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Fresh Air Schedule
Fresh Air offers you a range of awesome things to do.
- There are big games going on all around Fed Square usually starting a new one every hour.
- There are little games going on the stage of The Edge and you can go down and play them when ever you like.
- In the foyer of the Edge we have set up a bunch of Constructive Play activities and you can use them to make whatever you like.
- If you’ve got kids with you we’ve got kids games running down on River Terrace all afternoon.
- There’s also a couple of ambient games which start at HQ but might take you all over Fed square, that you can do on your own or in groups and go at your own pace.
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Playtest 4 for Fresh Air
Sunday the 20th was our last playtest for Fresh Air 2013 games. As a good warm up, we started off with a game of Turtle Wushu from Invisible Playground, but in our case it was Dinosaur Wushu owing to the fact we only have toy dinosaurs. We discovered that toy dinosaurs are way more unstable than toy turtles, at least that’s what we claim.
Next up was our brand new game Tourist Attractors, in which several tour guides take players around Fed Square and make up increasingly bizarre stories to attempt to capture and hold the tourist’s interest.
All through out the day Melbourne company No Show was trialing Outside Line, a tense single person experience which is like nothing else we have at Fresh Air.
Next we playtested The Host, where our players are trapped on a colony on Mars which has been infiltrated by one or more alien. Can they find enough evidence to figure out who it is?
And to round out the day we had another playtest of our slightly-reworked Bury Yer Treasure, where pirates pillage from each other and battle it out on the high seas for loot n’ sailors.
Remember, Fresh Air is on the 8, 9 and 10 of Feb at Federation Square in Melbourne. The whole event is free, so come down and play all of these games and more!
Playtest 3 for Fresh Air
We spent the weekend playtesting the last of the games for Fresh Air, we played so many we thought it was best to split the post into two. So Saturday we took loads of boxes and interesting props to Federation Square to try some games out.
First up was Holy Cow, Sacred Udder by Team Hat (UK) where teams of farm animals attempt to fill their udders with the most sacred liquid to avoid the slaughterhouse.
Next we played Gobstopper Job by Zombie LARP (UK), a great cops and robbers game for two teams of conniving thieves.
Then we trialled out Guardians of Hidden Universes by Universe Creation 101 (AUS) which is a single player experience which encourages you to look at the world in a different way, via a web-based phone app.
Last up before lunch we tested out Feed Your Family, one of our brand new games. Each team of three players need to work together using a giant bird puppet to pick up as many worms as possible and run them back to the nest. Confrontations are fought out with loud squarking and posturing.
During lunch we came up with another game to play through the Book Market that Federation Square hosts every weekend. It’s so new it doesn’t have a name yet, but it proved that quickly developed games can work just as well as those with months of work and prop development.
After lunch we played Movie of You, another of our brand spankin’ new games. Teams are let loose on Fed Square and have to make a 30 second trailer for an upcoming movie via their smart phones. One team even found a knight of old to star in their movie.
Last up we played Blind Trust, a game by a new Melbourne games company Killkenny games. Blindfolded teams have to make their way around the play space lead only by the sound of a leader’s voice. But does the person shouting you instructions have your best interests at heart?
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New Games – Play in the UK documentary launch Jan 29, 7pm
Last year, Robert and Sayraphim went over to the UK to make a documentary investigating companies over there who make games and playful situations.
We’re launching this documentary, New Games – Play in the UK, on the Big Screen at Federation Square, on the 29th of January at 7pm. It runs approx. 40 mins.
New Games features interviews with Holly Gramazio from Hide and Seek, Gwyn Morfey from Fire Hazard, Vee Uye and Andrew Crofts from Larkin’ About, Kars Alfrink and Tim Bosje from Hubbub, Grant Howett from Zombie LARP, James Wheale from Slingshot, Rosie Fairchild from Splash and Ripple, Tom Bowtell and Annette Mees from Coney, Matt Johnson from Haberdashery Collective, Matthew Robbins and Viviane Schwarz.
It’s a free event, so come down to Fed Square and grab a front row deck chair for the screening!
Fresh Air trailer
Our Fresh Air Festival (8, 9, and 10 February at Federation Square) now has a brand new trailer!
Check it out for some idea of the craziness in store.
Fresh Air trailer from popupplayers on Vimeo.
Spy Catcher at the Bally, Melbourne
Spy Catcher is back on, for one night only!
We’re all spies here – but double agents are murdering our top assets. Your mentor stands among the accused. Are they guilty? Can you really trust a spy? And will you find out – before it’s too late?
Join us for Spy Catcher, a large-scale game of bluffing and accusation adapted from the popular parlour game Werewolf, in which your favourite performers are your only hope – and your deadliest enemies.. Check out the photos from our Fringe Festival Club night here.
Our great Bally On High line-up of spies includes:
* Magician LEE COHEN, President of Australian Institute of Magic
* Comedian NICHOLAS J JOHNSON, Australia’s Honest Conman
* Actor DAVE LAMB (The Bazura Project, Bell Shakespeare)
* Playwright and novelist VAN BADHAM
Spy Catcher returns for ONE NIGHT ONLY at The Bally
Date: Thursday, 7 Feb, 2013
Time: 6:30pm – 9pm
Venue: The Bally, Northcote Town Hall, 189 High Street, Northcote, VIC.
Tickets: Full $18, Concession and group 6+ $15, purchase from Carnival Tix
We’ll see you there!
Playtest 2 for Fresh Air
On Sunday we had our second playtest for Fresh Air.
We started out with Larkin’ About‘s Attack The Block where the Red, Green and Blue Teams attempted to take over each other’s territory. This was made even more interesting by the fact that Fed Square now has 250 Christmas trees scattered around the main playing area.
Next, we played Obscure Games‘ Nashville, where our players were gunslingers from the Wild West, using their best poker hand to win shootouts. You ain’t never had a shootout in the middle of summer in a forest of Xmas trees like this!
Finally, we playtested one of our own games, Tourist Attractor, where three players were Tour Guides who made up increasingly bizarre stories about different aspects of Fed Square.
Thanks to everyone who attended! We’ll have a final playtest in January, so keep an eye out for announcements about that soon…
They’re behind you, a responce by Emilie Collyer
We’re very proud to announce our new Writer in Residence – Emilie Collyer! Emilie writes plays, performance words, fiction and poetry and in between all that she’s also one of our Pop Up Playtesters. We asked Emilie to respond creatively to playing The Curse at The Village with us.
They’re behind you
by Emilie Collyer
It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
They met playing a simple game and swiftly became a tight gang of three. Like the Famous Five or the Secret Seven, but only three.Read More
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