Puppet shows are one of the oldest forms of entertainment and computer games are among the newest, but they have much in common!
Running a puppet show? Put up a booth and ready your puppets, your props and your backcloths. You have a story in mind, maybe even a script, and you play it. Making any kind of game with characters? Make your character assets, your props, your backgrounds. You’ve created a world. There may be narrative and pieces of script, but you set the player off with their puppet and tell them: have fun with it.
If you ever play with your toys and send them on adventures you’re playing a game and you’re giving yourself a puppet show. (And if you never send toys on adventures, you’re missing a treat!)
Content warning A brief mention of mortality, but nothing grizzly or shocking.
Ben Swithen is a writer, music-maker and indie game developer who made the game ‘Buy Hyacinths’ (about one of the first sheep to go to a human university) and ‘Trans Theft Horso’ (about gender gladness in the feverish west). They do work for Geeks for Social Change, and in... Read More →
Friday May 15, 2026 10:30 - 11:00 CEST Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
