Arcade Social

As part of Digital Design Weekend, play a curated selection of games designed to bring people together through collaboration, conversation and shared playful experiences.

Pigeon: A Love Story - Wristwork 

Pigeon: A Love Story sees you soar across to-scale replicas of iconic cities in search of your pigeon-shaped soulmate. A slow game built for fast times. What began as a 2021 lockdown project with a simple premise expanded to explore what happens when you stretch a scavenger hunt mechanic to exist at city-scale.

Wristwork is an experimental independent game studio based in London. 

You are a deer. So are the other players. You meet each other in an endless forest on the internet. The setting is idyllic, the atmosphere peaceful. You communicate with one another through sounds and body language. 

Tale of Tales is a videogames development studio, founded in 2003 and run by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn out of Belgium. 

DYO – Josia Roncancio 

DYO is a cooperative puzzle platformer for two players in which you navigate two Minotaurs through a seemingly impassable maze and solve mind-bending puzzles. Each player is trapped in their half of the split screen – but only in a combined effort can they escape the labyrinth.
 
 The game's journey started out in 2014, as a holiday project of four Game Design students from Berlin. After four years of development the game was released to award-winning success.

12 orbits is a very simple game. The controls are simple. There is only one button per player, and you only need to worry about two possible actions. 12 orbits is colourful, friendly, fun, and sometimes a little chaotic. You will score goals, colour spheres, defend your territory and try to grow as long as possible in 4 varied game modes, versus or as teams.

Originally from Berlin, Roman Uhlig started his work life as a librarian in Hesse, later studying computer science, which led to the creation of 12 Orbits.

Suitable for ages 12+, no child can be left unattended. Places are allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. Last entry is 30 minutes before event closing time.