Hide and Seek is a festival of social games and playful experiences. The 2008 festival ran in London from the 27th to the 29th of June, and encompassed everything from fine artists making location-based work to huge flashmob games within the public spaces of the Southbank Centre.

Although the festival is now over for this year, you can keep up with related events and other pervasive gaming news by reading the Sandpit weblog.

The Hide and Seek festival celebrates the creative and social aspects of gaming, and invites artists from all disciplines to experiment with game design as a creative tool. This year saw projects from Blast Theory, Gideon Reeling, Momus, Jane McGonigal, and Coney, as well as parties, seminars, and a bunch of low-tech, high-fun games from the Sandpit.

The focal point of this year's festival was the Ballroom at the Royal Festival Hall, where players could sign up for the big events, hire out devices to try GPS gaming, play Sandpit games, and interact with a variety of weird and playful installations.