Beyond Screens – Big Games, Presented by Come Out and Play, with Matt Parker

Matt Parker is a game designer, activist, new media artist and Professor at the NYU Game Center. His work has been displayed at the American Museum of Natural History, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the NY Hall of Science, Museum of the Moving Image, FILE Games Rio, the New Zealand Festival, and many other venues. In 2018 he co-founded the OpenAir Collective, a global volunteer network that empowers its members to fight climate change through carbon emissions reduction and removal.

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IndieCade’s Twitch show exploring work that pushes the boundaries of, or comes entirely off the screen. Genres covered will include participatory theatre, alternate reality and live action roleplaying; escape rooms; Big Games; and alternative controllers. Each hour-long episode will feature an in-depth conversation with creators of these genre-defining games.

Airing noon Pacific on Wednesdays, weekly shows will be co-hosted by organizations and creators in monthly rotation as follows:

• First Wednesday – Playable Theatre – Hosted by the Playable Theatre Project
• Second Wednesday – Escape Rooms – Presented by Room Escape Artists
• Third Wednesday – Big Games – Presented by Come Out and Play
• Fourth Wednesday – Alternative Controllers –  with Tatiana Vilela dos Santos and Alistair Aitcheson