Event: gameZfestival.ch 2.0 (September 19-21, 2014, Zurich, Switzerland)
Free entry! Mechanics Manifesto! What else can you ask for? Here's the 2014 event description:
"gameZfestival is a festival for game design and games. The initial Festival was all about game mechanics. This year's dominant topic is "play together". The first video games were all multiplayer games, from Spacewar and TennisForTwo to Pong. The game was the Tabula Rasa that featured odd rules. With Breakout the opponent was replaced by levels. And video games ignited the second stage and developed further on. Today, the multiplayer is back in all its variants: Playing together in the living room or over the Internet in MMOS.LINK:
Highlights of this year are: Dutch designer Joost van Dongen, who has developed the extraordinary Multiplayer game Awesomenauts for Ronimo Games. The Canada Swiss Daniel Lutz, who produced the game Hitman Go for Square Enix in Montreal. The Swede Krister Karlsson with a revival of an Amiga Game of 1993 and the London German Reiner Knizia as trendsetting inventor of board and card games." (gameZfestival)
Submitted by Matteo Bittanti