That's a wrap on the 13th edition of A MAZE. / Berlin! Turns out 13 was our lucky number 🦩
So many people traveled from all over to celebrate arthouse games — thank you for joining us 🫶
(🗓️ & mark your calendars because next year's festival runs May 14-17, 2025!)
(Drumroll please...)
Esteemed guests, you can now...
🔥 DOWNLOAD AND ENTER THE A MAZE. / SPACE!!! 🔥
Time to reach our ultimate form, the 🦩.
Together 🤝
➡️
This is really really unbelievable! We are fully funded! 108%! Thank you so so much!!!! Your love and your support made
#amazenotdead
.
@Sosowski
captured the insane thank you mode of
@ST0RN0
during the artist in residence
#thebrain
for 120 years of
@GaumontTV
exhibition.
#Love
!
THANK YOU TO 🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩🦩 and 🦩!!!!
Good morning Europe and Africa. We just kicked off our
#amazenotdead
campaign. Are you hot to support A MAZE.?
Check out our cool history of events and our positive future with you.
Let's show how strong the games community believes in art and culture.
The A MAZE. / SPACE will reopen in autumn and stays open for regularly changing exhibitions and events.
Contact us, ask us via space(at) if you want to collaborate with us.
thanks
@Sosowski
for the 1min video.
Also in the 2nd application round for A MAZE. / Berlin 2020/2021 we got rejected by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe Department of Culture. Don't know what to say - nor how to continue !
#sadposting
The home for the A MAZE. / Berlin 2020 festival will be "Neuzeit Ost" at Modersohnstr. 49A. This warehouse is amazing and offers an outside area for a more authentic
A MAZE. experience. More pictures and plans soon!
#AMaze2020
#arthousegames
#playfulmediafest
#gamesweekberlin
To all of our team members, volunteers, partners, speakers, & sponsors — thank you for all of your hard work making the 12th A MAZE. Festival a smashing success!
And thank you to everyone who traveled from near and far to share the experience with us. 🎮
See you next year! 🦩
Congratulations to the 25 nominees + 16 honourable mentions + the 5 Humble New Talent Award nominees. Thanks to all submitters and the selection commitee. The award show will be on July 23 at 8p.m.
#AMaze2021
#arthousegames
#indiedev
#playfulmedia
"We are many, so A MAZE. won't just die" implicates that we decided to run our first
@kickstarter
to bypass the missing budget for more planning security, sustainable structure, commissioned works, theme orientated programme and exhibition and show how relevant we are!
#AMaze2020
Here we go!! 🎉🎉🎉
From 287 amazing submissions, the selection committee and the
#AMaze2023
team choose 30 groundbreaking works and 13 honorable mentions from 28 countries. Congrats!! ❤️The final jury is taking over now -> Award Show on May 12!
🥳
Thank you to the friends and the community around us for your strong commitment the last days! We are many, so
A MAZE. won't just die. A MAZE. / Berlin 2020 will happen as planned funded by
@medienboard
and as part of the
@gamesweekberlin
.
#AMazeForever
*WINNER*
LONG FEATURE AWARD
The winner of the "Long Feature" award goes to… Hollow Ponds with "I am Dead" (UK)
Congrats to
@hllwpnds
!
“I am dead is a game where life & death is full of little secrets to discover - carefully woven into multiple little stories.” -
@Bleeptrack
A MAZE. Awards 2021
10th edition is open for submissions until April 30. We
love games and playful media based on meaning, story, expression, change, interdisciplinarity, social/cultural/political impact, aesthetics and fun.
Link:
#AMaze2021
Play at
#AMaze2018
Like Roots In The Soil, a short story about two guys walking towards a common destiny, a narrative game experience sets across two different times that you can unveal rotating the scene by
@SpaceBackyard
#AMazeAwards
#gamedev
#indiedev
It's coming ! Our
#AmazeNotDead
kickstarter is almost there. On Nov 4th we are going online ! Get as excited as we are and support A MAZE. for a continuously positive, radical and inclusive celebration of games as art and culture.
Experience the A MAZE. / SPACE no matter where you are in the world!
All nominated
#AMazeAwards
games have a virtual booth and you can vote for your favorite game for the Audience Award!
DOWNLOAD NOW:
👉
🎀 The time has come to announce the nominees and honorable mentions for this years festival
#AMaze2019
🎉 Congratulations everyone, looking forward to playing those games!
#playfulmedia
#indiedev
#altgames
Now!
The 11th A MAZE. Awards are open for submissions until Feb 28, 2022. The award show will be on May 17 live from Berlin + a day of programme and celebration of (arthouse) games and playful media.
To the submission link:
#AMaze2022
#arthousegames
We are pleased to announce the nominees for the 2024 A MAZE. Awards!
The A MAZE. Awards celebrate games and playful media that push the medium to its extremes.
Check out the nominees & honorees in the 🧵 below ⬇️
Congrats to all selected works!
#AMaze2024
#AMazeAwards
Farewell to
@LorenzoPilia
for being our program wizard for the last 6 years. Thank you! <3 We will miss u for all your amazing work you did.
The virtual farewell / welcome party will follow ! YEAH!
Celebrating together and welcoming our new program curator
@zoewi
. <3
Congratulations to all the winners!!!
And congratulations to all the nominees!!!
And congratulations to those who got honorable mentions!!!
And congratulations to everybody who submitted! Please keep making games and things!!!!!!!!!!
We have the new location after long back and forth confirmed. Tomorrow we'll share all the good news about it.
It's going to be in Friedrichshain again.
Not far from RAW Area!
Have a lovely Sunday.
<3
#AMaze2020
#playfulmediafest
#gamesweekberlin
🤲 INTRODUCING 🤲
THE A MAZE 2021 PROGRAM!
We're so excited for this year's festival, and the schedule is stronger than ever for our TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY 🍾
Head over to take a look and pick up tickets!
🥁 It's the moment you've been waiting for: the schedule for
#AMaze2019
is online!
💎 💎
🎟️ You still don't have a ticket? Get one here:
🎪 We are not recording the talks this year so join us in person to hear all the goodness
The Audience Award goes to 'Viewfinder' by Sad Owl Studios (United Kingdom, Philippines, United States, Norway, Spain, Finland)!
#AMazeAwards
#AMaze2023
*WINNER*
MOST AMAZING GAME AWARD
🥁🥁🥁
And the winner is:
@IdaHrtmnn
&
@NiilaGames
with Stilstand (DK)
“Stilstand is a beautifully realized interactive graphic novel that is painfully relatable in its whimsical + absurd portrayal of anxiety, loneliness + despair.” -
@FellatiaG
🦩What a festival!
🦩What a community!
🦩What a team!
We are still recovering but wanted to send a big thank you to everyone who attended
#AMaze2022
in person and online. This was such a heartwarming experience and we are happy that we got to see a lot of you in person!
💗
You can now register and secure your free tickets for A MAZE. / Berlin 2020 - Total Digital!
Starting July 22, this will NOT be just a stream, but a full online festival experience 😎
🎟️
#amaze2020
Guten Morgen from the A MAZE. / SPACE. We're live again.
PLAY20 - November 4-8, 2020 -
@_PLAYfestival
- Talks, Workshops, Performances, Games and more. Experience the incredible festival programme in our immersive culture space.
Alll infos:
Enjoy!
All talk videos are finally online now! This link brings you to a playlist of 73 videos shot during A MAZE. / Berlin 2018. Thank you to all the artists on stage. Share and Enjoy !
#AMaze2018
-
Let's party together! This Saturday, come over to A MAZE. JUMP 'N' RUN Party, a digital/virtual hangout with music by DJ
@ST0RN0
and good vibes by the beautiful A MAZE. community.
🍹 Saturday 9PM UTC+2 🎈
Save the date and come get the key on the Facebook event or here.
🤑🍴 EAT (THE) RICH GAME JAM 🍴🤑
The A MAZE. Online Game Jam is back!
This year's theme: Eat (the) Rich. Let's create some experiences that stir the hunger...for justice. All participating games will be showcased at A MAZE.
Join the jam ➡️
Tickets now available!
A MAZE. / Sheffield - GLUM Special Party Edition comes to FORGE Warehouse on 2nd August 🦩☀️🦩☀️
Experience this one-day event, with amazing alternative games, awesome live music and a special edition of Hypertalks. Find out more:
AHHHH ! It is confirmed! We are half way throught and with your support we've reached almost 51% .
#amazenotdead
. If you have a party ta next days tune in our campaign song as loud as possible to make more noise!
We love you! Have an amazing weekend!<3
*WINNER*
HUMBLE NEW TALENT
@colestia
@colestia
stands out by not only having a strong focus on left politics through all his works, he also manages to experiment on different styles of games, even featuring an extraordinarily playful method of storytelling in his latest work.
We're over the moon with the reception that the festival is getting so far. The opening evening was so, much, fun!! Thank you to everybody joining and bringing the best vibes!
Now we're even more excited about the next couple of days 💓
Let's 🦩!!!!!!
Announcing the A MAZE. / Berlin Steam Festival 🦩
Experience A MAZE.-ing games at home! The Steam Fest kicks off May 8 at 7pm CEST, offering discounts & demos for games featured at A MAZE. from 2012-2024.
You'll also be able to watch festival livestreams directly in Steam 📺
A MAZE. / Berlin 2019 is on April 10-14. Saved! The hot summer ticket for the most amazing game festival experience is available now. Only 50€ instead of regular 150€. Catch the early monster or not!
#AMaze2019
#altgames
#artgames
#playfulmedia
#indiedev
192 games from 36 countries submitted to the 7th A MAZE. Awards - 25 nominees will get revealed end of February! And welcome our final jury for April with Sarah Northway, Peggy Schoenegge, Leena Kejriwal, Robert Yang and Jack King-Spooner.
#AMaze2018
🦩 Almost ready to open the doors! 💓
The A MAZE. / SPACE download will be available in a few hours.
And at 8PM (Berlin Time) Director
@ST0RN0
will give the Opening Speech 🔥 You can join from inside the space or via stream.
See you there!
📢We are thrilled to present to you A MAZE. / BERLIN 2022 Nominees, Honorable mentions, and Jury
📰Read all about it here:
🎟️And be sure to get your ticket to experience all the games and this years program:
Congrats to everyone!
A MAZE. / Berlin 2024 - 13th International Games and Playful Media Festival is on
May 8-11, 2024 at Silent Green and Panke in
#Berlin
.
After the festival is before the festival. Save the dates and see you back next year.
#AMaze2024
Attention please: A MAZE. / Berlin 2019 is from April 10-13, 2019 - that means we have Saturday talk, performance and music programme until Sunday April 14, 2019 - 2 a.m. at least. The rest of the sunday will be off for some Berlin tourist actions.
#AMaze2019
#positivechaos
With more than 10.000 participants across all our festival spaces, over 4 days, and lots of positive feedback, the first A MAZE. / Berlin - Total Digital has been a success!
To our amazing partners who made this possible: Thank you all!
#mbbgef
ördert
#AMaze2020
#totaldigital
The A MAZE. / SPACE is a 3D multiplayer culture experience where you can watch live-streamed festival talks & music performances, play games, and interact with other people.
And it's 100% free to download and play.
Get it now 👉
A MAZE. goes Hongkong
#AMaze2021
This first step is co-curated by
@ST0RN0
. It's going to be a blast with talks, panel, and an online alt.ctrl game jam together with
@MechBird
.
👉Registration link and more info.
We're thrilled to announce that CTM Cyberia is finally locked and (down)loaded! The digital, dizzying exhibition space will run from February 13th until March 14th, giving you plenty of time to wander its erratic and enticing architecture. Learn more via:
We're hyped to collaborate with Ender Gallery, an artist residency and exhibition space that exists inside Minecraft. The first two residents at Ender will be part of A MAZE. / Berlin.
Until Jan 31 you can apply here for that paid residency.
#AMAZE2021
Step into a community of game enthusiasts at the A MAZE. Village!
Play games, network, and chat with indie studios, universities, collectives, and A MAZE. partners and sponsors 🦩
Learn more ➡️