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BRIEFS at the A MAZE. Festival
Exhibition BRIEFS-Games
Curated by Evgeni Puzankov and Georg Hobmeier
Short Games Done BRIEF
Panel with Laughingpineapple, Alex Robins, N.B. Spiders and Georg Hobmeier
Thursday, May 15
Betonhalle Stage, A MAZE. Festival
Georg Hobmeier, initiator and curator of the Micro Games series Briefs, together with Evgeni Puzankov, invites you to a talk about very short games at the A MAZE. Festival for International Games and Playful Media.
The game series, which has been running since 2022, has released over 10 games so far, including the much-played "Mondays: a Sisyphean Typing Game" by Alex and Max Robins.
In this panel talk with laughingpineapple (Eva Jucci), Alex Robins and N.B. Spiders, the Briefs talk about the transgressive nature of short games, in an industry that demands length.
We'll talk about what it feels like to make a short game and the challenges that come with it. We can't promise we'll keep it short!
During the festival, the Briefs games will be on display at A MAZE. and will be supervised by the artists present and the curators Evgeni Puzankov and Georg Hobmeier.
Artists:
Alex Robins is a video game developer and playwright based in South West England. He has been making short games for the last five years with Max Robins, his brother. In 2022, they were commissioned by gold extra to create the microgame 'Mondays: A Sisyphean Typing Game' for Briefs. 'Mondays' has had over 100K players and was featured on the front page of itch.io.
Georg Hobmeier curates the short game series Briefs and is part of the art collective gold extra. He crafts games and stories at the crossroads of politics, storytelling, and games, like The Fallen, Path Out, and Gates of Aleppo. With his company, Causa Creations he often creates digital work with cultural partners and NGO, while creating analogue games such as the TTRPG The Hidden Isle on the side.
Eva Jucci (laughingpineapple) is an old-time writer and fresh game developer who keeps hammering the square peg of surrealist principles in the round hole of game design to see what happens.
As half of studio Lichene, she experiments with short hybrid interactive fiction. The duo's latest work, Death to Venice, ranked in Artribune's "best ten games of 2024".
N.B. Spiders (they/them) is a sound and electronics artist and game designer focused on queer forms of play and crip empowerment. Their work has been shown at IndieCade Paris, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and Different Games in New York. They are a co-founder of the videogame label riprip, where they are developing an accessible game engine for creating short-form games.
Evgeni Puzankov is a game maker and narrative designer, exiled from St. Petersburg, who develops absurd, political short, anti-war games, including Baby Labor, Duck Date, Bomber Looks Down and Ahanar . Under the label All Worms he does solo game development, interactive dissent research, narrative design, and curation. As a narrative and game designer, producer and writer, he has worked for A Wayward Winter, Suricate Games, Signus Labs and Playcot, among others.
Websites:
N.B. Spiders: https://spiders.rip/
Alex Robins: https://www.alex-robins.com
Eva Jucci: https://lichene.itch.io/
Georg Hobmeier: https://causacreations.net/ und www.goldextra.com
Evgeni Puzankov: https://all-worms.itch.io/
Festival:
https://2025.amaze-berlin.de/program/
Video Stream Day2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDZCnfM_TN0&t=5217s
Video of the talk:
