Invisible Playground (D)
Field Office Budapest

What happened the last time you were at Nyugati? Did you notice anything out of the ordinary? Did you know that Nyugati allows you to communicate with aliens, meet the undead, and run with the wolves? That you can go on patrol, dance for your life and control the weather? That here is the perfect place to be intensely alone, make new friends, or find true love?

The Field Office Budapest opens at Nyugati to create micro-utopias that amplify and remix facts and fiction, fears and fantasies surrounding the site. Working in and out of the Field Office, Invisible Playground and local codesigners investigate the area and interview informants. Using a special toolkit and rich experience from previous playgrounds, the Field Office transforms local intelligence into site-specific games. In a series of live events and during regular opening hours, the games are tested with and introduced to interested players. Before leaving Nyugati, a set of game kits is released, waiting for you to use, anytime you want, here, at Nyugati.

On this website you will find a live documentation of the complete game design process from the first research phase to the final game kits: http://fieldofficebudapest.com

About Invisible Playground

Invisible Playground is a collective of young artists, game designers and academics, creating Street, Audio and Transmedia Games in and out of Berlin. Integrating diverse influences ranging from experimental musical theater and performance art to video games, IP develops experience formats that grant participants entry onto the invisible playgrounds they walk across every day without noticing. IP’s activities include large scale game and theater projects, regular game design workshops and playtesting events for the street games community and curating the You Are GO! International Street Games Festival in Berlin.
http://invisibleplayground.com/

Videos of earlier Invisible Playground play sessions

Field Office opening hours: 23-24 and 26-29 September 2011 from 7 till 8 pm

Public Playtest: 25 September 2011 from 3 till 7 pm

Release Events: from 30 September till 2 October 2011 from 3 till 7 pm

Location: Nyugati Square underpass, on the left side of the corridor leading to WestEnd

In English or Hungarian

IMPORTANT: Only for audience over 18!

Ticket prices:

Playtest: 1.000 huf / 800 huf

Release Events: 2.000 huf / 1.500 huf

The ticket is a wristband valid for all three days of the event. The wristband purchased for the Playtest entitles you to discount for the Release Events. Reduced rate is 1.000 huf / 700 huf.

Ticket information

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