A MAZE. / Berlin 2026

A MAZE. / Berlin 2026

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10:30 CEST

Cubature: How to Make a Game from Wood Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Dominik Cymer (he/him) • Oliwia Hajn (she/her) The Emotional Labour of Making Games Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Anja "Nanna" Venter Rausch (she/her)

11:00 CEST

Folk Games: Game Design by Passing Along Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Joe Bain (he/him) The artist is present: Making personal games Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Mel Taylor (she/her)

11:30 CEST

Invitation to be bored Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Sondi (she/her)

12:00 CEST

Inside the Skate Story Project Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Sam Eng (he/him)

14:00 CEST

GamesConnect AFRICA: Building the Continental Gaming Ecosystem Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Meli Mansu (she/her) • Safurat Balogun (she/her) The Seventh Extinction: On the Disappearance of Independent Festival Space Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Maddalena (she/her)

14:20 CEST

A Story of Personal Iteration Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Apau Gyedu Ebenezer (he/him) aka Mhiracle

14:50 CEST

With Love From Kenya: Connecting My Culture to Games Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Joanna Oluoch (she/her)

15:30 CEST

Expanding OTHERWORLDS Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Sophia Bulgakova (she/her, they/them) Gray-scale: the past, present and future of Pigeon: A Love Story Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Alex Taylor (he/him) • Krish Raghav (he/they)

16:30 CEST

Plum Road Tea Dream - From theatermaking to game design Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Samuel Baidoo (they/them)

17:00 CEST

Counterfeit Games: Anti-Game Approaches to Playable Experiences Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Jade Lin (she/her) aka strawberrycongee

18:00 CEST

Talk by Rasheed Abueideh (tbc) Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Rasheed Abueideh

10:30 CEST

As Long As You're Here: Designing Around a Feeling Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Marlène Delrive (she/her) • Ryan Wright (they/them & he/him) Why Computer Games are Puppet Shows Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Ben Swithen (she/they)

11:00 CEST

Jenny Jiao Hsia (TBA) Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]

11:30 CEST

Experimental comics, hybrid languages and mutant realities Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Iván McGill (he/him)

12:00 CEST

Experiential Game Design Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Farfama (he/they) Your Body Is the Controller: Designing Physical Play through How To Pet Your Cat and InSync XR Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Quinn "Qingyun" Liu (she/her)

14:00 CEST

PlayLabs: Reimagining Creative Space Through Play Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Kamogelo Makhoba (she/her) CLIPPED HORIZON Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]Alice Bucknell (they/them)

14:30 CEST

When the internet is dead where do we go? Here ( •ᴗ•)⸝🥂⸜(•ᴗ• )! Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Joanna Lyu (she/her)

16:00 CEST

Sybil Sybil Sybil Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]Alex Declino (he/him) • Beth von Undall (she/her)