Folk Game TikToks

Conversation

Fascinated by the joyful, spontaneous games invented by TikTok users, Danny Hawk has been collecting and writing about folk games that are played and shared on the service over the course of the pandemic. In this talk, he presents some of his best finds and investigates what makes them special.

This event was streamed live on our Twitch channel, with questions from the chat.
March 25, 8:00 pm GMT

Danny Hawk is an independent game developer and teacher based in Brooklyn NY. He’s a co-founder of the Folk Game Game Jam, a graduate of NYU Game Center’s MFA program, and is currently working on his forthcoming game Bird Town.