Arcade game • 4th - 7th Aug

We are a group of seven Master’s students at the Creative Computing Institute, UAL. We create and use novel interactions and creative technology as a medium to open dialogue and bring about positive change.

by Adam Cole, Alexandre Tarek, Sali Mallat, Orsolya Szantho, Lea Ho, Lexin Zhou, Sixiong Sheng

Arcade game • All dates

Centenntable is a 100 button fighter where controls are randomized every round. This is a version playable on four usb keyboards.

by Amanda Hudgins

Arcade game • All dates

Pocket Plant is a game where you help a plant grow using light. Managing how much light and from where, controls the direction and steady growth of the plant. Too much light or too little is detrimental to the plants wellbeing causing it to wither.

Help the plant reach to the sky and bloom.

by Casey Lodge

Arcade game • All dates

An unusual pool table.

by Edward Saperia

Bookable game • tbd dates

The Keeper has awakened. This only happens every 1,000 years when the evil Paxillus is released from his mushroom prison. Your team, The Guardians, must help our hero defeat this dreaded Mushroom King and save the people of this land. This is an interactive adventure set completely in a miniature world. It is a mixture of an escape room, role playing game, and is as much of a game as it is an experience (also with original music and songs). We can almost guarantee that you have never played anything quite like this. This is a live hosted game with a games master that you will assist and interact with. You will simply tell them what to do and what/who to interact with.

*This game has short bursts of flashing lights*

by Headlock Escape Rooms

Arcade game • 4th - 7th Aug

In “Trapped in the Debris”, players move a large, elaborately engraved brick in order to free a spirit which is trapped inside of it. The brick is an alternative controller which you use by rotating it in your hands. The spirit inside of the brick can only be freed after certain points in time have been reached. Players control the flow of time in the game by moving the controller and accelerating the framerate. The spirit’s freedom lies in the player’s hands.

by Julia Makivic

Arcade game • tbd dates

Bot Party is a game which explores intimacy through physical play using sound and touch. The bots have a problem. They have no way to communicate with their friends. Can you help?

by Phoenix Perry and Charlie Anne Page

Arcade game • All dates

Telusfax is a archaeo-game set in the teletext system of a British television station one day in a half-remembered 2003.

Browse the system to locate the names of the presenters of five different tv shows.

Explore over 50 pages of pseudo-2003 content.

Track down forgotten celebrities.

Get the most up-to-date news regarding the foot and mouth pandemic.

Get the latest football scores.

Read about the music of the day.

by Richard Sheriff

Arcade game • All dates

How do you operate a potato?

Our world is adopting virtual culture at an astonishing rate. As remote working became normalised throughout 2020, it seemed like the next phase was to not only work online but live online. With strong video gaming typology, the Metaverse as it is presented now resembles more the dystopian tales and science fiction worlds that gave it its original form. Potato Controllers is an attempt to rethink and reimagine what the virtual future holds.

In this critical design experiment, you must use the potato to control the sphere. Collect as many falling cubes as possible in 15 seconds.

by Sarah Idemoto

Arcade game • 28th July -7th Aug

Red Light, Green Light pays homage to the iconic first episode of last year's TV sensation 'Squid Game'. Three players at a time will grab a specially modified green tracksuit top and compete against each other to be the first to 'cross the line'. Don't worry, the penalty for being caught out isn't quite as final as in the show..

by Tom Dixon, Maya Zosmer

Arcade game • 28th July
Bookable game • 30th - 31th July & 6th - 7th Aug

Can we touch and move each other on the internet?

STRINGS is an interactive performance that gives audiences the power to control and dictate the body movements of a dancer remotely, using their mobile phones connected to wearable devices. The audience is introduced to the dancer as she battles anxiety, apathy, and a sense of isolation. Throughout the interactive performance, they are invited to hold her from a distance, each instruction acting as invisible strings to (re)animate her, ultimately helping her rekindle a connection to the people and world around her.

by Unwired Dance Theatre

Arcade game • 23rd - 31st July

A haunted room.

Use mirrors.

Restless Spirit Projector was originally designed for Now Play This.

Viviane Schwarz (Design, art and physical elements), Joon van H (technical development)

Amber Hsu (writing and performance)

John Peacock (sound and music)

Voices by Amber Hsu, Jason Mitchell, Alexis Deacon and John Peacock

Arcade game • 7th Aug only

The Detective Society make immersive play-at-home detective games. Solve puzzles, investigate clues, message characters and use all of your detective skills to solve the case.

Designers: Joe Mills, Tristan Rogers, Dan Wiseman

Arcade game • All dates

Tenya Wanya Teens is a coming-of-age tale about love, hygiene, monsters and finding discarded erotic magazines in the woods.

Tenya Wanya Teens is a silly party game for two players, each grappling with sixteen buttons.

co-created by Uvula, Wild Rumpus and Venus Patrol.

Arcade game • All dates

Line Wobbler has 10 levels that increase in difficulty and can be completed in 10-20 minutes, culminating at a boss fight. In the game, the player is represented by a green dot that has to reach the other end of the strip where a colourful portal marks the exit. The player is moved by bending the spring in the corresponding direction.

by Robin Baumgarten

Arcade game • 23rd July & 7th Aug

ClueCapers have taken the escape game out of the room and into the City of Winchester with their unique puzzle boxes in which each layer must be unlocked from the next. Hands-on puzzles are solved by reference to clues found a short distance from a picnic rug. We're bringing the grounds of Winchester Cathedral to the Escapade Arcade for your puzzling entertainment; picnic rug not required, no rain forecast.

by ClueCapers Escape Rooms, Winchester

Arcade game • All dates

One of the puzzles from Oubliette’s 2015 game Escape From New Pelagia.

created by Mink ette
on loan from Josh Hadley

Arcade game • All dates

A different pattern every time. Something you can take home with you.

by V Buckenham

Bookable game • All dates

A location-based 'Escape Room Go!' game that will boggle your brain, stretch your legs and tickle your funny bone.

Welcome to the ‘Department of Amazing & Fantastical Things’. Your mission is to locate and retrieve twelve highly dangerous monster eggs. Prepare yourselves agents for a puzzle-packed monster hunt. It’s going to be eggcellent. It’s going to be eggciting, It’s going to be eggtraordinary! Give me a “shell-yeah!” for ‘Fantastic Monster Eggs and Where to Find Them’

by BewilderBox of Brighton

Bookable game • 30 July

From a team of top USA immersive puzzle and escape room designers, comes The Traveler's Guide to Little Sodaburg, a whimsical collaborative online adventure game for 2 to 6 players.

Players enter the world of Little Sodaburg, a seaside town with a fishy history, and must journey through time and space to unlock a centuries-old mystery. Are there conspiracies dating back to the beginning of life on Earth? No, no of course not, it's totally just a lovely tour of a lovely town.

This event is screened in the Escapade cave theatre room, we will be providing 2 laptops to the group to share, for interacting with the puzzles directly. If you want to bring your own laptop to play on you are welcome to do so, the game requires a Chrome Browser.