Will you join me at Playful?

I got a ticket to Playful today and it’s one event I’m really looking forward to. To quote the Playful website:

Playful is a one-day event all about games and play – in all their manifestations, throughout the contemporary media landscape. The event aims to promote lively debate on the nature of games: what they mean to different people – both inside and outside the industry.

Besides the ‘traditional’ area of video games, there are also so many other forms of games out there. Board games, alternate reality games, social party games (like Werewolf), there are lots of people designing these games and even more playing them. The Playful event brings key practitioners from all of these different game areas together, exploring how to make the games medium more meaningful to more people.

Just check out the speakers list, it will show the variety of all the different backgrounds and fields of the participants. I’m very curious to see Eric Clough‘s presentation. Remember the Mystery on Fifth Avenue, the New York apartment that had a game hidden within it’s architecture? Clough was the main brains behind that. Two other speakers I also look forward to seeing are Adrian and Dan Hon, the guys behind Perplex City and We Tell Stories. I loved playing those games, so I’d like to hear more about the design behind them. These three are only a glimpse of the great lineup of speakers that are confirmed for Playful. 

So when, where, how, you ask? Here are all the details:

When: Friday October 31st
Where: Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London [map]
Price: £25 (Buy Ticket)
Speakers: current confirmed speakers

Check out the Playful website and be sure to buy a ticket, if you plan on going.