The 2008 Hide&Seek Festival took place in and around the Southbank Centre, from
the 27th to 29th of June. All of its games are now over.
Before the Festival
Sandpit #5: Psycho Buildings
The Sandpit
7:00pm to 11:00pm, Friday 30th May at The Hayward Gallery
The Sandpit is the public, collaborative face of Hide and Seek, a monthly opportunity to play old games and playtest new ones.
Day of the Figurines
Blast Theory
Thursday 12th June to Saturday 5th July at Ground Floor, Southbank Centre
Day Of The Figurines is an SMS game set in a grimy English town. Sign on, choose a figurine, then explore the town for up to 24 days.
Thursday 26th June
This is It...
Gideon Reeling's Assistants
7:30pm onwards, Thursday 26th June at a secret location
Get your trainers on, get into the rhythm and get ready for the hot pursuit. This Is It... will take you on an unexpected musical journey across the city.
Throughout the Festival
Gold-Bug: Dissected
Mr Rupert Grandison and company
Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June at The Spirit Level, Southbank Centre
Mr Rupert Grandison and Coney invite you to hear the adventures of the ingenious Hunters who were bitten by the Gold-Bug.
mscapes
HP Labs
Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June at the Royal Festival Hall
Mscapes overlay digital sight, sounds and interactions onto the physical world to create immersive and interactive experiences: a virtual canvas onto the real world.
Sleeveface
Christophe Gowans
Friday 27th to Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Sleeveface (verb): To obscure your face with a 12" record sleeve, so your body becomes a visual extension of it. Mirth ensues!
Friday 27th June
Hide and Speak
9:30am to 5:00pm, Friday 27th June at The Southbank Centre
A day of seminars, talks and discussion about the future of play. Presented in conjunction with the London Games Fringe and Crossover.
Werewolf Night
7:00pm to 10:00pm, Friday 27th June at Royal Festival Hall, the Southbank Centre
A classic of social gaming, featuring negotiation, lies, double-dealing, shifting alliances, and werewolf howls.
All Weekend
London-as-Tokyo
Momus
12:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th June outside near the Southbank Centre
In London-as-Tokyo, Momus and his Japanese girlfriend, dressed as tour guides, will transform London into Tokyo using only language and bullhorns.
Trap Street
Holly Gramazio
12:00pm to 8:00pm, Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Over the weekend, players will construct a collaborative but unpredictably misleading map of London.
Build a Boardgame
Gethan Dick
Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Use your experience of Hide and Seek to come up with an instruction to go on a square, then come back and play when we have enough to build a board.
Pick-up-and-play games
The Sandpit
12:00pm to 8:00pm, Saturday 28th to Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Grab a ruleset, some friends (or strangers), some paper or cards or whatever else the game demands, and settle down for a few rounds of the social game of your choice.
Saturday 28th June
Fun Fed Games (1)
The Fun Fed
12:00pm to 1:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
A bunch of games where you'll leap, whoop, shout and never 'get out'.
Checkpoint
Andy Field
1:00pm to 2:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
This is a game of smuggling. Play it cool. Act casual. Run. Hide. Just get to the other side.
Snap-Shot-City Throwdown: New York vs London
Snap-Shot-City
2:00pm to 7:00pm, Saturday 28th June all over London
Snap-Shot-City is a world wide photographic treasure hunt that will open your eyes to the Extraordinary. Everyday. Everywhere. Sign up at snap-shot-city.com.
Fun Fed Games (2)
The Fun Fed
3:00pm to 4:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
A bunch of games where you'll leap, whoop, shout and never 'get out'.
Hand to Hand
Kevan Davis
4:00pm to 5:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Draw a hand of five multi-powered cards, and hunt down the other players of this urban card game.
The Comfort of Strangers
Simon
5:00pm to 6:00pm, Saturday 28th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Listen carefully and create your team out of the anonymous crowd; find comfort in strangers. Every chance encounter could be your last, or an opportunity to live and survive.
MPT
Hide and Seek in association with Coney and body>data>space
6:07pm onwards, Saturday 28th June around the Southbank Centre
On 28 June London will flood with people awaiting the signal to freeze. Poised: ready to discover what happens next.
Hide and Seek: The Party
Lost and Found, Snap-Shot-City
8:00pm onwards, Saturday 28th June at a secret location
See all the great perspectives on London found by the players of Snap-Shot-City and rock out to some awesome party games from Lost and Found.
Sunday 29th June
Psycho Ladders
Away Games
10:00am onwards, Sunday 29th June at the Hayward Gallery
A brand new family game in The Hayward's Psycho Buildings exhibition, commissioned for the festival by The Hayward and Hide and Seek.
And I Saw...
Chris Thorpe
12:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
And I Saw... is a game of finding things and making a list of them with text messaging.
Cruel 2 B Kind
Jane McGonigal and Ian Bogost, run for Hide and Seek 2008 by Minkette
12:00pm onwards, Sunday 29th June around the Southbank Centre
A game of deadly assassins stalking the streets; killing with kindness. Can you tell another player from an innocent bystander?
Bees
Holly Gramazio
1:00pm to 2:00pm, Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre
Become a bee: communicate through movement while you buzz around the Southbank Centre looking for pollen. Kazoos provided.
Freemasons
Halal Kebab Hut
2:00pm to 3:00pm, Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre
Discover your hidden musical talents and also your inner despot by joining this kazoo-playing cult of Masters, Serfs, and Freemen.
The Lost Sport of Olympia
Jane McGonigal
3:00pm onwards, Sunday 29th June at Hayward overhang
Rediscover the Lost Sport of Olympia in a brand new experience from one of the leading lights of the alternative reality gaming movement.
Mudlarking with Francis Barking
Gary Campbell
4:00pm to 5:00pm, Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
The tide's out, the treasure has been revealed. Find what you can and get off the beach quick smart before some other scoundrel does you in over a lump of coal.
SpaceEffect
Rootatroupe
4:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 29th June around the Southbank Centre
1 place, 1 word, 1 encounter, a lasting effect. Space Effect is a nonsensical exchange between strangers.
The South Bank Stag Hunt
Fictional Media
5:00pm to 6:00pm, Sunday 29th June at Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall
Two teams of players chase a stag, desperately trying to tie balloons to its rangy antlers.