Beyond Screens: Alt+Ctrl Games w/ Enric Granzotto Llagostera

Enric is a game maker and researcher from São Paulo, Brazil. His ongoing PhD research at Concordia University (Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Canada) focuses on questioning what is alternative about alternative controllers. In 2019 he released Cook Your Way, a game about capitalism and immigration that was shown at altctrlGDC 2019, and received the Explorer award at A MAZE 2020. He also worked on the gambi_abo series of open cardboard controllers and on altctrls.info, a website compiling information about making alternative controller games. Enric is interested in unconventional and particularly anti-capitalist ways of making, circulating and playing games.

https://enric.llagostera.com.br/

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