Read the article here: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/01/30/doyathinkhesaurus-1916-does-trenchesndinos/

Peter Thomsen: “I sincerely believe, more than anything in this world, that 1916 – Der Unbekannte Krieg will be not only a hit, but a game that will get the entire industry talking.

Read the interview: http://www.vg247.com/2012/01/29/requiem-for-a-soldier-1916-%E2%80%93-der-unbekannte-krieg/

Read the interview http://www.vg247.com/2012/01/29/requiem-for-a-soldier-1916-%E2%80%93-der-unbekannte-krieg/

Where: Nikolaj Kunsthal, Nikolaj Plads 10, 1067 København K
When:  Thursday, January 26th, 17-19
Why: Because games are for real

Everybody plays games – from physical games like Solitaire, Bridge and Chess to digital ones like Wordfeud, Angry Birds, Skyrim and Farmville.

When playing the experience and emotions are real – even if the game is not. And now game designers and artists all over the world are challenging the space around the game with physical games like Johan Sebastian Joust, B.U.T.T.O.N., Fingle and the game experiences at the Space Invaders exhibition at Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen.

But what happens in the meeting between game and life? Why does the game feel real and how?

We have asked a bunch of artists and game developers from The Netherlands and Denmark to share their perfect gaming moment – either one they have already experienced or one they imagine to experience in the future. The style is ‘Pecha Kucha’ or microtalk where each speaker gets 20 x 20 seconds (and 20 slides) to present.

Join us for Spilbar 8.0 hosted at Nikolaj Kunsthal in the middle of the interactive exhibition Space Invaders.

Program:
17: Welcome
17.05: My favorite gaming moment. Talks by Bojan Endrovski (Game Oven Studios, Fingle), Marieke Verbiesen (artist),  Nils Deneken (Die Gute Fabrik), Søren Lundgaard (DADIU), Christian Fonnesbech (Transmedia expert), and Rami Ismail and Jan Willen Nijman (Vlambeer). 
18.00: Break
18.30: Debate – chaired by Thomas Vigild, Games editor at Politiken
19.00 Mingling with beer – sponsored by the Dutch Embassy

About Bojan Endrovski
Bojan Endrovski is a game developer with an expertise in low-level engineering, rendering, physics and other math-heavy stuff. He has worked on military and training simulators and has helped ship multiplatform games. Keen on diversifying, he shifted focus towards indie games and made few of those.
Not long ago Bojan co-founded Game Oven Studios. The studio will release its first title, Fingle, in January 2012. Fingle has just been nominated to the Nuovo Award at Independent Games Festival.

About Marieke Verbiesen
Marieke Verbiesen (MFA, Interactive Media, Netherlands) has worked with different projects in electronic arts and interactive design since 2003. Her most recent installation is “Pole Position” based on the iconic vintage racegame that meet the physical, tactile world. “PoLe Position” is part of the exhibition “Space Invaders” currently exhibited at the Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen.

About Nils Deneken 
Nils is the CEO of Die Gute Fabrik, a Copenhagen-based game developer, who take classic play forms from the past and breathe new life into them with 21st century technology and their own sense of style and storytelling. Behind award-winning games such as ‘B.U.T.T.O.N.’ and ‘Johann Sebastian Joust’, and recently released the original puzzle-adventure ‘Where is my Heart’ for PlayStation Network.

About Søren Lundgaard
Søren Lundgaard joined Deadline Games in May 2000 as a Programmer and later Lead Programmer on Globetrotter 2 and Total Overdose. He advanced to Game Director in 2006 spearheading the Faith and a .45 concept. In 2008 Søren joined Deadline Games’ internal pitch team to create pitches and pitch them to publishers and Hollywood producers. In January 2009 Søren became part of the DADIU organization as a game consultant and caretaker of the content of the DADIU education.

About Christian Fonnesbech
Christian is Creative Director at Windelov Lassen Interactive and one of Europe’s leading Trans Media directors and producers. Through more than 30 professional online projects, he has explored engagement on the Internet and across media. He is currently directing Cloud Chamber – an online mystery about youth, electronic music and space.

About Rami Ismail and Jan Willen Nijman, Vlambeer
Vlambeer is an Utrecht based game-design studio founded in September 2010. With games like the award-winning Super Crate Box, Radical Fishing and Serious Sam: the Random Encounter, Rami and Jan Willem strive to bring back the old school arcade feeling to various platforms.

About Walter Langelaar
Walter Langelaar is a dutch artist based in Rotterdam, where he also works as programme director for the media studio of WORM, Institute for Avantgardistic Recreation. The projects from this studio (a.k.a. moddr_) aim to critically reflect upon our contemporary medialandscapes via artistic production and theoretical discourse. For a good decade Langelaar has been active in the so called game-art scene, and one of his personal works – ‘nOtbOt’ – can also be seen in the exhibition ‘Space Invaders’, currently exhibited at the Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen. http://moddr.net http://lowstandart.net

About SpilBar:
SpilBar is a bimonthly event, where everyone in or close to the computer games industry can meet and mingle. The meetings always start with a talk and end with a drink.
SpilBar is initiated by Kristine Ploug from DADIU and Thomas Vigild from The Danish Game Council (Dansk Spilråd). SpilBar is organized in collaboration with IGDA, Unge Spiludviklere, Spilordningen, and Computerspilzonen.
SpilBar 8 is organized in collaboration with Nikolaj Kunsthal and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Part of Marieke Verbiesen’s travel cost paid by:

Read the review (in Danish) here: http://politiken.dk/tjek/digitalt/testdigitalt/testspil/ECE1498995/her-er-seks-debutant-spil-fra-helvede/

SpilBar 8.0 is organized in collaboration with Nikolaj Kunsthal and the Dutch Embassy, and takes place in Nikolaj Kunsthal in Copenhagen in the middle of the Space Invaders exhibition on January 26^th 17-19.

We have invited a bunch of Danish and Dutch Game developers and artists to tell us about their favorite gaming moment – either one they have already experienced or one they imagine to experience in the future.
The style is microtalk or ‘pecha kucha’, where each speaker gets 20x 20 seconds. After the talks, the Dutch Embassy have bought Heineken for everyone!

Save the date – we will be back in January with more info.

Enter a surrealistic universe and guide the sleepwalker Bob back to bed. Back to Bed is a casual puzzle game set in an impossible universe inspired by Escher and Dali.
Blackwell takes its point of departure in the historical figure Nellie Bly – an American female journalist from the late 1800. In a scary Amnesia like universe, the player has to escape Blackwell’s Island’s Women’s Asylum.
Wake up Clone is a first-person jump puzzler set in a dystrophic universe, where man meets machine. Guided by a dark voice the only way is up towards the surface.
A Mother’s Inferno is a disturbing experience that blurs the line between reality and pure horror as you try to recover your child moving through a train.
In Hell Driver it gets fast, fun and Satan himself is taunting you on the car radio. You race, not to win but to survive the highway of hell.
Distorpia takes place in a brave new world gone wrong – enter the digital domain of an apartment block but watch out for the virtual ghosts.

The six games are the first from the Danish games education DADIU (The National Academy of Digital, Interactive Entertainment) since the education was extended into a full semester this fall.
Since late August around 90 students from the art schools and universities in all of Denmark have been immersed in computer games. They have been doing classes, workshop and, lastly, a game production.
For the game production they have been working in six full-fledged teams from November till now. This means that they have had longer time to produce the games than any previous DADIU production and the results are accordingly even more impressive.

In the past, DADIU games have won numerous nominations at International festivals such as Indiecade, Penny Arcade Expo and IGF.

All of the games are developed in Unity’s 3D engine and can be played online here: http://english.dadiu.dk/games/games-from-fall-2011 .
Pics from the games are available here: http://english.dadiu.dk/press/pressefotos/from-the-games

- And for the party after!

EUCROMA stands for ‘European Cross Media Academy’ and is a  an advanced level training program in cross-media production for gifted students from leading games and animation courses. All participants are carefully selected from established European educations and brought together in professionally configured games and animation teams.

Read more here: http://eucroma.dk/ 

Check out the photos and slides from Play All! here: http://www.dfi.dk/Branche_og_stoette/MEDIA-Desk/Play-All!.aspx