Presentation of the documentary "The gamer inside"

Jesus Fabre presenting "The Gamer Inside", a collaborative documentary project which is licensed under Creative Commons(CC BY-NC-ND). It was born with the goal of portraying the impact of video games on society.

What began in December 2010, when Jesús Fabre (Murcia, 1983) decided to document the collective memory of his childhood friends, has now pushed the boundaries of personal, becoming a global outreach project where the players are the core on which it develops. Behind it, there is a team looking forward to facing this challenge to tell a collective story. A story based on testimonials from worlds as diverse as business, academic, artistic, software engineering, event management,journalism, music, movies, television, education, among others ...

A collaborative project that has already more than 150 testimonies from a generation that saw the birth of a mean which, either as a form of expression and/or entertainment, has left a unique trace in its memory and influenced their lives.

Workshop: «Gaming to understand: the gender experience in video games»

María Rubio Méndez – ARSGAMES

The present workshop intends to offer an overview of the different ways in which video games can be experienced from a gender perspective. Through the analysis of several video games, we will reveal the different representations of women that appear in this medium and the plurality of interpretations that can be given of them depending of the different attitudes towards the fictional universe of video games.

In this workshop we propose a gaming session in which two different forms of practice are to be carried out while gaming: a practice of analysis of the symbolic universe of video games, and a practice of experimentation with gender identity.

At the end of the workshop a brief discussion will be held to draw conclusions, which will be included in a document that is to be published together with the Conference proceedings.

Madrid Game Jam 2012

A Game Jam is an intense and thrilling meeting between video game developers. Participants of the Game Jam gather in small teams and work together to develop a whole video game in a very limited period of time.

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is an unique event: ¡no less than a Game Jam that takes place simultaneously all around the world for 48 hours! Global Game Jam 2012 starts on Friday, January 27 at 5 pm and ends on Sunday, January 29 at 5 pm (depending on each country's local time).

All participants have same restrictions that will be anounced at the beginning of the encounter and each local time will have a different additional restriction in order to avoid participants to start before the official time.

For this edition there are 40 seats available.

More information about registration and conditions at: http://www.gamejam.es.

Los Martes Juego

Michael Santorum will be playing during the next gaming session on January 31st. Michael holds a degree in Communications from the University of País Vasco. In 2006 he earned his master's degree at UCM (Universidad de Complutense de Madrid) and wrote his Master's Research Project on videogames and narrative, also the topic of his dissertation, currently under way.
His career started in Pyro Studios with titles such as Commandos 2 and Commandos3. Afterwards, he joined Mercury Stream where he worked in Clive Barker's Jericho. He is currently a member of the team behind Castlevania: Lords of Shadows.

Start time of Los Martes Juego: 20h

Castlevania: Lords of Shadow takes placein an apocalyptic setting in which darkness reigns supreme and the fragile alliance between Earth and Heaven is being threatened by an evil, sinisterforce: the mysterious Lords of Shadows.

Café Moderno
Plaza de las
Comendadoras, 1
28015 Madrid

Café Moderno

Complementary Activity: Los Martes Juego.