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@untitledgamesevent
A space for experimental games and playable arts. A monthly Amsterdam-based 'book club' for games and conversation on play. https://buttondown.com/untitledgamesevent NEXT EDITION: Sun 22 Mar
If you came to our opening last weekend: thank you!! It was wonderful and energizing to see so many familiar and new faces. We are excited to discover the potential of our new space together 💗🙌
(Opening pictures by Jip Huisintveld)
If you're in Amsterdam on the 22nd of March, this event looks amazing + you can be one of the first people to playtest "Pigeon: A Love Story" there!
I’ll do a talk at the next Untitled Games event Amsterdam! The event is free, join us on March 22!
Thanks to Greg from Barking Dogs who gave me permission to talk about his amazing games 🙏
The poster for Untitled Games Event Amsterdam, edition #3. Sunday 22 Mar, 5pm onwards. Tussen de Bogen 46, Amsterdam
Please help us spread the word! We can’t wait to see you all and experience these works together ❤️
A line drawing of a joker breaking through a wall
5️⃣, 6️⃣-7️⃣ Designer Ramon Huiskamp @roofkat.bsky.social
will present a collection of three evocative solo card games with themes of escape and revolution.
3️⃣+ 4️⃣ @zogzhu.bsky.social presents a special talk on the games Get Yoked and Please Don’t Feed Me, asking: “What does the perfect body look like?”
A pigeon soars above a cityscape bathed in blue-green light.
2️⃣ Pigeon: A Love Story by Wristwork @wristwork.bsky.social
A special "Amsterdam" demo build! Be a pigeon and soar above the city in this needle-in-a-haystack sim that's about nothing and everything.
A stylized cutout image of a lion statue, being approached by the bright yellow cutout of a hand. Text on screen reads "Oh Hello! What have you been breathing in?"
1️⃣Something to Reach For by Outer Plays
A short work of gestural poetry about losing something important to you. Creators @pastelsavage.bsky.social and @roughat.bsky.social will be present for a micro-talk!
The poster for Untitled Games Event Amsterdam. A pixel art border contains the details: 22 March 2026, 5-7pm. Tussen de Bogen 46, 1013JB Amsterdam
The seven(!) works in [untitled games event] edition #3 are all "one half of a secret handshake" - asserting possibilities of solidarity and escape in a world (seemingly) built from the materials of solitude.
Join us on Sunday 22 March 2026 for an evening of games and talks about hopeful optimism in the service of bottomless longing.
[untitled games event] #3
"secret handshake"
Sunday 22 March 2026
1700-1900
Tussen de Bogen 46
Amsterdam 1013JB
buttondown.com/untitledgame...
Recommendations, notes, and photos from @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social edition #2!
So much fun, can't wait to see everyone again on Sunday March 22 for #3: buttondown.com/untitledgame...
Samuel Baidoo, creator of Plum Road Tea Dream, speaks to a seated audience
The team behind dutch card game LINKS speaks to a seated audience. One person is taking a photo.
A seated man with headphones on plays the game BENCHES on a monitor. A few others look on.
Thijs van Loenhout, creator of BENCHES, speaks to a decently sized crowd arrayed around a TV screen
That was so much fun. Thank you, sincerely, to everyone for being there, being part of it, participating, and conjuring [untitled games event] #2. So much went wonderfully.
Can't wait to see you all again on Sunday March 22.
Recs and notes soon in our newsletter: buttondown.com/untitledgame...
See you at 1700! Bring beverages and friends!
Join us on Sunday 15 February 2026 in Amsterdam for an evening of games and talks that ask how we might live in this aching world with more attunement, care, and courage.
[untitled games event] #2
Sunday 15 February 2026
1700-1900
Tussen de Bogen 46
Amsterdam 1013JB
buttondown.com/untitledgame...
A mosaic of screenshots, from card game LINKS and How a Body Sounds, to Benches and Plum Road Tea Dream
Join us in Amsterdam for @untitledgamesevent.bsky.social #2 this Sunday 15 Feb! Feat. talks from the creators of Plum Road Tea Dream, Benches and card game LINKS. Games and conversations, free and BYOB. Bring all your friends. ❤️
All the details here: buttondown.com/untitledgame...
![A poster for Untitled Games Event in Amsterdam, with the details:
[untitled games event] #2: tender interval
Sunday 15 February 2026
1700-1900
Tussen de Bogen 46
Amsterdam 1013JB
Games and conversations from 1700 onwards.
Talks at 1745.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4dl5nbndxscdysociy6j2if7/bafkreiabj74u7tcqiwa4zmkc74flxrwovseab2m57i5afroqxi3ceakwxi)
A poster for Untitled Games Event in Amsterdam, with the details: [untitled games event] #2: tender interval Sunday 15 February 2026 1700-1900 Tussen de Bogen 46 Amsterdam 1013JB Games and conversations from 1700 onwards. Talks at 1745.
Please help us spread the word. We can’t wait to see you all and experience these works together. ❤️
4. How a Body Sounds by Yami Kurae
An eerie exploration game for the Gameboy Color that attunes us to the haunted psychogeography of cities.
yamikurae.itch.io/how-a-body-s...
3. Plum Road Tea Dream by Samuel Baidoo, @pepijnwillekens.bsky.social and others
A radiant queer autobiography of connection, introspection and healing.
store.steampowered.com/app/3206340/...
2. LINKS by Team DPC
A narrative-driven card game exploring how social, environmental, economic, and cultural forces collide in the age of the climate crisis.
nojokeeditions.itch.io/links
1. Benches by Thijs van Loenhout
A work of lyrical grace about our daily urban encounters, and an "open letter" to the municipality of Rotterdam. (h/t @warpdoor.com)
thijsoid.itch.io/benches?ref=...
The four works in [untitled games event] edition #2 invite us to look beyond the borders of the individual to find new orientations, both to ourselves and to the spaces that surround us:
Join us on Sunday 15 February 2026 in Amsterdam for an evening of games and talks that ask how we might live in this aching world with more attunement, care, and courage.
[untitled games event] #2
Sunday 15 February 2026
1700-1900
Tussen de Bogen 46
Amsterdam 1013JB
buttondown.com/untitledgame...
A group of people cluster around an off-screen TV, listening to a presentation at an experiment games event in Amsterdam
A group of people cluster around an TV, listening to a presentation at an experiment games event in Amsterdam. The screen shows a low-poly beach landscape with a purple sky.
A group of people cluster around a TV, listening to a presentation at an experiment games event in Amsterdam
People at an experiment games event in Amsterdam, playing titles, chatting, picking up snacks and seemingly having a good time.
Photos from our first trial run last week. Great turnout, so many highlights, and some off-the-charts energy. Felt like a good one. If you were there, truly hope you had a ball and would love to see you next month. (📸: @yancong.bsky.social)
Newsletter: buttondown.com/untitledgame...
Hey! Welcome to [untitled games event], a space for experimental games in Amsterdam. We organize a monthly 'book club' for games and conversation around play. Next meetup: Sunday Feb 15!
Join our newsletter for all the details (also help us spread the word!): buttondown.com/untitledgame...
