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NORDIC SENSATION AWARD 2017: THE NOMINEES
Whew! This year the Nordic Sensation Award showcase had almost a hundred game submissions, and our team of curators was able to select 8 games for the showcase. The curators include past winners, game designers, thinkers and critics, as well as the members of The Copenhagen Game Collective. Their task has been to evaluate each…
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NORDIC SENSATION AWARD 2017: THE CURATORS
Before announcing our nominees, which is happening in a few days, we would like to give some attention to the people who helped us make the tough decisions. As we announced earlier, the Nordic Game Indie Sensation Award will from here on out be the Nordic Sensation Award. The award will be part of the Nordic…
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Open Call: Nordic Sensation Award 2017
For the past 7 years, together with external curators, we have been putting together an Indie Night showcase celebrating the variety of exciting indie projects from the Nordic region. Over the years we have seen a number of exciting, creative games and each year one of those games has gone on to win the Nordic Indie Sensation…
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Discover the new Indie Day
During the last many years, or even since the term was conceived, the question of what indie games are has been slung around. It is not even a novel dilemma, and neither unique to games. Music has gone through the “indie” discussion and subsequent “revolution”. We, that is the Copenhagen Game Collective, have never concerned…
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The Well Played Award Show
We just came back from Paris where we hosted the best award show that IndieCade Europe has ever had. It was also the first award show that IndieCade Europe ever had. And the first IndieCade Europe that Europe ever had. Dealing with so many firsts means that we took as much risk as possible. Because…
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Pokémon GO: Pervasive Gaming for Everybody
At the collective we’ve been active in playing the cities and the streets for many years. We’ve played games in public and have looked very awkward in doing so, at times. We’ve conducted festivals about and designed games for public play. And while the reception of those games has usually been great we never expected any…
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Lyst on the Rocks
written by Ida Toft and Sabine Harrer Soaked in love, smiles, and comfortably overstimulated, we returned from this year’s Lyst Summit and Game Jam. We noticed quickly that Lyst’s mission to “celebrate Love, Romance, and Sex in Games”, had caught on: These were some rather flirty, rousing 48 hours. In what follows, we’ll report from our experience…
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Going in Deaf: Post-Mortem of The First Roger Corman Jam
On a sunny spring afternoon in Copenhagen, a bunch of game makers got together to do something else. Something weird, unexpected, maybe scary. During the very First Roger Corman Jam we were handed a silenced 1-2 minute trailer by the legendary B-movie director and had four hours to rescore it. The day ended with…
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Nordic Game Indie Day and Night 2016
After six very successful editions of the Nordic Game Indie Night, it’s time to expand and shake things up a bit. We have showcased many wonderful Nordic indie games and thrown many great parties. Traditionally it has been a pre/party to Nordic Game, but this year we have evolved! For Nordic Game 2016 we have…
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NG16 Indie Sensation Award nominees
(this post appeared first on nordicgame.com) The biggest overall change to this year’s Nordic Game conference, 18-20 May, in Malmö, Sweden is that the popular Indie Night event has been expanded to an entire Indie Day & Showcase on 20 May, dedicated to the vibrant indie scene in the Nordic region and abroad. Highlight of…
