Newsletter – 10-12 2016
October 2016
“Larperiada”, a new larp initiative by gamedecs, launched in Bydgoszcz
3 October – the fourth run of “BiblioGRAfia”, an inaugural library game for freshman gamedecs organised by second-year gamedecs
13-16 October – mgr Piotr Milewski at the Internationale Spieltage in Essen, Germany
19 October – Dr. Michał Mochocki speaks at Digital Workshops in Bydgoszcz
20-22 October – Dr. Paweł Schreiber and Dr. Aleksandra Mochocka speak at Central and Eastern European Game Studies Conference in Lublin
21-23 October – gamedec team as volunteer staff, Dr. Michał Mochocki as speaker and academic board member with Game Industry Conference in Poznań
22 October – gamedec Maciej Sola with Wastelands Interactive awarded for the best game booth at Poznan Game Arena
24-25 October – Dr. Aleksandra Mochocka and Dr. Michał Mochocki speak at the Games Research Association of Poland’s conference in Poznań
27-30 October – mgr Piotr Milewski as staff member for the Convention of Thorns blockbuster larp at the Książ castle
November 2016
8 November – guest lecture on Game journalism by Michał “ManJak” Adamczak
17 November – mgr Piotr Milewski speaks at TEDxGdynia
19-20 November – we host and co-organise Huuuge Game Jam in Bydgoszcz
20-22 November – Dr. Aleksandra Mochocka speaks at GamesLit, International Conference Series in Games and Literary Theory
26 November – 51 Board Games Night in Bydgoszcz
December 2016
6 December – dr Paweł Schreiber with a guest lecture at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
14 December – Pog(R)adajmy Bydgoszcz
14 December – Bydgoszcz-based Wild Boars team, winners of the Huuuge Game Jam in November, now take the first prize at the national Gala Game Jam Awards in Warsaw
16 December – new gamedec-created larp “The Hateful Twenty” played at the Western Hotel near Bydgoszcz
December 2016 – the 9th issue of “Homo Ludens” comes out, including three papers by Gamedec.UKW staff: Dr. Aleksandra Mochocka and Dr. Michał Mochocki
