TIME AND PLACE:
Doors:
Friday and Saturday 10:00-20:00
Sunday 10:00-18:00
@ Somerset House, London WC2R 1LA
Tickets: from £6.50 book online
www.nowplaythis.net
www.games.london
The three-day event returns, coinciding with the city-wide games initiative, London Games Festival. Filled with a host of hands-on opportunities for visitors to get involved.
Showcasing the wider possibilities of games, the peculiar, the beautiful, the deeply experimental. It’s a place for games that get us playing in new and wonderful ways – whether that’s in groups, on our own, outside, inside, on or underneath tables. Games that send us running across courtyards, games situated on nearby screens, games that take place entirely in our heads.
There will be over 40 game varieties available across the weekend, with highlights including:
- A nine hole mini-golf course on Somerset House’s River Terrace, played through a landscape of environmental destruction
- The Awkward Arcade, a real life experimental video arcade by James Medd, showcasing games that are designed to make participants think and move in ways uncommon to mainstream games culture
- The Art of Ping Pong – an interactive ping pong table that generates a unique digital artwork with each game that is played
- A recreation of street artist Aïda Gómez’s Joy Is Here, a massive communal word search covering the walls of an entire room
- A new interactive game from London-based theatre group, Block Stop – Of Plagues, Deceptions and Other Things – where players have to explore Somerset House and solve puzzles to stop an outbreak of the bubonic plague
Today sees @londongamesfest return to the capital. Get gaming at our three-day event #NowPlayThis from 7-9 April https://t.co/h4TTtmz7qP pic.twitter.com/hHfkgYVYno
— Somerset House (@SomersetHouse) March 30, 2017
If you like this, look at Game Changers, free exhibition from 7th April until 7th May.