PLAY21

The PLAY - CREATIVE GAMING FESTIVAL invited to celebrate the culture of digital games online, hybrid, and on-site from November 5 to 13, 2021. For the first time, workshops, exhibitions, shows, roundtables, and talks offered nine days of participation, discussion, programming, exploration, and, of course, gaming. Participants decided for themselves how to visit the festival: stream, virtual festival location, or digital game worlds – all roads led to PLAY21.

According to the motto RESTART TOGETHER!, last year's festival focused on the past and the future, on isolation and communitarization, on proximity and distance. PLAY21 explored the role of games in a (post-)pandemic society and dealt with questions like how games bring us together in a global crisis, how they give hope, become alternative places of encounter, and how game culture will change after and because of Covid-19.