Hide and Seek
Hide and Seek is a festival of social games and playful experiences, running in London from 27 to 29 of June 2008. It encompasses everything from fine artists making location-based work to huge flashmob games within the public spaces at Southbank Centre. The festival celebrates the creative and social aspects of gaming, and invites artists from all disciplines to experiment with game design as a creative tool. This year sees projects from Blast Theory, Gideon Reeling, Momus, Jane McGonigal and Coney, as well as parties, seminars and a bunch of low-tech, high-fun games from the Sandpit.
The focal point of the festival is The Clore Ballroom at Royal Festival Hall, where players can sign up for the big events, hire out devices to try GPS gaming, play Sandpit games and interact with a variety of weird and playful installations.
