GAME

“The Night of Horror” began a couple of years back when Film på Gotland went out and projected cult horror films in the ruins of Visby one night in October every year.

That beautiful tradition grew into the “The Night of Culture”, with fireshows, song and dancing in the parks and pubs throughout the night.

More and more local businesses and artists were attracted and the thing morphed into Visbydagen. An event that now stretches from early morning to … early morning. 🙂

We’re talking poetry, photo, film, music, dance, art, fire shows, craftsmen opening their studios, exhibitions, tours, markets, foods and on and on and on.

There’s stuff going on throughout the entire city and most of it is free (and brilliant)!

As an extra sweet twist to the deal, we got to celebrate Gotland Pride during the same weekend as Visbydagen this year. If there’s anything we at GAME appreciats its lectures. And human expressions. And rainbows. And love and passion and this beautiful city of ours.

PHOTOS!

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Let it be known; Marcus is the biggest troll I know. Second only to the one who’s name must not be mentioned. *host*joar*harkel*

Marcus Ingvarsson, the Swedish voice of Adam Mayes and mastermind behind last years Theme Park, cooked up this awesome workshop for our second year students:

“Today you will use your game design skills to reflect over the ongoging protests in Ojnareskogen on Gotland. There are many different sides to the situation, with many possible solutions.

In this assignment you have to:

1. Research the situation
2. Find the systems you can use to express the conflict.
3. Express these systems through the mechanics of hopscotch“

The second half of the day was spent outside, with the groups testing all designs by the harbor in Visby. Fourty adults engrossed in the various complexities of a traditional playground game.

They… drew some attention. 😀