Parallel Worlds: Designing Alternative Realities

This one day international conference will bring together leading designers, thinkers and players who are creating entirely new worlds and communities in videogames.

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  • Saturday, 30 September 2017 at
  • Past event
+44 (0)20 7942 2000

  • The Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

  • Tickets cost £15.00 - £25.00

Past Event
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What does it mean to create a virtual world? Speakers this year include Nicola and Michael Place, members of the original design team for the 90s design classic Wipeout; Dan Calvert, character art director on the luscious Horizon Zero Dawn and Madiba Olivier, developer of Aurion: Legacy of the Kori-Odan and founder of the first professional game studio in Central Africa.

The conference will follow on from the V&A’s Making Play Friday Late event on Friday 29 September, where playful installations, arcades and exhibits will take over the entire museum for one night only.

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