Games Transformed 2024 launches programme featuring Pop Culture Detective, Anisa Sunasi, Marijam Did, and Matteo Menapace

Games Transformed :

Wednesday 12 June: Games Transformed, an offshoot of The World Transformed festival, has announced the lineup for its 2024 festival.


Games Transformed is a project creating spaces where developers and players can come together to celebrate progressive politics in games and discuss how we can make the games industry better for everyone. We run a yearly festival and game jam and put on smaller events throughout the year.


Speakers include Jonathan McIntosh, founder of the Pop Culture Detective YouTube channel who will present a talk on the history of board games and colonialism, Anisa Sunasi, founder of Limit Break, Marijam Did, a games industry journalist with an upcoming book Everything To Play For: How Videogames Are Changing the World being released later this year, and Matteo Menapace, co-designer of Daybreak a co-op game about stopping climate change and one of three games nominated for the prestigious Kennerspiel des Jahres award.


Other events will include workshops such as a trade union organising training (featuring the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain in a year of skyrocketing layoffs and studio closures in the gaming industry), live Role Playing Games, table top and video games, and playable submissions from this year’s three-week game jam.


The theme of this year’s festival is No War But Class War, focusing on anti-war and anti-imperialist ideas in games. Games Transformed is partnering with anti-war organisations to encourage people to make counter-recruitment games for their game jam.


Last year the winners of the jam worked with festival organisers to create a custom arcade cabinet that was showcased at The World Transformed festival. This year a jury will select a videogame to be turned into an arcade cabinet and a board game to be turned into a quality print edition. Both will be revealed in a direct action targeting the British Army's recruitment drive.


FULL PROGRAMME:


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When and Where:

Saturday 22nd June
Main event 10:00 - 18:30
Party from 18:30
At Pelican House, Bethnal Green 

Links and contact details: 
Ticket tailor page: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theworldtransformed/1216526


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Press passes are available for the event, please contact [email protected] 

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