QWOP

Bennett Foddy

Suitable for: All ages

QWOP is a simple game about running extremely fast down a 100 metre track.

Bennett Foddy is the author of a number of games including Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, and his series of four-letter web games QWOP, GIRP and CLOP. His work has been shown at MoMA New York, SFMOMA and in dozens of other museums and festivals around the world. He teaches at the NYU Game Center as Associate Arts Professor in game design.

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Society of Explorers and Peter Martin

A video play-along board game. Can you work together to save your spaceship from being pulled into the orbit of a mysterious planet?

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Beasts of Balance

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A game of strategy and balance in which you build a tower of animals on your table-top, and then help them evolve in a connected digital world.

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Panoramical and the Panoramical Guitar

Presented by The National Videogame Museum with a custom PlayStation 2 guitar controller made by Lex Roberts

Discover incredible digital landscapes that change to your command in an immersive musical adventure through space and time.

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A Sense of Play

Saturday 29 June 11am-4pm

Join the adventure and help to create an experimental one-day playground on The Square opposite Site Gallery.

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Abstract Playground: AP1

Will Hurt

Interact with an abstract audio-visual scene, featuring geometry inspired by modernist architecture.

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Snake Pit

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A take on the classic game steered using your feet, Only the fastest players will get their snake well-fed and growing!

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