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Now Play This 2018 Programme
A small collection of essays and games
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Now Play This 2015

The first ever Now Play This ran from 4-6 September 2015. We showed about forty games; ten of these are below.

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OASES
kaleidoscopic elegiac flyscape
Armel Gibson
PANORAMICAL
​Prepare yourself for an interactive sensory journey unlike anything you've ever played before.
Finji
Beeswing
Discover a world of stories in a handcrafted game set in rural Scotland.
jackspinoza
Play in browser
Casual Games for Casual Hikers
Tiny storytelling games and performance scores for gentle walks outdoors.
Aitch Giles
inflorescence.city
the textual detrius of a generated city
Everest Pipkin
Run in browser
Prowl
Dark jazz and rainy streets
House Of Wire
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Snow Cones: Episode 1
A frozen treat dating simulor
TeamLazerBeam
Simulation
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen
Draknek
Puzzle
Fish Fly
Frolic nude in the fountain of your youth
Froach Club
Shooter
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Sagittarius
Competitive cosmic archery!
George Prosser
Action

Now Play This 2016

Some of the games we showed at Now Play This 2016!

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Wibble Wobble
it's a wibbly wobbly world
Daniel Linssen
Action
asphyx
you, player, are going underwater.
droqen
Platformer
Play in browser
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Slam City Oracles
a rambunctious, riot grrrl, Katamari-meets-Grand Theft Auto physics game
jane friedhoff
Action
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Palimpscreensaver
Screensaver inspired from our game Palimpseste
Le Chant du cygne
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Metamorphabet
A playful, interactive alphabet.
Vectorpark
Get Lost!
A nine-way story
S. Woodson
Interactive Fiction
Push Me Pull You
A videogame about friendship and wrestling
House House
Sports
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Cobra Club HD
(NEW IN 2016: HD remaster!) free dick pic game about bodies / privacy
Robert Yang
Simulation
Guppy
2D watercolor fish simulation
Christiaan Moleman
Simulation
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Imaginal
Catch lightning bugs, chill, chat.
Wertle
Forager
Find a den to call your own. Forage for food, decoration and grass to build your nest
Cat And Nate
Action Painting Pro
Discover your inner Pollock
Ian MacLarty
Platformer

Now Play This 2017

A few of the games we showed Now Play This 2017, which ran at Somerset House in London from 7-9 April, as part of the London Games Festival. Get a taste of the festival if you couldn't make it in person, or revisit some favourites if you co...

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10000 YEARS
This place is not a place of honor.
Heather Flowers
Adventure
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Sacramento
fresh air and flamingos ~
Dziff
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Wish Fishing
contemplative divination software
Pol Clarissou
Our Bleak-Ass Writing Competition at the Ragged Verge of Spacetime
A vindictive party game for nineteenth-century masters of literature to play at the end of the world
Laura Michet
Tangled Paths
Narrative card game heavily inspired on Calvino's “The Castle of Crossed Destinies”
Ludipe
Deadbolt: A Virtual Guide
An educational resource explaining the game Deadbolt.
Elizabeth Sampat
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Cuckoo Curling
Freestyle curling meets connect four. Now Online!
Grenadine
Sports
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Breakup Squad
A fast and asymmetrical team-based game for five players!
Brooklyn Gamery
Simulation
12 orbits
12 players, one keyboard / smartphone / gamepad / touchscreen / makey makey...
Roman Uhlig
Action
Dariya Kinare
On the River Banks
chaibirkes
Queers in Love at the End of the World
fellas, is it gay to make out in the ashes of capitalism?
anna anthropy
Play in browser
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MORNING MAKEUP MADNESS
q_dork
Simulation
Play in browser
Karambola
Lonely fruits and veggies with emotional problems need your help in this short point and click puzzle/adventure.
holypangolin
Puzzle
Play in browser
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Burly Men at Sea
A branching folktale adventure.
Brain&Brain
Visual Novel
There is a Light That Never Goes Out
Made in 48 hours for the HEADSTART 2015 gamejam
Vaida
Adventure
Play in browser
Istanbul, Texas
A music centric tale of destruction, regret and repair.
dreamfeel
Giraffes Volleyball Championship 2016
simple volleyball multiplayer minigame
sandwich puissant
Sports

Now Play This 2018

Now Play This is a festival of experimental game design, which ran most recently at Somerset House in London from 6-8 April 2018 as part of the London Games Festival - see http://nowplaythis.net for details. This collection includes some...

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Lost Wage Rampage
An over-the-top, fast-paced, driving heist game about closing the gender pay gap
jane friedhoff
Action
Play in browser
The Isle Is Full Of Noises
A storm is upon you. Be not afeard.
dreamfeel
Overground
A flatgame about riding the London Overground in 2016.
Rosa Carbo-Mascarell
Play in browser
TITONIC FISHERMAN
A VERY NORMAL MUSIC SEQUENCER
Froach Club
Rhythm
Play in browser
Freeways
Interchange Design for Autonomous Vehicles
Captain Games
Simulation
The Loss Levels
Fifteen narrative microgames created for Now Play This 2018
danhett
Play in browser
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10 Mississippi
A stop motion game about a daily routine.
Karina Popp
Play in browser
PANORAMICAL
​Prepare yourself for an interactive sensory journey unlike anything you've ever played before.
Finji
CLOUD NINE
Interactive music video about a magical island
Heather Flowers
Adventure
Against Introspection
"As of Tuesday the 13th of February 2018 at 10:55pm it is now illegal to make videogames about videogames."
Michael McMaster
恋物 liàn wù​
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SNAKISMS
Philosophy made of Snakes.
pippinbarr
Action
Play in browser
Doodle Studio 95!
a fun hand-drawn animation tool for Unity!
Fernando Ramallo
TEMPRES
a puzzle, at first
tak
Puzzle
Play in browser
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