New Game Plus

Friday

15:00 - 16:00

with: Michel Ziegler Will Todd

Documenting Everyday Lives through Videogames. How can we connect both forms of aesthetic media as ways of understanding the everyday life as well as opening up discussions surrounding those lives?

Friday

10:10 - 11:40

with: Marijam Did

When "Everything to Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World" was published in 2024, the videogame industry already seemed to be at a crossroads. Two years on, that crossroads has become even more urgent: consolidation is accelerating, funding is drying up, jobs and critical spaces are disappearing, and the political importance of games is still routinely underestimated. Drawing on the book and on conversations and encounters with game communities around the world since its publication, this talk asks: what has changed, what have we learned, and what would it actually take to build a different future for games?

Friday

17:15 - 18:15

with: Aleksandar Gavrilović Argo Tuulik Dora Klindžić

The panel will serve as a deep dive into this radically different approach to fundraising and indie promotion, and how studios should think outside the box when presenting themselves and their games to an audience in an ever-saturated market Also, on the panel, there will be a discussion on the RPG innovations in Summer Eternal's game Red Rooster. Hush hush!

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