A MAZE. / Berlin 2021 - Hyper Hybrid

Cracks is a "relationship platformer", and is a beautiful, heartfelt exploration of a modern relationship through the medium of game mechanics, with a unique art style that mimics watercolors.

Elephants Remember is the second track in the Off-Score Project, an interactive music album.

You are lost, without memory and without direction. But there’s a heavy weight on your chest. To lift it, you must let the music and lyrics guide you to your past.

Can you remember what you did? Will you regret what you’ve done? And now that you can see it, will you do something differently?

Frozen Factory is a cooperative puzzle game for the Oculus Quest for two co-located players. Both players slip into the role of two penguin workers, in a world that seems to be a vast ice cream factory. However, they are actually tiny penguins inside a Frozen Factory branded vending machine! Your job: create a tasty ice cream for a demanding customer! The key to success… co-operation! Both players must complete a series of chaotic co-operative tasks against the clock. From baking the cone, to whipping cream, to literally putting the cherry on top.

Teenage Blob is a split release between the music band The Superweaks and the game band Team Lazerbeam. A combination 6 games and 6 songs, Teen Blob imagines a future where indie rock and punk games collide in an explosion of bands, butts and bootleg battletoads.

Dark Fracture is a psychological horror experience in which you explore an ever-changing world where reality and nightmares collide. Walk on the edge of madness in the shoes of a tormented soul as you descend into the darkest depths of the human psyche, and question everything you see.

Map To Utopia is an interactive performance that combines new media with the possibilities of technology and role-play experience.

Our audiences are invited to interact within a fictional, exemplary metropolis consisting of four different districts. Accompanied by five performers, participants will assume the roles of residents or urban developers, meeting and exchanging with one another.

The space of the event is a Zoom meeting. Participants also need a smartphone with the M2U Rooms app installed. They will discover their avatar via this app. Each of the 40 participants has an individual avatar that is connected to the others. This network of connections will be explored by the participants in groups, 1 to 1 or in random meetings as they face the everyday problems of urban society.

A 2D open-world action platformer that combines a fast and skillful game mode with puzzle-solving and a captivating narrative, which you'll enjoy through the exploration of a huge Cyber-Fantasy environment composed of non-linear areas where pollution has life on the verge of extinction.

You play as Proto, a little hero with a mission to help restore the forces of the elemental spirit of life, fighting with his magic Yo-Yo and the M-Tech 00 (cyber prosthesis) against pollution monsters created by an evil corporation. As you help the spirit of life regain its strength, you'll gain experience, skills, improvements for your M-Tech 00, and allies to help you in your adventure. You'll learn how the planet reached this terrible situation where life is not sustainable, as well as understand the responsibility, and the actions that we humans must avoid to prevent this possible future.

It’s 2065, and you are an interrogator-model android tasked with rooting out deviants among your own kind. You must probe for lies, monitor and exploit emotional spikes, earn the trust of your subjects, and make the final call: release, or destroy?

Time Bandit is a dark life sim where everything you do takes time.

Place down a robot to push a box for you, for example, and it will take an actual half an hour to finish. By saving the game and coming back periodically to make progress, you are invited to explore your habits, rituals, and experience of time in general, particularly as it relates to work and exploitation.

Time Bandit is an explicitly anticapitalist game with a slowly unfolding melodrama of political intrigue, dealing with themes of technological automation, economic crisis, environmental catastrophe, and radical change.

Imaginaria' is a term describing both a night watch and the night watcher. You're in charge of Imaginaria duty tonight, in a godforsaken Antarctic station. Inspired by the dev’s experiences living in Antarctica for 15 months, Imaginaria is equal parts visual novel, walking sim and documentary.

Control:Override is a cyber-neon puzzle game where you play as a hacker on a mission to stop a rogue AI that he himself had created.
Solve puzzles.
Break through the AI's security layers.
Reach the core.
Terminate the AI.
But should you?

“[I] doesn’t exist” is a modern, but normal text adventure – until the avatar refuses to follow commands. What seemed like a one-sided relationship, develops into a conversation between avatar and player. Through realising and accepting the avatar as an extension of yourself instead of only a slave to your wishes, you can help each other move on.

Hustle your way across ‘90s America as a runaway teen con artist. Choose how to make your scratch as you don disguises, pick pockets, and rip people off in this comedic crime-filled adventure. Experience the totally rad '90s in all its plaid and payphone glory!

This video game performance chronicles the life and times of Harriharri living in Finland. Harriharri is a newcomer who arrives with high hopes of being welcomed into the culture. Join Harriharri on a hip hop fantasy adventure as he battles bureaucracies and systemic forces of social exclusion!

Explore a future Venice struggling with the effects of rising water slowly destroying the city as a bored teenager, with your hoverboard and your trusty drone.

An urban game to discover Vienna and its curiosities remotely using riddles, stories and Google Streetview.

Doba Dash is a unique racing game about a South African Recycling community that race against the clock and each other to win tons of plastic, can, paper and glass treasure as well as the the title of “Doba Champion”.

Nainai's Recipe is a cooking game focusing on Asian culinary tradition and family story. Open your fridge, choose the ingredients, examine, chop, season, heat, and taste them. During the lockdown in 2020, you start to learn how to cook from your dear grandma. 

The horrors of World War II are over, but peace never came to the Czech village of Svoboda. You were sent to investigate a decades-old feud. Who can you trust to explain what happened? How was your family involved? Talk to witnesses to uncover the troubled past in a game unlike any you ever played.

Whatever you find at the front consider to put it in the meat grinder! Isn’t it more about the looks anyways?

Soviet Kitchen Unleashed is a cooperative card game with app support about color mixing and poison management. Each player contributes one ingredient to the dish by scanning the card with the device’s front camera. Jointly they try to match the ordered color. If the result is close enough, the meal is accepted and the players earn rubles. But beware! Some ingredients are toxic, some even radioactive. Too much of the good will finish even the toughest Soviet stomach.

Besides serving as virtual meat grinder, the app guides you through the story while you unlock new missions and cards on your way up to the KGB.

A project for people who like touching stuff they shouldn't.
It explores the question:
What would happen if we did touch the artwork??
It bundles 2 art-installations and 4 games playable on mobile or on these installations.
Each game is based on a unique abstract painting.
The game-genres range from calm but compelling puzzles and narrative adventures to visual-poetry & creating your own art.
It aims to be aesthetic, inspiring and educational while strengthening the bridge between art and games. 'Please, Touch The Artwork', where every painting has it's story.

The Fermi Paradox is a galactic, choice-driven narrative strategy game in which your decisions in one corner of the galaxy can upend entire civilizations in another. Guide alien species through millennia, help them explore the vastness of space, learn their own shortcomings and, ultimately... make contact.

A surrealist first-person adventure/puzzle game about art and derealization, featuring trippy, psychedelic visuals, intense psychological and philosophical undertones, fragmented storytelling and experimental horror elements

Utility for the Soul is a meditative interactive puzzle experience based on Lithuanian-American environment artist Aleksandra Kasuba’s concept for what she called the Retreat House. It was intended to be a unique, utopian facility for use by large corporations to give overworked employees a fresh perspective and rejuvenate them.
The project is a part of a retrospective exhibition "Shaping the future. Environments by Aleksandra Kasuba" at The National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania.

The Ocean Will Have Us All is a first person exploration game with over 20 endings to discover.

Experience a day in the subatomic life of Moira Lech. Get up, go to work, go home, go back to sleep. Or. Go off the the beaten track. Stop traffic. Take charge. Stick your finger in an electrical socket.

Secrets of Soil is an interactive journey that explores the hidden world of soil and its role in combating climate change. Your journey will take you to a microscopic world, witnessing the essential life forms that live there.

Secrets of Soil is an artistic experience set in a reimagining of the cosmic world beneath our feet.

Explore the microscopic landscape to understand the many citizens of the soil and the essential roles they play in this diverse ecosystem. Witness how bacteria and plants speak to each other. Glide through vast fungal webs. Create earthworm burrows. Or simply relax and linger in dazzling soilscapes and explore this unseen world. Unearth the secret of how this hidden universe could help save us from climate disaster.

Navigate your way through vibrant landscapes and explore the microbiology of the soil and incredible creatures who live there.

Secrets of Soil is an artist’s vision centred around bringing awareness to the change that we can all be a part of when thinking about the world we live in. The project received support from leading Plant Science and Microbiology Researchers at the John Innes Centre, UK.

Secrets of Soil is freely available on Steam as a short interactive experience, with a free 360-degree video version also available.

New Creatives is supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts.

Indiepocalypse is a monthly indie game anthology featuring games by 10 developers and a pdf companion zine in each issue. The goal to is display the breadth of what indie games while also serving as a work of curated preservation.

Each developer is paid for their inclusion up front and in royalties.

EURYDIKE questions our patriarchal high-tech society, which still instrumentalizes women as objects of male desires, degrading them - both living and dead – to passive tools that are neither heard nor seen. The Mixed Reality Mystery liberates the female from her shadowy existence through an gameplay between reality and virtuality: With the interactive exploration of a retrofuturistic venue – a silent, voiceless place – is made resound: The unheard receive a voice.

EURYDIKE INFECTED reacts to the pandemic through an interplay of a real 150m² big game location interacting with AR, VR and 3D Sound. With VR goggles and protective suit user immerse deeply into a sensory labyrinth that wants to be unravelled. The apocalyptic sci-fi scenario confronts with silence, slowness, irritation and loss of control as well as the restriction of physical senses with simultaneous virtual expansion: the social state of emergency as a physical-mental borderline experience that mutates into an encounter with one's own reflection and poses questions about perpetrators and victims anew.

Lead by XR pioneer Evelyn Hriberšek, international artists and creatives are collaborating since 2015 to stimulate a broad attention on gender. Its global relevance is confirmed by radicalizations such as #Gamergate and #MeToo. In the wake of the pandemic, the unheard must not be forgotten - especially as outrages have increased in both the real and the digital.

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::This Open Screens session will be complemented by a live conversation via Zoom. Via this Zoom link (Meeting ID: 861 7482 3527, Passcode: 133016) you can join. More information can be found beneath.::

EURYDIKE INFECTED – ABOUT XR ARTIVISM & DIGITAL ETHICS

What connects #gamergate, virtuality, the pandemic - and the greek myth of Orfeo and
Eurydice? What responsibility do we have as artists when we use and create with new
technologies? Do we need digital ethics, and if so, what might they look like?
A spontaneous and casual exchange about EURYDIKE INFECTED - Explorer Award Nominee
2021 - and the big issues of our digital time with XR pioneer Evelyn Hriberšek.