Playing History: Tackling Europe´s Past with Video Games

Organizer: media:net berlinbrandenburg e.V.

games:net Berlin Europe kindly invites you to an exciting online panel via Zoom. On the early evening of March 24th, we will talk with three international game studios about the topic “Playing History: Tackling Europe´s Past with Video Games”. In this discussion, we will be joined by representatives of Paintbucket Games from Berlin, Charles Games from Prague and Sarepta Studio from Hamar, Norway. With “Through the Darkest of Times”, “My Child Lebensborn” and “Attentat 1942” each studio decided to allow players to interact with very heavy topics of historical relevance through the medium of games.

Moderator Andreas Garbe and the representatives of the studios will talk about their intentions with the games, what it takes to bring such serious topics into a virtual and playable world and how the games were received by the audience, and the impact with policy makers and in media coverage.

More information can be found here.