When does the game happen? Right now, because it’s a local multiplayer game which can be played in the showcase area. What is the game about? It […]
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[2015] Game Happens! – Beyond the Screen
The 2015 theme is “Beyond the Screen”. The festival focuses on virtual reality and physical games.
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[2014] Game Happens!
Game Happens! is a workshop and a networking event focusing on the economic growth of the video game industry in Italy, especially in Genova and in the Liguria region.
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