LUDIC LUDIC SOIRÉE: Toys and the City - Urban Games Supported by Playful Objects
With Tamer Aslan and Philipp Ehmann
An event of the Department of Experimental Game Cultures
Tamer Aslan and Philipp Ehmann explore public spaces and urban areas through playful means. For the last ten years,
their company City Games has created physical playful objects and games that help facilitate this exploration for others.
In this talk they will examine their design decisions, including physicality, portability and magic - from physical urban
gaming boards to scratch card treasure hunts to adventure games for regional development.
About the speakers:
Tamer Aslan is a creative
technologist and, as managing director of City Games, primarily responsible for the company’s management. Philipp
J. Ehmann is chiefly in charge of game and narrative design at the studio and is one of its co-founders. Together,
they make up two thirds of the company’s executive board.
City Games Vienna is an urban and serious games
studio and publisher, situated in the heart of Vienna. We make games that help our players explore the city or specific topics
of interest. We’re best known for our Monster Hunt games - an urban scratch-card-treasure-hunt, in which players find monsters
in their own (or a foreign) city and COW CHAT CRIME - a crime thriller on WhatsApp, as a serious game about cows. We’ve also
made games for Game City, BOKU, UN, BMWFW and others.
Tamer Aslan is a creative technologist, as well as the head
of City Games and mostly responsible for running the company.
Philipp J. Ehmann is mostly responsible for game
and narrative design at the studio, and also one of the co-founders.
Together they form 2/3rds of the board of
City Games.
