The Science Museum is hosting its first ever live gaming ‘PLAYER Festival’ - a celebration of live, interactive games that mixes old fashioned fun with sci-fi computer technology.
The festival provides a playful platform for making and inventing games inspired by science and the museum’s collections. From playing interactive pong, racing sewing machines, or dodging bullets from giant robots, this festival will get people moving, inventing, interacting and networking digitally and physically in these real-life games.
When: 28th September – 2nd October
Where: Science Museum
Times: From 7pm Wednesday 28th September
Cost: Free - certain events are ticketed
Details: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/player
The Science Museum has teamed up with Trigger to deliver a packed festival programme that allows visitors to experience gaming culture, if they haven’t done so already, and be inspired by science and technology.
The festival kicks off on 28th September at the museum’s late night opening for adults. A special after-hours game will invite players to stay even later and help defend the museum from invading aliens!
In addition to games commissioned especially for the Science Museum, the festival will run the museum’s first ever ‘Games Jam’. Games Jam is a day-long event for gaming enthusiasts and those with theatrical flair to develop a range of games that treat well known objects in the museum in new and inventive ways. New games developed will be play-tested over the weekend in a live gaming competition.
Stuart Umbo, Content Developer at the Science Museum, said; “This first ever gaming festival at the Science Museum is set to be a great success. We have a breadth of activities to capture the imagination of those who are up for an adventure and the unexpected. This festival taps into modern and nostalgic gaming culture, with a real-life twist, and allows the museum’s curators to come together with gamers and visitors to inspire them in new and exciting ways. From being chased by aliens to journeying into space - players can’t hide behind a console in these real world games.”
There will be dozens of games to play for adults and children alike – from taking part in a text adventure through the brain, finding the perfect love match on a life size love calculator or racing sewing machines - a reworking of a classic racing game but instead of a car, visitors will be driving a pimped-up sewing machine around a fabric track.
Angie Bual, Producer, Trigger, said; “We are delighted to team up with the Science Museum to offer a new platform to explore gaming. The festival allows visitors to bring new ideas to gameplay, be creative and grab the attention of the wider gaming community. We are working with artists with real flair, from performance, digital and visual arts backgrounds.
“This diverse range of immersive and playful experiences will really allow people to socialise during their visit. We are particularly excited to be inviting the public to get inspired by our curators and live gamers from the likes of Blast Theory and Coney, to create a live game for the Science Museum at the Games Jam.”
Other games include (full programme available):-
Interactive Pong
One of the earliest 80’s video games, based on table tennis, will be projected onto the floor. Passers-by are heat sensored and will be able to kick and move the ball around.
Video Arcade
Looks like a normal video arcade game that you would find in the corner of a pub, but when you move the joystick, you realise you are moving a human avatar through the space of the museum.
Night at the Museum
Acclaimed company Hide and Seek are inventing a game for 100 players. Locked in the museum late at night, players are confronted by aliens who have been sent to the most scientific institute to see how much humans know about science. This is a humorous quest to disguise the exhibits in the museum by getting players to reinterpret the objects incorrectly.
Journey Through the Body
This is a performed text adventure – a specially created biological journey where visitors get to choose where in the body to go to. This piece of work sends us into the journey of the body by using one of the exhibits as a starting point.
Stuart Umbo, Content Developer at the Science Museum, continues; “This unique festival at London’s Science Museum is a beacon of new ideas and methods of gaming that will appeal to gaming fans, theatrical performers and those who are just happy to be at the centre of all the action!”
Ends
For further information please contact, Science Museum Press Office – Nicola.ryan@sciencemuseum.org.uk / 020 7942 4328
Visitor Information:
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD. Open daily 10.00 to 18.00, except 24-26 December. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk / 0870 870 4868
Gaming Times:
28 September, 7pm – Midnight
29 September – 2 October, 10am – 6pm
30 September (Games Jam) 10am - 6pm
*Games Jam and Midnight game are ticketed
Notes to Editor
Science Museum
For 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. The Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science, engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England.
Trigger
Trigger produces creative happenings where artforms, sectors and interests collide.
We develop ideas across both live and digital platforms, working with an evolving portfolio of artists and partners who share our aspiration to make mind-blowing, provocative, engaging work.
Trigger are currently creating work with Edinburgh Art Festival, National Theatre of Scotland, Forest Fringe, Glasgow Botanic Gardens and Creative Scotland.
www.triggerstuff.co.uk
Nicola Ryan
Senior Press Officer
Science Museum
020 7942 4328
E: Nicola.ryan@sciencemuseum.org.uk
For updates on all Science Museum news and events sign up to our free e-newsletter at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk
The festival provides a playful platform for making and inventing games inspired by science and the museum’s collections. From playing interactive pong, racing sewing machines, or dodging bullets from giant robots, this festival will get people moving, inventing, interacting and networking digitally and physically in these real-life games.
When: 28th September – 2nd October
Where: Science Museum
Times: From 7pm Wednesday 28th September
Cost: Free - certain events are ticketed
Details: www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/player
The Science Museum has teamed up with Trigger to deliver a packed festival programme that allows visitors to experience gaming culture, if they haven’t done so already, and be inspired by science and technology.
The festival kicks off on 28th September at the museum’s late night opening for adults. A special after-hours game will invite players to stay even later and help defend the museum from invading aliens!
In addition to games commissioned especially for the Science Museum, the festival will run the museum’s first ever ‘Games Jam’. Games Jam is a day-long event for gaming enthusiasts and those with theatrical flair to develop a range of games that treat well known objects in the museum in new and inventive ways. New games developed will be play-tested over the weekend in a live gaming competition.
Stuart Umbo, Content Developer at the Science Museum, said; “This first ever gaming festival at the Science Museum is set to be a great success. We have a breadth of activities to capture the imagination of those who are up for an adventure and the unexpected. This festival taps into modern and nostalgic gaming culture, with a real-life twist, and allows the museum’s curators to come together with gamers and visitors to inspire them in new and exciting ways. From being chased by aliens to journeying into space - players can’t hide behind a console in these real world games.”
There will be dozens of games to play for adults and children alike – from taking part in a text adventure through the brain, finding the perfect love match on a life size love calculator or racing sewing machines - a reworking of a classic racing game but instead of a car, visitors will be driving a pimped-up sewing machine around a fabric track.
Angie Bual, Producer, Trigger, said; “We are delighted to team up with the Science Museum to offer a new platform to explore gaming. The festival allows visitors to bring new ideas to gameplay, be creative and grab the attention of the wider gaming community. We are working with artists with real flair, from performance, digital and visual arts backgrounds.
“This diverse range of immersive and playful experiences will really allow people to socialise during their visit. We are particularly excited to be inviting the public to get inspired by our curators and live gamers from the likes of Blast Theory and Coney, to create a live game for the Science Museum at the Games Jam.”
Other games include (full programme available):-
Interactive Pong
One of the earliest 80’s video games, based on table tennis, will be projected onto the floor. Passers-by are heat sensored and will be able to kick and move the ball around.
Video Arcade
Looks like a normal video arcade game that you would find in the corner of a pub, but when you move the joystick, you realise you are moving a human avatar through the space of the museum.
Night at the Museum
Acclaimed company Hide and Seek are inventing a game for 100 players. Locked in the museum late at night, players are confronted by aliens who have been sent to the most scientific institute to see how much humans know about science. This is a humorous quest to disguise the exhibits in the museum by getting players to reinterpret the objects incorrectly.
Journey Through the Body
This is a performed text adventure – a specially created biological journey where visitors get to choose where in the body to go to. This piece of work sends us into the journey of the body by using one of the exhibits as a starting point.
Stuart Umbo, Content Developer at the Science Museum, continues; “This unique festival at London’s Science Museum is a beacon of new ideas and methods of gaming that will appeal to gaming fans, theatrical performers and those who are just happy to be at the centre of all the action!”
Ends
For further information please contact, Science Museum Press Office – Nicola.ryan@sciencemuseum.org.uk / 020 7942 4328
Visitor Information:
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2DD. Open daily 10.00 to 18.00, except 24-26 December. www.sciencemuseum.org.uk / 0870 870 4868
Gaming Times:
28 September, 7pm – Midnight
29 September – 2 October, 10am – 6pm
30 September (Games Jam) 10am - 6pm
*Games Jam and Midnight game are ticketed
Notes to Editor
Science Museum
For 100 years the Science Museum has been world-renowned for its historic collection, remarkable galleries and inspirational exhibitions. The Science Museum’s collections form an enduring record of scientific, technological and medical change from the past few centuries. Aiming to be the best place in the world for people to enjoy science, the Science Museum makes sense of the science that shapes our lives, sparking curiosity, releasing creativity and changing the future by engaging people of all generations and backgrounds in science, engineering, medicine, technology, design and enterprise. In 2008/09 the Science Museum was proud to have been awarded the Gold Award for Visitor Attraction of the Year by Visit London and a Silver Award for Large Visitor Attraction of the Year by Enjoy England.
Trigger
Trigger produces creative happenings where artforms, sectors and interests collide.
We develop ideas across both live and digital platforms, working with an evolving portfolio of artists and partners who share our aspiration to make mind-blowing, provocative, engaging work.
Trigger are currently creating work with Edinburgh Art Festival, National Theatre of Scotland, Forest Fringe, Glasgow Botanic Gardens and Creative Scotland.
www.triggerstuff.co.uk
Nicola Ryan
Senior Press Officer
Science Museum
020 7942 4328
E: Nicola.ryan@sciencemuseum.org.uk
For updates on all Science Museum news and events sign up to our free e-newsletter at www.sciencemuseum.org.uk