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A MAZE. / Berlin 2018

The schedule is now final! There might still be some minor changes, but we’ll try to keep them to a minimum. A note regarding the location: the entire festival will take place at Urban Spree this year. Get your ticket for the festival now.

18:00 CEST

Game Exhibition Gallery A MAZE. / Berlin 2018 Opening Urban Spree

19:00 CEST

20:00 CEST

Welcome speech by Thorsten S. Wiedemann (outside with fire fountains) Urban Spree

20:30 CEST

AAA presents Data Mutations: Game of the Year Edition Club

22:00 CEST

23:00 CEST

Crows Crows Crows Club

00:00 CEST

Belly Button Club

01:00 CEST

10:00 CEST

Doors & festival pass pick up Urban Spree

10:30 CEST

Breakfast with... Marie Claire LeBlanc Flanagan on experience design at A MAZE. / Berlin 2018 Stage 1 Academic and Artistic Research on Digital Games: summit with Björn Bartholdy, Gundolf S. Freyermuth, Frans Mäyrä, Katharina Tillmanns, Emmanuel Guardiola, Isabela Granic, Pippin Barr Stage 2

11:00 CEST

Sagan Yee: Soft-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World: Vaporwave and Videogames (replaces Meg Jayanth's session) Stage 1

12:00 CEST

Bahiyya Khan: Emos in Africa: A Game Developer(?) Postmortem Stage 1

12:30 CEST

Adam Streck: STEM Play Workshop Room

13:00 CEST

Ahmed Elgoni: A Difficult Pitch Stage 1 Devolution of SUPERHOT – Exhibition Tour with Piotr Iwanicki Basement Ciro Continisio (Unity): Art and Technology Collide: Creating Original Shaders with Unity's ShaderGraph Club Game Exhibition Gallery

13:30 CEST

James Earl Cox III: The Fun is Over, We Have to Get Serious about Games Stage 1

14:30 CEST

ART GAMES – an International Game Jam Network presents: Around the World in 10 Indie Games Stage 2

14:50 CEST

Jonah Warren: The Act of Drawing in Games Stage 1

15:20 CEST

Tim Rogers: The Best Games I Never Made Stage 1

15:30 CEST

Boris Warembourg: How to make a soundtrack and sound effects for your game in a game jam situation Workshop Room

16:30 CEST

Hyper Talks: Anya Combs, Claudia Miranda, Christina Chrysanthopoulou, Claire Morley, Jazz Mickle, Hannah Nicklin, Malena Klaus, Miguel Alva, Natalie Clayton, Xalavier Nelson Jr. + surprise speaker – hosted by... Stage 1 Under the Hood: Eyal Stern, Jennifer Schneidereit, Johan Gjestland – hosted by Martin Nerurkar Stage 2 Gaming: Coproducing between France & Germany, Launching Homo Machina X ARTE Club

17:00 CEST

Mariam Zakarian: Tea with Amaryllis – an artistic ritual in The Dream Room Dream Room

18:00 CEST

Indie Arena Meetup Stage 2

21:00 CEST

Mount Venus Club

22:00 CEST

Maris Tammik Club

23:00 CEST

Manu Louis Club

00:00 CEST

01:00 CEST

Grizzly Cogs Club

10:00 CEST

Doors & festival pass pick up Urban Spree

10:30 CEST

Breakfast with... Charlene Putney: breathing & light yoga session Stage 1

11:00 CEST

Adriaan de Jongh: Hidden Folks: A Mess of Art and Business Stage 1 Digital Exhibits and the 2nd Spring of Virtual Art Spaces: panel with Peggy Schoenegge, Colin Northway, Merle Leufgen, Philipp Stollenmayer – moderated by Thorsten S. Wiedemann Stage 2

11:30 CEST

Jack King-Spooner: Mindfully Making Miniature Monsters Workshop Room

12:00 CEST

Leena Kejriwal: Missing Game for a cause: Why we do what we do. Stage 1 Vladimir Storm: Indie VR Hentai and Sexuality in VR Stage 2 Sagan Yee: Exploring Weird Unity For Beginners Club

13:00 CEST

Devolution of SUPERHOT – Piotr Iwanicki in conversation with Sos Sosowski Stage 1 Game Exhibition Gallery

13:10 CEST

Federico Fasce: Journalism in Virtual Reality. The power of context. Stage 2

13:40 CEST

Owen Harris: Working with Scientists Stage 2

14:00 CEST

ART GAMES – Exhibition Tour with the artists Gallery

14:30 CEST

A MAZE. Masterclass: Colin & Sarah Northway in conversation with Jonatan Van Hove Stage 1

14:50 CEST

Rob Bogucki: Practical Alchemy, new Rituals and VR Counterculture Stage 2 Hannah Nicklin: How to Begin: Creative frameworks to help you start narrative-driven puzzle design, and content-led game design thinking Workshop Room

15:20 CEST

Dogson: talk about ANYTHING Stage 2

15:30 CEST

Robert Yang: Let's Get Lit: Democratic Video Game Lighting Workshop Club

16:00 CEST

Neuroflow Game Art as practical neurophilosophy: panel with Margarete Jahrmann, Stefan Glasauer, Thomas Wagensommerer Stage 1

16:30 CEST

Yotam Rozin: Homescape: darkness and memory in virtual reality Stage 2

17:00 CEST

Beatrix Moersch: Breaking the Frame: Storytelling Frontiers in VR Stage 2 Devolution of SUPERHOT – Exhibition Tour with Piotr Iwanicki Basement

17:30 CEST

Paloma Dawkins: The making of Museum of Symmetry Stage 2

18:00 CEST

Screening: "Art, Games, Politics" by Willie Schumann (Premiere) + "Output" by Miguel Alva (German Premiere) Stage 2

20:00 CEST

A MAZE. / Berlin 2018 Award Ceremony – hosted by Tim Rogers Stage 1

21:00 CEST

Ed, Not Sheeran Garden

22:00 CEST

KuonaKonna Club

23:00 CEST

00:00 CEST

01:00 CEST

02:00 CEST

11:00 CEST

Doors & festival pass pick up Urban Spree

12:00 CEST

Open discussion: Videogame Censorship in Germany: Kai Bodensiek, Marie Berthoumieu, Vit Sisler – hosted by Marcus Richter Stage 2 Claire Morley & Mark Wonnacott: Building Small Adventures with Bitsy Stage 1 Jonas Bohatsch & Josef Who?: Games for Turntables – A vinylOS Workshop Stage 1 Stuart Lilford: PaperJam 2018: Making Paper-based Games Stage 1 Berlin Mini Game Jam – A MAZE. Edition Stage 1 Game Exhibition Gallery

13:30 CEST

Jesse Darling & Christian Kokott: Making Bardo – a collaborative stroll through the algorithmic underworld Stage 2

14:00 CEST

Limpho Moeti: Video Games as a Subversive Art Stage 2

15:00 CEST

Lyndsey Jane Moulds: Future-proofing 101: How to Preserve Your Game Stage 2 Chipzel: Playing With Chips – An Introduction to LSDJ Club Curious Kids Area – workshops for kids aged 6-12, hosted by Svenja Anhut, Sarah Wölker, Cäcilia Eming (in English and German) Gallery

15:30 CEST

Ben Rausch: The Shape Of Punk To Come Stage 2

16:00 CEST

Scrambleshake18.1 unconference – submit your talk! Stage 2

20:00 CEST

Mount Venus Club

21:00 CEST

Funny = TRUE: Stand-Up Comedy with Elie Abraham, Jerry Belich, Ahmed Elgoni, Zuzanna Buchowska, Limpho Moeti Club Mariam Zakarian: Tea with Amaryllis – an artistic ritual in The Dream Room Dream Room

22:00 CEST

23:00 CEST

Ben Rausch Club

00:00 CEST

Infecticide Club

01:00 CEST

Tout est Beau Club

02:00 CEST

12:00 CEST

Game Exhibition Gallery