SUBOTRON arcademy: Real Life, Digital Expression: Turing Reality into Digitality

SUBOTRON arcademy: Real Life, Digital Expression: Turning Reality into Digitality

Datum: Fr 29.11., 19h
Ort: Raum D / quartier21
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Dr. Tomas Rawlings
GameTheNews.net and Auroch Digital, Bristol
This talk looks at the concept of making games from real-world events. It will look at the recent projects undertaken, including “Endgame:Syria”, which caused a media flurry when Apple refused it on the App Store, “NarcoGuerra”, looking at the war on drugs and the recent project; “JtR125″ – a playable documentary looking at the last of the Jack the Ripper murders in London, 1888. GameTheNews.net is a project looking at turning news into games which has generated applause and criticism from its approach and subject matter.

Kurzbiographie
Tomas is Design & Production Director at Auroch Digital and its acclaimed news-gaming project GameTheNews.net which produced the global talking-point, “Endgame:Syria”. He has designed games from original titles to known IP, e.g. “Star Wars:The Battle for Hoth” and the multiple award winning “Call of Cthulhu:The Wasted Land”. He is a games consultant working with major organisations such as the Wellcome Trust. He has a doctorate from the University of the West of England in Software Studies. He also blogs at agreatbecoming.com, is a co-founder of the non-profit Bristol Games Hub and is named in Bristol’s Arts & Culture Power List.

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Die Veranstaltungsreihe wird durch die Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien und die Bundesstelle für die Positivprädikarisierung von Computer- und Konsolenspielen (BUPP) gefördert.
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von <link http: www.departure.at _blank>departure  – Die Kreativagentur der Stadt Wien