PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

26 Feb 2021 PlayAway, PlayAway Conversations, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Games and Primary School

Tinderbox Collective

PlayAway Conversation

with Primary School Teachers:
– Laura McGregor, Principal Teacher, Garnock Community Campus
– Steven Mitchell, Principal Teacher, St Bridget’s Primary School Kilbirnie

This conversation was organised in with Music Education Partnership Group and We Make Music Scotland.

This video is being edited and we’ll share it here as soon as possible

It is part of a series of PlayAway Conversations with people working outside of the gaming sector about games, creativity and the crossovers between real-world and online environments.

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

26 Feb 2021 PlayAway, PlayAway Conversations, PlayAway Games & Music, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Games and Music in Secondary School

Tinderbox Collective

This is part of a series of PlayAway Conversations, speaking with people working outside of the games sector about games, creativity and the crossovers between real-world and online environments.

: Caroline Shedden

: Christopher Kelly

: Jennifer Lawrie

: David Rocks

PlayAway Conversation

with Secondary School Music Teachers:
– Christopher Kelly, Music Teacher, Ardrossan Academy
– Jennifer Lawrie, Music Teacher, Garnock Community Campus
– David Rocks, Music Teacher, Greenwood Academy
– Caroline Shedden, Principal Teacher of Music and Drama, Garnock Community Campus

This conversation was organised in with Music Education Partnership Group and We Make Music Scotland.

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

26 Feb 2021 PlayAway, PlayAway Conversations, PlayAway Games & Music, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Games, Arts & Community

Tinderbox Collective

This video is part of a series of PlayAway Conversations with people working outside of the games sector about games, creativity and the crossovers between real-world and online environments.

PlayAway Conversation

with Kate Wimpress & Genevieve Kay-Gourley, from North Edinburgh Arts

Kate Wimpress is the Director of North Edinburgh Arts and Chair of Scotland’s Regeneration Forum (SURF).

Genevieve Kay-Gourley is the Depute Director of North Edinburgh Arts.

North Edinburgh Arts (NEA) is a purpose built cultural centre offering local residents a place to relax, explore, learn, meet, volunteer and have fun. Our award winning venue incorporates two studios, a 96 seat theatre, recording studio, gallery, offices and a café with children’s play area leading onto a large garden. It is loved by the local community attracting over 34,000 visits last year.

Over 30 hours of creative activities are on offer each week, most with a family focus, alongside a wide range of other events such as exhibitions, dance shows, circus skills workshops, community theatre, poetry readings and film clubs. We are also home to Muirhouse Link Up and Tinderbox Orchestra.

Through partnership working and ongoing local and city consultation the award-winning centre, opened in 2002 acts as the cultural centre of the community, providing a safe, enjoyable and creative environment for people of all ages to relax and develop within.

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

26 Feb 2021 PlayAway, PlayAway Conversations, PlayAway Games & Music, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Games, Creative Aging and Festivals

Tinderbox Collective

This video is part of a series of conversations with people working outside of the games industry about games, creativity and the crossovers between real-world and online environments.

PlayAway Conversation

with Dominic Campbell, Director of Creative Aging International

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

26 Feb 2021 PlayAway, PlayAway Conversations, PlayAway Games & Music, Playaway Games & Theatre, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Gaming & Youth Theatre

Tinderbox Collective

This is part of a series of PlayAway Conversations with people working outside of the games sector around games, creativity and the crossovers between real-world and online environments.

PlayAway Conversation

with Shauna Macdonald, Artistic Director of Edinburgh Youth Theatre

Trained at The Royal Academy of Music and Drama, Shauna has 20 years experience in film, television, theatre and radio. Best known for her work in The Descent, Spooks, Filth and Danger Mouse she is a critically acclaimed actor and director.

She has been part of Edinburgh Youth Theatre since 2014. Her approach to drama teaching is influenced by her many years experience and knowledge of working professionally in the business and also by her love of devising and writing.

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

4 Mar 2020 2 days to go, Playaway Events, Playaway Game Design, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Games & Empathy Mini-Talks

Tinderbox Collective

Thu 4th Mar, 13:00 – 14:00 (GMT)

Mini-Talks (Zoom Event)
Games & Empathy

Speakers:
Marina Diez (3 of Cups Games)
Alastair Low (Lowtek Games)
Natalie Schmidt
Nida Ahmad

Series of short talks from specialist game designers about cultivating empathy and improving accessibility in games design.

Marina Diez
Marina Díez is a Spanish award-winning game designer based in London, UK. She’s the CEO and Creative Director at Three of Cups Games, a games studio based in London. Besides, she is the lead game designer of Dordogne at Un Je Ne Sais Quoi Studios and game designer for Me-säätiö in Helsinki, Finland.

Marina will be talking about finding your voice as a professional with special attention to her role as an emotional game designer and how she approached her

work starting there.

Website: marinadiez.carrd.co
Twitter: @ninfa_dp

Alastair Low (Ally)
After working as an artist in the games industry for 7+ years Ally finally took the plunge to start his own indie studio Lowtek Games. His work explores making fun, retro, challenging, dyslexia friendly games.

Ally is on the board of the SGDA (Scottish Games Developers Association) helping to organise game jams and play parties and also used to help run Dundee’s local makerspace.

Lowtek Games has had a strong focus on retro games and is working on tools to help games be more accessible to dyslexic players. Ally is dyslexic himself and wants to help make change happen.

Website: lowtek.games
Twitter: @wallmasterr
Facebook: lowtekgames
Artstation: lowtek

Natalie Schmidt
Natalie is a writer and game designer based in Los Angeles, CA. Having studied both dramaturgy and game design at Carnegie Mellon University, Natalie specializes in narrative design and script development for multi-media storytelling. She’s designed small-scale TTRPGs, and her previous narrative work for Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute explored human-AI decision-making via branching interactive stories.

She is particularly passionate about meaningful representation of BIPOC within the TTRPG space, as well as accessibility of design within interactive entertainment. Natalie is currently working freelance, as well as on several personal projects.

Websites:
natalie-schmidt.wixsite.com/portfolio
medium.com/@s.natalie25

Nida Ahmad

Nida is a UX Designer with a focus on creating playful user experiences with accessibility and psychology in mind. She has worked on Warhammer Combat Cards and currently an upcoming social MMO. She is an advocate for integrating UX processes into game development, having spoken at industry conferences and was nominated for the Game Dev Heroes Awards as a result. She is also a mentor for students studying games, was a reader for the BAFTA Young Game Designer Awards and is on the founding team of POC in Play, who strive to increase the inclusion of POC in the industry.

Twitter: @NidaAhmad_

View all events on Eventrite

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

1 Mar 2020 Playaway Events, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Fostering an Engaged Community Virtually and Beyond Panel with SGDA

Tinderbox Collective

Mon 1st Mar, 13:00 – 14:00 (GMT)

Fostering an Engaged Community Virtually and Beyond Panel with SGDA (Zoom Event)
Scottish Game Developers Association (SGDA) Panel

Panelists:
Susie Buchan (Arcadia Fest)
Beverley McMillan (BAFTA Scotland)

Chaired by: Jaime Cross of Scottish Game Developers Association (SGDA)

Other events with the SGDA:
Virtual Play Party!
Fri 26th Feb 19:00 (GMT)
(Twitch Livestream)

Go here to find out more

Go here to watch the stream on the night: twitch.tv/tinderboxplayaway

Join Jaime Cross of the Scottish Game Developers Association (SGDA), Creative Producer Susie Buchan, and Beverley McMillan of BAFTA Scotland discussing building & engaging online and real-world communities inside and outside of games.

Susie Buchan
Susie Buchan is Creative Producer who works across games, art and beyond in both physical and digital spaces. She is a member of Biome Collective and most recently co-produced Arcadia Night 2020 – an evening of online micro-talks, game demos and discussions from leading game designers and thinkers from across the industry.

Twitter: @susepicious | @arcadia_fest twitter

Beverley McMillan

Beverley is the Learning and Events Producer at BAFTA Scotland and is responsible for programming, producing and delivering both industry and career starter events for Scotland’s film, game and television industry. Beverley manages BAFTA’s Learning and New Talent programme in Scotland and has developed new talent initiatives such as Career Close-Up and leads on the Guru Live Glasgow festival for new entrants.

Website: Bafta.org/Scotland

Twitter: @baftascotland

Facebook: @baftascotland

Instagram: @baftascotland

Jaime Cross
Sound designer, musician, audio lead at Team Junkfish and SGDA Board Member.

Twitter: @speedyjx

Scottish Game Developers Association
The Scottish chapter of the IGDA has proudly worked to serve developers around the country since 2011, and are one of the most active chapters in Europe.

Website: scotgamedev.org
Twitter: @scotgamedev

Are you a game maker?

The SGDA are also bringing their yearly Play Party to the festival!

Join us for a live Twitch hangout showcasing locally made games on Friday 26th Feb – and if you’re a game-maker yourself, submit your games to join the playlist!

You can showcase any project made at a game jam during the past 12 months – whether at Global Game Jam 2021 or any game jam in 2020.

If you make your own games – send them to us for a chance to appear in the SGDA Virtual Play Party on Friday 26th Feb!

Games can be submitted to the SGDA here

Find out more about the event here

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

27 Feb 2020 Playaway Events, Playaway Game Design, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing, PlayAway Workshops, Uncategorized

Youth Workshop – Introduction to Game Design and Reimagining History!

Tinderbox Collective

Sat 27th Feb, 2pm-3.30pm

Youth Workshop – Introduction to Game Design and Reimagining History!

with Tinderbox Collective, Claire Morwood & National Galleries of Scotland

For Ages 10-16
Note: You will need a computer or laptop for this workshop

Play the game made at the workshop!

Escape the Labyrinth of the King

Learn the basics of game design through reimagining old pictures from the National Galleries of Scotland!

The workshop will take place in Zoom and will involve a mix of creative writing, storytelling and designing a game using Bitsy, a simple 2D game design programme.

Note: You will need a computer or laptop for this workshop

Tinderbox Collective run a range of music and arts projects and workshops with young people.

Claire Morwood is a game designer and member of Biome Collective in Dundee.

The workshop is part of a project and upcoming exhibition called “Ruined” (12th June – 29th Aug 2021, Scottish National Portrait Gallery) which invites you to re-invent Scottish history by imaginatively ‘mashing-up’ paintings in the Scottish art collection. You will be in a time-machine of multiple video projections, in a set of ruins, where the shocking events and ghosts from Scotland’s past appear before your eyes!

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

26 Feb 2020 Playaway Creative Technology, Playaway Events, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing, PlayAway Workshops

Tinderbox Makerbox: Electronic Crafty Kits & Workshop for Young People

Tinderbox Collective

Fri 26th Feb, 16:00-17:00 (GMT)

Free Kits & Optional Workshop (Zoom Event)

Sign up to receive a free Tinderbox Makerbox electronic crafty kit, plus join an optional workshop if you’d like to build the kits with us!

The Tinderbox Makerbox kits are exciting and creative ways to explore the basics of electronics and make something fun in the process!

Sign up to book a free kit for children & young people aged 18 or younger, completely free of charge, while our stocks last.

If you’d like to, you can also join our workshop on Fri 26th where you can build your kit with someone, ask any questions, or just show-off your creation!

The workshop is held via a Zoom Call and spaces are limited – if you’d like to attend the workshop, please register so that we may send your kits in time.

Workshop Age: 10 – 16 years

Available kits:

Jingle Baubells (for ages 8+)

Make a sound-making decorative robot!

Note – these kits were originally festive themed but they can be decorated however you like.

Glowed Up Gloves (for ages 12+)

These kits include sewable electronics for making gloves that light-up when the fingers touch.

You can choose which kit you’d like and if you’d like a space at the workshop when registering.

To find out more about the kits go to:

tinderboxcollective.org/jingle-baubell-instructions

Kit warning:
Please note that these kits contain small parts that are choking hazards for small children, including a ‘coin cell battery’ (3V CR2032) that can be very dangerous if swallowed. Please also be aware that the battery holder is not lockable so the battery is easy to insert and remove even when the kit is assembled.

If you have booked a space for the workshop:

If you have a Jingle Baubells Makerbox you will need these things for the workshop:

One device to join the Zoom call workshop
Glue
A pair of scissors
Bluetack
Your Jingle Baubells kit

If you have a Glowed Up Gloves Makerbox you will need these things for the workshop:

One device to join the Zoom call workshop
A sewing needle
A pair of scissors
Your Glowed Up Gloves kit

If you have any questions please let us know at admin@tinderboxcollective.org

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

25 Feb 2020 Playaway Events, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing, PlayAway Research in Games

Beyond Parasocial Interaction: Speed Dating with Ghosts

Tinderbox Collective

Thu 25th Feb, 20:00 – 21:00 (GMT)

Beyond Parasocial Interaction: Speed Dating for Ghosts

with Gabriel Elvery

Zoom Event: Talk & Let’s Play

Have you cared for a virtual pet, mourned a favourite character, or agonised over which video game character to date? If so, this event is for you! This talk, followed by interactive gameplay, will explore our emotional attachments to imaginary characters and consider their implications on our relationship with technology.

Suitable for anyone interested in creative technology, completely new to game design, and experienced game designers with an interest in learning new approaches and critical theories.

Content Warning: Contains frank discussions of death and its consequences, both seriously and with intentional humour.

For ages 15+

This is a talk and interactive Let’s Play, held via a Zoom Call. The audience will be given the opportunity to join in with the Let’s Play via the chat function.

Gabriel Elvery

Gabe is an LKAS PhD funded researcher at the University of Glasgow and Vice Editor of Press Start Journal. Gabe is researching the effects of Fantasy in single-player, narrative-driven video games. Their project will explore whether its effective use facilitates affective engagement with digital fantasy worlds and whether this digital affect has the potential to impact the emotional wellbeing of players in their off-screen lives. Gabe’s research will develop a new kind of reader reception theory by investigating whether literary analysis of video games has practical applications and corresponds with the experiences of players. The end result will make available a fuller understanding of the affordances, implications and impact of the Digital Fantastic.

Website: digital-fantastic.com
Twitter: @DigiFantastic

View all events on Eventbrite

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

23 Feb 2020 Playaway Events, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing

Gaming for Health, Education & Wellbeing

Tinderbox Collective

Tue 23rd Feb, 13:00 – 14:00 (GMT)

Panel Talk (Zoom Event)
Gaming for Health, Education & Wellbeing

Sponsored by Codebase

Panelists:
Dr Carla Brown (Game Doctor)
Elena Höge (Yaldi Games)
Clare Duffy (Civic Digits Theatre Company)
Max Scott-Slade (Glitchers)

Chaired by: Brian Baglow (Scottish Games Network)

What can games do for education and wellbeing? Join leading industry experts Dr Carla Brown (Game Doctor), Elena Höge (Yaldi Games), Clare Duffy (Civic Digits Theatre Company), and Max Scott-Slade (Glitchers) discussing their experience in gamifying learning methods for the development and wellbeing of children & families, as well as games for supporting health, with Brian Baglow of the Scottish Games Network.

More info coming soon!

Brian Baglow
Brian is a writer, games and narrative designer, serial entrepreneur and university lecturer. He started his career in the games industry at the legendary Scottish studio DMA Design, as a writer designer for games including Grand Theft Auto, Body Harvest and Tanktics, before discovering a talent for PR, communications and marketing.

Website: scottishgames.net/tag/brian-baglow
Twitter: @flackboy

Dr Carla Brown

Carla completed her PhD in microbiology at University of Glasgow that focused on developing novel antibiotics from gut bacteria. Following her PhD Carla worked at several universities and museums designing interactive games and educational apps on antibiotics, infectious disease and science. She now is founder and CEO of Game Doctor Ltd, a Scottish company that develops data-driven games for use in health interventions and education.

Website: gamedrlimited.com

Twitter: @gamedrltd

Instagram: @gamedoctoruk

Elena Höge
Elena is passionate about blending learning and fun into meaningful entertainment. She founded Yaldi Games, a startup game developer working on their first title: “Wholesome – Out and About”, an open-world life simulator about nature, cooking and crafting.

Website: yaldigames.com
Twitter: @yaldigames
Facebook: @wholesomegame
Instagram: @yaldigames

Clare Duffy
Civic Digits Theatre Company blends digital technology, gaming and live performance to create innovative and interactive theatre, and questions what it means to be a digital human in the 21st century. At the heart of everything we do, is our aim to create a digital future where we all can flourish. We aim to be an intersectionally-feminist organisation and we want to encourage young women to explore STEM subjects and careers.

The company was founded in 2018 by award-winning playwright Clare Duffy, after a chance meeting with ethical hacker, Rupert Goodwins. Civic Digits’ first production is The Big Data Show, telling the story of the first prosecuted hack in the UK (which was by Rupert Goodwins).

Website: civicdigits.com
Twitter: @civicdigits

Max Scott-Slade
Since founding his first games studio in 2007, Max has gone on to release over 30 titles including the critically acclaimed Plunderland and The Heist series (250 million plays). He’s brought his infectious energy and creativity to commercial gaming projects with partners including Coca Cola, Warner Brothers, Channel 4 and Deutsche Telekom.

In 2013 Max co-founded Glitchers with the intention of building games that have impact and value beyond entertainment. He’s been doing this most recently in the field of healthcare and fintech whilst winning countless awards along the way. Max also loves typography, cycling and is big fan of socially conscious games.

Website: glitchers.com

Twitter: @glitchers

Instagram: @glitchersgames
Website: maxscottslade.com
Twitter: @maxscottslade

View all events on Eventbrite

This Panel is sponsored by:

CodeBase runs Creative Bridge, a fully-funded, 10-week course (3 hours per week), specifically designed for creatives interested in building digital products. It consists of talks from leading creative entrepreneurs, workshops and business modelling sessions, taking participants through methodologies used by fast growing startups. The course will focus on your personal growth – we won’t be going through your current business plan, rather thinking more abstractly about best practice in building great products.

Find out more at thisiscodebase.com/creative-bridge

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos

22 Feb 2020 PlayAway Careers & Research, Playaway Events, Playaway Game Design, PlayAway Games, Education & Wellbeing, PlayAway Research in Games

Jane McGonigal Keynote: Fireside Conversation & Q&A

Tinderbox Collective

Mon 22nd Feb, 18:00-19:00 (GMT)

Games, the Pandemic, and the Future

Jane McGonigal Keynote
Fireside Conversation & Q&A

We’re delighted to welcome in our first ever Tinderbox PlayAway Festival with a conversation and Q&A with Jane McGonigal. Jane’s book ‘Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World’ was a major inspiration for some of Tinderbox’s work and we are so excited that she’ll be joining us for this event.

Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal, PhD, is the Director of Game Research + Development at the Institute for the Future in Palo Alto, California. She is the author of two New York Times bestselling books: Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully. Her TED talks on how games can make a better world have more than 15 million views. She has advised companies including Disney, Mattel, Nintendo, Riot Games, Activision and EA on how to create games that build real skills and help players develop emotional and social strengths they can use in their everyday lives. She is also the inventor of SuperBetter, a game that has helped more than a million players recover from symptoms of depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and traumatic brain injury.

Website: janemcgonigal.com
Twitter: @avantgame

Festival Home

Programme

Topic / Category

Conversations

Speakers & Artists

Videos