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Welcome to the program of A MAZE. / Berlin 2022 - 11th International Games and Playful Media Festival. This festival edition is online from May 13-16 and on May 17 onsite at Silent Green and Panke. 4.5 days of hand selected sessions for everyone who loves an inclusive, respectful and meaningful future for games, playful media and their creators. You can follow our festival program live in the A MAZE. / SPACE and on our Festival Discord. Get your tickets here.

All links will get communicated here and on our festival website. #AMaze2022
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Tuesday, May 17 • 15:00 - 16:00
Hyper Talks

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Hyper Talks are short and fun 5 minute knowledge-injections. Ten speakers will talk about projects, experiences, failures and sources of inspiration in their work. The Hyper Talks are a platform for both established artists as well as upcoming talents: some of the past hyper speakers ended up being winners of the A MAZE. Awards. The session is hosted by Mascha Camino.

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Annika Maar & Irene Preuss: The Mepsi Conspiracy: ARG, community, broccoli
Is any of this real? Come to this talk to find out. Sponsored by Mepsi (It's a drink!).

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Talita Rhein:  "How to approach people that don't know you"
A short guide on internet etiquette and how to contact people without being creepy. Useful for shy/ introverted people.

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Ali Reder: The implicit canon of video games
A look at the unspoken list of video games every game designer “must” have played and why you shouldn’t feel inferior if you didn’t.

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Inna Hannsen: Color Things
A tiny splash into the broad subject of colors and some reasons why you should think about them more.

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Casilda de Zulueta: 13 Rosas 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
A first-person horror adventure game for mobile devices / A virtual memorial for the lack of physical ones.



Moderators
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Mascha Camino

Mascha Camino (she/her) is a working Game Designer at the Berlin-based Indie Game studio Maschinen-Mensch. They developed “Curious Expedition 2” and are now working on an unannounced project. She hosted events like: Femisphere - Highlighting diversity in the games industry, the... Read More →

Artists
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Ali Reder

Ali Reder (she/they) is a Berlin-based Game Designer with over 6 years of industry experience and a B.A in Game Design. 2017 Ali founded the event “Femisphere” to highlight and support diversity in the Berlin game developer scene.
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Annika Maar

Annika Maar (she/her) is the Studio Director at Happy Broccoli Games, which released their first game Kraken Academy!! last year. Annika is an artist, writer and hollandaise sauce connoisseur.
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Casilda de Zulueta

Casilda de Zulueta (she/her) is a technical artist and animator. She makes graphics go brrrrr, manages art teams and creates in-game animations for a bunch of lovely indie studios around Germany. She likes coffee and art museums and teaches animation to game design students at a private... Read More →
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Inna Hannsen

Art director and concept artist at Triple Topping, currently based in Oslo. Fleshing out ideas for games for the last 8 years. Some might say she owns too many plants.
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Irene Preuss

Irene Preuss (she/they) is the Marketing Manager at Happy Broccoli Games (Kraken Academy!!, 2021). Irene is an aspiring game designer and full-time human being
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Talita Rhein

Author of Dogo Dash card game, Brazilian living in Berlin, recently a Producer at Maschinen-Mensh. Many years working with influencer marketing and contacting random people on the internet.


Tuesday May 17, 2022 15:00 - 16:00 CEST
SG. Betonhalle - Stage silent green Kulturquartier