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Partners 2010
The Come Out & Play Festival woudn't be possible without the generous support of our partners and sponsors.
We're a production company that creates immersive multi-media narrative experiences, both independently and for clients. It is our belief that this emerging cultural form is not only the future of entertainment, but part of a larger breakthrough in the advancement of communication. What differentiates us in this field is our expertise in creating real-world physical adventures with a singular eye toward storyline, aesthetics, and tangibility.
SCVNGR is a geo-gaming platform that enables anyone to quickly and easily build location-based mobile games, tours, and interactive experiences that can be enjoyed from any mobile device.
The NYU Game Center, established in 2008, is an independent, multi-school center for the research, design and development of digital games. The Center is housed at the Tisch School in the Skirball Center for New Media and is a collaboration with NYU's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. Its goal is to incubate new ideas, create partnerships, and establish a multi-school curriculum to explore new directions for the creative development and critical understanding of games. In so doing, the Game Center will help establish New York City as a place of innovation and creativity within this important field.
ESI Design is one of the world's foremost experiential design firms. We create social spaces and communication platforms that help a wide range of clients and their audiences interact through the power of collaboration. ESI is committed to designing experiences that inspire and enable play, exploration, discovery and learning.
From movie stars, musicians, and skate-boarders to toys, technology, and history, Giant Robot magazine covers cool aspects of Asian and Asian-American pop culture. Paving the way for less knowledgeable media outlets, Giant Robot put the spotlight on Chow Yun Fat, Jackie Chan, and Jet Li years before they were in mainstream America's vocabulary.
The Old Stone House, a Historic House Trust of New York City site, commemorates the Vechte-Cortelyou House's unique place in Brooklyn and American history. Through exhibits, programs and events, we preserve the House's rich past while contributing to Brooklyn's contemporary cultural community.
IndieCade supports independent game development and organizes a series of international events showcasing the future of independent games. It encourages, publicizes, and cultivates innovation and artistry in interactive media, helping to create a public perception of games as rich, diverse, artistic, and culturally significant. IndieCade's events and related production and publication programs are designed to bring visibility to and facilitate the production of new works within the emerging independent game movement.
We connect people and places through play. The future of fun is in games that you take with you. Games that help you meet new people. Games that help you explore the real-world, as well as the virtual world. These are the sort of games we make.
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The Organizers The festival is actually run by people we swear.
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Our Mission The Come Out & Play Festival seeks to provide a forum for new types of public games and play. We want to bring together a public eager to rediscover the world around them through play with designers interested in producing innovative new games and experiences. Oh yeah, and we want to have city-size fun.
Information for The Press HI-RES PHOTOS FOR PRESS: Press may use images and photos. Please note and (when possible) hyperlink to the festival. When using photos, also note corresponding game title and credit photographer. Photographer's name is indicated by folder title. Game title is indicated in image names. For more information (rules, etc.) about specific games, please visit 2008 schedule or 2009 schedule. Photos from 2006 and 2007 available upon request (contact info below)
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Contact
General Information e: gtrefry(at)comeoutandplay(dot)org p: 646-280-8311
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