I will be at A MAZE 2025

Short one whose message is mainly in the title. Next week I will be in Berlin! I hope to see some of you there!

I am running a workshop on the Friday afternoon. It's called Let's All Make One Really Big Game (with Downpour). We're all going to make one really big game with Downpour! It's a drop in workshop, with no real limit on numbers - we should have crafting supplies available, and people are free to roam through the festival taking pictures to add to their games. The way it's gonna work is that I'm gonna make a kind of "spine" game in advance, something where you're navigating through the festival space. And then other people who come to the workshop will make their own games, and then I'll link from my spine game directly into their games. And they will hopefully also link back to the spine game from their games, or into another game, or into various places online or elsewhere. We should end up with this kind of surreal shifting viewpoint as you navigate through these games and through the festival space. I think it'll be fun! I don't really know what the outcome will be.

But actually looking for that link, I see that Nathalie Lawhead, who I was on a panel with last year, and who I feature in my recent talk on creative tools with tones of distinct envy and admiration... is also running a collaborative let's all make one game together workshop! If Nathalie wasn't such a lovely person I would consider trying to hype this up into some kind of kayfabe rivalry between the two of us.

I will also be hosting a conversation on larp with Jana Romanova and Susan Ploetz. This hasn't been announced yet. So, shh, don't tell anyone I told you it was happening.

What else? Lots of people I've not seen in a long time, hopefully some sun, radlers on the grass & dancing at Panke into the night... I like AMAZE.

I should be bringing stuff to play Knife, Fork and Spoon - would love to test that on some volunteers at some point.

Oh, and I just got a delivery of stickers, so please do ask me for a Downpour sticker if you want one. These ones are kiss cut. Which means I have remembered to put some identifying details as to what they're about when I hand them to a confused person - there's a URL! a short pitch for what the thing is! I don't have to scrawl this stuff on the back! But also the sticker is just as incomprehensible as ever, once stuck. I love my little crying umbrella man logo.

Anyway - if you'll be there, come say hi! If you won't be but would want to say hi if you were - well, feel free to get in touch and we can do a video catch up some time.