Your Turn
Our live monthly game show at the Bella Union in Carlton where the audience faces off against our two guest teams.
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Now Life In This House
A new durational role-playing game based on Chekov’s The Cherry Orchard
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#TrueRomansAll
We all know how Julius Caesar meets his end in Shakespeare’s play… but this isn’t a play.
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Spirits Walk
A Lost Waif, a Wandering Entertainer, a King by the River… the spirits of Melbourne must find the forgotten and impossible Gods who walk the streets as the sun is setting…
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Fresh Air 2014 trailer
Run from monsters, seek out ancient spirits and carry out secret missions as Fed Square is once again turned into a giant playground with our 2014 Fresh Air Festival.
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This Is A Door 2013 trailer
A month long festival of games, play and participatory performance presented by Melbourne’s New Games designers and playful companies.
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Focal Point trailer
A story telling game for all ages for the State Library of Victoria’s Carnival of Curiosity.
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Ben McKenzie
A 2012 interview from film maker James Tresise
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Sayraphim Lothian
A 2012 interview from film maker James Tresise
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Robert Reid
A 2012 interview from film maker James Tresise
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Playtesting Office Wars
A short film showing our game design process via playtesters.
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Feed Your Family
A team game utalising puppetry, spectacle and theft, first played at the Fresh Air Festival in 2013.
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New Games: Play in the UK
A new documentary about social and pervasive gaming filmed in the UK by Pop Up Playground’s Robert Reid and Sayraphim Lothian.
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Fresh Air trailer
Fresh Air is an outdoor games festival with a range of new games and playful activities from local, national and international companies to be held in Feb 2013.
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The Curse, filmed by Lawrence Leung
The lovely Lawrence Leung bought a camera along to film his experience of playing The Curse. November 2012
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The Curse
The Curse, a creepy game played behind the tents and through the crowds of The Village. November 2012
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What is Pop Up Playground
A trailer looking at what we do and how we play, August 2012.
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This Is A Door
Our international indoor games festival, July 2012.
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Mass Werewolf at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Pop Up Playground designed a modification of the traditional werewolf parlour game for the Melbourne Comedy Festival in April 2012.
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Game.Play at NGV Studio 2
The second public play day held by Pop Up Playground at the National Gallery of Victoria Studio, Fed Square. 29th October 2011.
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Game.Play at NGV Studio 1
The first public play day held by Pop Up Playground at the National Gallery of Victoria Studio, Fed Square. 1st October 2011.
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