INDIE GAMES & IMMERSIVE ARTS FESTIVAL | 05 – 07 DECEMBER | THE CASTLE | CAPE TOWN

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WHAT TO EXPECT!!

Talks | Exhibits | Music | Games

40+ Indie Games, digital adventures & interactive experiments!
Super Friendship Arcade exhibition of multiplayer games & DIY controllers
Immersive arts exhibition with SA's top tech artists!
Playtopia Talks: "The Art Of Games" (Playtopia and MGA delegate ticket holders only)
MGA B2B Talks with international and African speakers (MGA delegate ticket holders only)
3 nights of awesome music and visuals!
Beer garden!
Food trucks!
Hours and hours of playful fun!

(PLEASE TAKE NOTE: NO UNDER 18'S ALLOWED DUE TO THE CONTENT OF THE GAMES)

INSTALLATION ARTISTS

PLAYTOPIA SPEAKERS

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Mitu Khandaker | NYU | USA

Dr Mitu Khandaker holds a PhD on the aesthetics of interactivity in video-games. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Game Center and CEO and co-founder at Glow Up Games

Andrew Parsons | Devolver Digital | UK

Andrew Parsons is the head of production at Indie publishing label Devolver Digital. His continuing mission is to support the talented devs of the Devolver family and to help bring Indie greatness to the unwashed masses.

Nicole He | USA

Works in voice technology. Ex creative technologist at Google and an adjunct faculty member at ITP at NYU.

Johan Gjestland | Fugl | Norway

Johan Gjestland is an artist/programmer known for his work on “Fugl”,a bird flying simulator.

Kamina Vincent | Mountains | AUS

Kamina is the Producer at Mountains, Australian games company with a BAFTA & Apple Design Award for the best mobile game, ‘Florence’, and has been included in museum exhibitions such as ACMI in Melbourne and MAAS in Sydney.

Armel Gibson | Klondike | FRA

Armel Gibson is a game designer and developer from France. He co-founded the game/art collective Klondike a few years ago and now run Skeleton Business, with which he released Vignettes, his first commercial game.

Sithe Ncube | Ubongo Game Lab | ZAMBIA

Sithe is a community organizer, developer and loves getting her hands into the game dev scene in Africa. She currently runs Ubongo Game Lab through which she hosts her favorite event, an annual all girls game development bootcamp called Games Plus Girls.

Maize Wallin | AUS

Maize Wallin is a Melbourne based composer, sound designer, and audio programmer. Their focus is in 3D spatialised audio, and dynamic music, using cutting edge techniques. Maize consults in Australia and around the world on these topics, and is heavily engaged in the game development community, and in activism and representation within it.

Ree Treweek | Tulips & Chimneys

Ree Treweek is a world builder, a sculptor, painter, illustrator, animator and director. Co-founder of The Blackheart Gang, Shy the Sun and Tulips & Chimneys, Ree is one of Africa’s most watched animation directors.

Rick Treweek | Eden Labs

Rick Treweek, owner of Eden Labs, speaks regularly on emerging technologies at conferences around the world, including VR Days in Amsterdam and Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in Munich.

Delphine Fourneau | Klondike | FRA

Delphine Fourneau (aka Dziff) is an independent art director & illustrator who's been working in video games for about 9 years. She’s part of the Klondike Collective, and casually work on soothing & personal game experiences.

Robin Baumgarten | Interactive Artist |GER

After studying AI, Robin creates playable installations that straddle the divide of games and art.

Hanna Fogelberg | Landfall | SWE

Hanna Fogelberg is the community manager/peasant handler at Landfall Games. She also runs communication for Wings Interactive - an unconventional publisher focusing on funding diverse teams.

Evan Greenwood | Creative Director |Free Lives

Evan Greenwood is the founder of the South African game studio Free Lives. Evan is best known for Broforce (an explosive satire of Hollywood hyper-violence and American foreign policy) and Genital Jousting (a flaccid assault on toxic masculinity).

Lars Espeter | Academy of Digital Arts

Lars developed the Game Graphics & Multimedia Entertainment Higher Certificate course for the Friends of Design - Academy of Digital Arts in Cape Town which started in 2014 and helped students start successful careers in applied game technology and game development.

Inka Kendzia

with Noel Labridy and Jason Stapleton present "The Forrest Inhales You" a never before seen VR and visual mapping experience.

The Lost Botanist

VR collaboration with Tulips & Chimneys and Eden labs. An installation like no other, the world of The Lost Botanist enters the real world, a sculpture exhibit and custom designed scene from the game.

Robin Baumgarten

Giant Wobble Garden, Wobble Garden is a hand-crafted arrangement of sensing springs combined with reactive lighting. Players wobble springs to interact with the installation and play games