A Soft Landing

    ‘Deviation Game’ by Tomo Kihara & Playfool Now that the dust has settled on the ninth year of Now Play This Festival, it’s time to look back and reflect a bit on how it all went. For good descriptions of the festival experience, see some of the pre

    by Sebastian Quack NPT2023

    Now Play This 2023 – OPEN CALL

    Now Play This will be returning to Somerset House in Spring of 2023 as part of London Games Festival. We’re once again opening up a call for playful makers and creators to tell us about their work. Daisy Oracle of Love – U.S. Patent Application by Pedr

    by Sebastian Quack NPT2023, News

    Create Experimental Games & Playful Art at the Now Play This Design Camp!

    We’re inviting makers, artists, researchers, organisers and activists from all backgrounds to come together for a week of co-creation, reflection and play at Somerset House. In the lead-up to this year’s Now Play This festival, we are hosting a design

    by Sebastian Quack NPT2022, News

    Now Play This 2022 – OPEN CALL

      An audio version of this open call can be found here Now Play This will be returning to Somerset House in Spring of 2022 as part of London Games Festival. For this new edition we’re once again opening up a call for playful makers and creators to

    by Sebastian Quack NPT2022, Open Call

    Venturing back into physical space

    After another year of online activities, we were thrilled to present some of the highlights from our 2021 programme in a physical space full of real people at Next Level Festival. Next Level takes place in Essen, Germany, at Zollverein, a former coal m

    by Sebastian Quack NPT2021, News

    Now Play This 2021 – OPEN CALL

    Now Play This will be returning to Somerset House in Spring of 2021 as part of London Games Festival. For this new edition we’re once again opening up a call for playful makers and creators to tell us about their work. The submission deadline for the o

    by Sebastian Quack NPT2021