Festival Jogatório is a games festival focused on celebrating the creative minds of developers and their projects, whether they are digital, board games, tabletop RPGs or even artists who are inspired by games. The public has the opportunity to test and/or purchase these products in an environment conducive to dialog with their creators.
Fantastic narratives, indecipherable mysteries, puzzles where each piece leads to a surprising path, lead the player on multiple adventures, ranging from the funniest to the most horrifying and even amorous.
Aliens, pirates, zombies and horrifying monsters are all present. Fiction and reality are often blended to create imaginary places that transport the player far away or provoke critical reflections on reality and the present moment.
In digital games, past, "obsolete" technologies coexist with new technologies, where past, present and future meet in many stories. The public is invited to take part in the games and immerse themselves in each proposal, either individually or collectively.
THE FIRST EDITION
The first edition of the Play Festival took place on July 8 and 9, 2023, organized by SESC 24 de Maio in partnership with Firma Gamedev. Part of the FestA! - Festival de Aprender 2023, a festival consisting of courses, workshops, experiences and artistic demonstrations in the visual arts and technology, whose theme was Games, the event featured:
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35 digital games, including titles such as Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles, Fish Person Shooter, Mark of the Deep and Atuel, the Argentine game that won the BIG Festival 2023 in the Big Impact: Social Matters category.
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2 digital games made for old platforms, with Alien Holocaust 2 - Earth Invasion, a game for the Atari 2600 and Bruxólico (Anacroflipper), a game for the ZX Spectrum that also comes with an illustrated book.
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The Museum of Innovation and Human Technology (MITH), a small exhibition that values the production of national videogames limited by the market reserve law (Lei Federal No. 7.232/84) and presents the re-engineering and models created in Brazil during this period (1984~1992) to new generations. Coopermiti, which is responsible for the exhibition, has also set up a collection point for electronic waste.
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4 Brazilian writers of independent TTRPGs, with the highlights being Brave Zenith and here, there, be monsters!
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2 board games, Alieninjas and Multimórbido.
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Our little Artist's Alley, with 5 guest artists selling their game-inspired productions.
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2 fighting games projected on the balcony of SESC's living area, Diesel Legacy and Them's Fightin Herds.
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The Stealth Lounge, where any independent developers, with the organization's prior consent, showed their productions in a relaxing environment.
The full list of games in the 2023 edition of the Play Festival can be found here.
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