Local Play

Play the Web We Want – 4 new games!

More than 150 people made drawings to generate a collective vision for a better networked society View images of people drawing and playing games here Before the Web We Want Festival, 29-30th November at London’s Southbank Centre, we set the scene with 2 taster games. (It works best in Chrome- turn up the volume and [...]
Play Your Place – Play the Web We Want

Join us for a free 2 day public game-jam event at Southbank Centre. Create online computer platform games for the extraordinary evolution of our species… or for total catastrophe… it’s our choice. 11-6pm, 29-30 November 2014 at Southbank Centre, London This launches a year of game-building online and at Furtherfield Commons, the community labspace in [...]
Peer to peer futures at Alt-cph 14 Assemble

Furtherfield has brought Play Your Place to Alt_cph Assemble Open Art Fair in Copenhagen. Visitors are drawing for a game where everything is decided and organized between peers. No state, no corporations. It’s down to us. We have to deal with global epidemic waste everywhere everything we could ever want no more electricity 10th-13th Sept [...]
Play South Westminster – British Folk Art at Tate Britain July ’14

Games designed by the local community of South Westminster help show what matters most to them in their local area. You can still play and remix 5 game levels developed with residents of South Westminster at the SouthWestFest Gala Day 28 June. They set the themes, and their ideas shaped the game designs. Their drawings [...]
Play game levels for a more bike-friendy Southend

15 people jammed these game for a more bike-friendy Southend Winning Level: Cycling for Everyone Entry Level: Transformation of Transportation for a Cycling Nation It gets tricky: Traffic Hell Oh dear: FLOOD! Game over: THE END. [Chrome gives the best play experience] VIEW video samples of gameplay here Game levels created by Lola With [...]
Photos from Play Southend Game Building Workshop

On Tue 20 August, we invited Southend artists and residents to join us for an afternoon of game building followed by a BBQ. The ideas for a change including changing the seafront into a pedestrians-only area, connecting local landmarks by a safer, cleaner and nicer means of transport – a tram line, and creating a [...]
Play Southend at Village Green 2013

Watch the video showing hundreds of people debating, laughing, drawing, playing the game of the future of Southend at the incredible Village Green 2013. Draw and play your future town! Artists Ruth Catlow and Mary Flanagan invited Southenders to join them at Village Green to create and participate in Play Southend – an online game [...]

Tutorials

These tutorials guides and game samples will help you to discover how to play and make platform games about your own community. Teachers and group leaders don’t miss the Checklist for Teachers and Community Leaders (guide number 6). 1) Step by Step Guide to playing and making game levels – download and print Download [...]

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Selected photos, videos and drawings: activities, games and prototypes produced by local players. Visit Flickr for a hundreds of images of local events, discussions and play, Play Your Place on Youtube for videos. Southenders debating, laughing, drawing, playing the future of life, work and play in Southend at the incredible Village Green 2013. Thanks Metal [...]

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This work by Local Play (based on a collaboration between Ruth Catlow and Dr Mary
Flanagan) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License

The free software, that enables anyone to draw, make and play their own platform game levels, developed with Soda was first published to Github October 2013

Play the Web We Want – 4 new games!

Play Your Place – Play the Web We Want

Peer to peer futures at Alt-cph 14 Assemble

Play South Westminster – British Folk Art at Tate Britain July ’14

Play game levels for a more bike-friendy Southend

Photos from Play Southend Game Building Workshop

Play Southend at Village Green 2013

redraw, remake, remix and play your place

Tutorials

Gallery

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