BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27045@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:[untitled games event] #9: "dreams and disquiet" DTSTAMP:20260903T015914Z DTSTART:20260920T143000Z DTEND:20260920T170000Z DESCRIPTION:A community-led games event featuring 7+ experimental games and talks by\ncreators. Edition #9 (free\, BYO) is themed "dreams and disquie t" and features\nthe following games and talks:\n\n\nI’M YOUR HOST\, by Ca lligram Studio\n\nAn audio deduction game where you have one task: restore a lost podcast. Use\nyour custom OS to rebuild the timeline\, fix transcr ipts\, and dig through\ninterview outtakes. Why were the episodes destroye d? Who is covering the truth?\nAnd what happened to the host?\n\nCéline Za epffel on Dutch Board Games in the Industrial Revolution \nGames of the Go ose\, Owl Games\, Harlequin Games – the Rijksmuseum holds more than\n400 s uch board games\, created between 1830 and 1914\, when Europe was\nindustr ializing at breakneck speed. But these colourful pastimes were more than\n children’s toys: they were mirrors of a world in transition\, tools of\nim agination and instruction spreading the ideas and values of a new age. \nS cholar Céline Zaepffel introduces her book "The Goose and the Machine"\, w hich\nuncovers how nineteenth-century board games in the Netherlands captu red both the\ndreams and the disquiet of their time – teaching generations to play\, imagine\nand believe in a world remade by progress.\n\nDiluvium \, by Barbara Mathijssen and Max Kuilman\nExplore the salvaged internet of a post-apocalyptic utopian society: knowledge\nand communications are exc hanged through bird rings\, a new world wide web woven\nalong bird migrati on patterns. This first entry in their worldbuilding project\nDiluvium is a hybrid zine and hypertext fiction piece. It details a future in\nwhich t he Earth's sea level has risen dramatically and humanity has moved onto\nt he floating remains of what once was\, adrift.\n\nAll Will Rise\, by Specu lative Agency \nA river burns. A god dies. A city awakes.\nA game about ta king billionaires to court for destroying the planet. It’s a\ncrime thrill er about the murder of a river\, with deep deck-building mechanics.\nIt’s a revenge fantasy against the powerful that gets personal\, wild\, and mes sy.\n\nPaketown\, by Nestor Sire and collaborators \nA game that simulates the historical development of the Paquete Semanal\, Cuba’s\nfamous altern ative entertainment media distribution network. You will start your\nbusin ess renting out novels and will eventually arrive at distributing media\nf iles via hard disks. Based on biographical interviews with paqueteros and\ ndeveloped by one of the island’s first independent game studios\, PakeTow n\ninvites players to become entrepreneurs in the informal Cuban media sec tor and\nexperience this history of alternative media distribution themsel ves.\n\nWelcome to Spring Flounder Cove\, by BigBeefySharkBaby \nWelcome t o Spring Flounder Cove is about going fishing\, making music and being\nin love with your best friend. Make your way through the woods\, squeeze a f rog\,\ncatch a fish with this little drum machine. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/untitled-games-event-9-dreams-and-disqu iet GEO:52.3847112;4.8861728 LOCATION:UGE Studio - Tussen de Bogen 46\, 1013 JB Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,games,haarlemmerbuurt X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

A community-led games event featuring 7+ ex perimental games and talks by creators. Edition #9 (free, BYO) is themed " dreams and disquiet" and features the following games and talks:


I’M YOUR HOST, by Calligram Studio

An audio deduct ion game where you have one task: restore a lost podcast. Use your custom OS to rebuild the timeline, fix transcripts, and dig through interview out takes. Why were the episodes destroyed? Who is covering the truth? And wha t happened to the host?

Céline Zaepffel on Dutch Board Game s in the Industrial Revolution 
Games of the Goose, Owl G ames, Harlequin Games – the Rijksmuseum holds more than 400 such board gam es, created between 1830 and 1914, when Europe was industrializing at brea kneck speed. But these colourful pastimes were more than children’s toys: they were mirrors of a world in transition, tools of imagination and instr uction spreading the ideas and values of a new age.  Scholar Céline Z aepffel introduces her book "The Goose and the Machine", which uncovers ho w nineteenth-century board games in the Netherlands captured both the drea ms and the disquiet of their time – teaching generations to play, imagine and believe in a world remade by progress.

Diluvium, by Bar bara Mathijssen and Max Kuilman
Explore the salvaged internet of a post-apocalyptic utopian society: knowledge and communications are ex changed through bird rings, a new world wide web woven along bird migratio n patterns. This first entry in their worldbuilding project Diluvium is a hybrid zine and hypertext fiction piece. It details a future in which the Earth's sea level has risen dramatically and humanity has moved onto the f loating remains of what once was, adrift.

All Will Rise, by Speculative Agency 
A river burns. A god dies. A city aw akes.
A game about taking billionaires to court for destroying the plan et. It’s a crime thriller about the murder of a river, with deep deck-buil ding mechanics. It’s a revenge fantasy against the powerful that gets pers onal, wild, and messy.

Paketown, by Nestor Sire and collabo rators 
A game that simulates the historical development of the Paquete Semanal, Cuba’s famous alternative entertainment media dist ribution network. You will start your business renting out novels and will eventually arrive at distributing media files via hard disks. Based on bi ographical interviews with paqueteros and developed by one of the island’s first independent game studios, PakeTown invites players to become entrep reneurs in the informal Cuban media sector and experience this history of alternative media distribution themselves.

Welcome to Sprin g Flounder Cove, by BigBeefySharkBaby 
Welcome to Spring Flounder Cove is about going fishing, making music and being in love with your best friend. Make your way through the woods, squeeze a frog, catch a fish with this little drum machine.

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