Now Play This

The three-day event returns, coinciding with the city-wide games initiative, London Games Festival. Filled with a host of hands-on opportunities for visitors to get involved.

Showcasing the wider possibilities of games, the peculiar, the beautiful, the deeply experimental. It's a place for games that get us playing in new and wonderful ways - whether that's in groups, on our own, outside, inside, on or underneath tables. Games that send us running across courtyards, games situated on nearby screens, games that take place entirely in our heads.

New for this year is a Cabinet of Impossible Games, where people can discover games that were never played, providing a new way to think about the process of designing and producing for play. Examples will include plans for playgrounds that could not be built, incomplete video games, and designs for board games that were never produced.

"A diverse and fascinating selection of experimental games" (The Guardian)

Also new for 2017 is The Ten Second Room, filled with games exploring the way duration impacts play, that will challenge players to complete a task at top speed, such as trying a hand at being a virtual make-up artist, or sketching a digital masterpiece. Three brand new games, specially commissioned for Now Play This from international artists, Patrick Smith (Vector Park), Lee Shang Lun, and Yara El-Shabini will also make their debut.