Join Scala Radio at The Tinderbox PlayAway Game Festival
The online festival brings together 30 game designers, artists, composers, and educators involved in games production
Last updated 3rd Feb 2021
Headed-up by Scala Radio presenter Luci Holland, the Tinderbox PlayAway Games Festival will showcase the creativity, diversity, innovation, and imagination in games and interactive media.
We're delighted to be playing our part at the festival too.
Listen to Luci Holland's video game show The Console every Saturday from 5pm on Scala Radio.
What is The Tinderbox PlayAway Game Festival?
From 22nd February to Friday 5th March, over thirty game designers, artists, composers, educators will convene for a series of panel discussions, workshops, demostrations, music performances, digital play sessions and game jams. Scala Radio is pleased to be joining them.
Tinderbox is looking to the gaming world and experience for inspiration on how to best manage the remote-working virtual world we're all experiencing right now.
The festival aims to tackle a number of different questions. How are games adapting and responding to the pandemic? How are gamers engaging in game play online and offline right now? What new opportunities for game designers to bring different gaming worlds together? And how do games need to develop, preparing themselves for a post-pandemic world?
How to get involved in The Tinderbox PlayAway Game Festival
The Tinderbox PlayAway Game Festival is staged on a donations-based model, offering free access for anyone to attend. The Festival is committed to paying our speakers and performers fairly.
Tinderbox PlayAway Game Festival Director Luci Holland said, “Games are such an exciting artform, with so much depth and so many possibilities. Games use all sorts of creative formats and technologies, inviting people to collaborate, communicate and explore ideas, and always with a playful ethos. We hope this festival will showcase some of this variety and create new connections and conversations with people from different sectors, including those who might not know much about games – yet!”
Tinderbox Playaway Festival Line-up
Keynote speaker: 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.
Chipzel – Live Music Headline
Chipzel is best known for making chiptune music, particularly with a Game Boy. She is also a video game music composer known for game soundtracks such as Super Hexagon, Interstellaria, and Dicey Dungeons.
Game Composer Panel
Panel discussion featuring Jenny Nelson (Scala Radio), Nainita Desai (Telling Lies, For Sama) and Guy Jackson (Sea of Solitude)
Game Designer Panel
Panel discussion, featuring Jon McKellan (No Code - Observation, Stories Untold), Dan Pinchbeck (The Chinese Room – Dear Esther, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture, Little Orpheus) and Shay Thompson (BBC Sounds, Press X To Continue)
SGDA Play Party
Livestream and games playthrough with the Scottish Games Developers Association
1-day Bitsy Game Jam
Make and share games using Bitsy
Who are the Tinderbox Collective?
Tinderbox is a collective of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers. From grass-roots youth work to award winning art productions, they aim to ignite a spark – one which fills people with confidence, imagination and sense of possibility, and which enables people to achieve things they never thought possible.
When is Luci Holland's The Console on Scala Radio?
Listen to Luci Holland's The Console on Saturdays from 5pm and Sundays from 10pm.