{"id":479,"date":"2016-04-01T06:57:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-01T06:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/?p=479"},"modified":"2016-07-04T18:27:52","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:27:52","slug":"the-second-now-play-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/2016\/04\/01\/the-second-now-play-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Now Play This 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*click through gallery above*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Now Play This returned to the New Wing of Somerset House for a second year on 1st \u2013 3rd April 2016, running as part of the London Games Festival. The three-day event included nearly a hundred games to play, including some created especially for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The festival is designed to showcase the wider possibilities of games. The peculiar, the beautiful, the deeply experimental. It\u2019s a place for games that get us playing in new and wonderful ways \u2013 whether that\u2019s in groups, on our own, outside, inside, on or underneath tables. Games that send us running across courtyards, games situated on nearby screens, games that take place entirely in our heads.<\/p>\n<p>Some highlights included<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Qubit\u00a0from Simon Johnson: a new sport played in the Somerset House courtyard with a real live quantum computer<\/li>\n<li>New commissions made especially for the festival including\u00a0Get Lost!\u00a0from S Woodson;\u00a0Castles Made Of Castles\u00a0from Nico Disseldorp; and\u00a0Sett\u00a0from Gary Campbell and Jeannine\u00a0Inglis Hall<\/li>\n<li>Inks\u00a0from State of Play in a custom-designed pinball cabinet<\/li>\n<li>Gorgeous installations including\u00a0Orthogonal \/ Diagonal\u00a0from Nova Jiang,\u00a0Escalado Reshod\u00a0from Josh Wilde, and\u00a0Shiki-On\u00a0from Miyu Hayashi<\/li>\n<li>Books, board games, walks, special showcase events, a mini-conference of microtalks<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2026and about 90 more games over the course of the three days. See <a href=\"http:\/\/nowplaythis.net\">the Now Play This website<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Now Play This was funded by the Arts Council and Games London, and was part of\u00a0UTOPIAS: A Year of Imagination and Possibility at Somerset House.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*click through gallery above* Now Play This returned to the New Wing of Somerset House for a second year on 1st \u2013 3rd April 2016, running as part of the London Games Festival. The three-day event included nearly a hundred games to play, including some created especially for the weekend. The festival is designed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,2,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":545,"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mathesonmarcault.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}