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Don’t Get Your Hopes Up!
Game-Making Workshop, Videogame Playtest
Join us for a special playtest of “Don’t Get Your Hopes Up”, an upcoming videogame about the Amsterdam housing crisis. Stay for a workshop on making your own documentary videogames, and share your new creations over drinks and conversation. RSVPs recommended.
👉🏽Dm to RSVP your spot (5 euro with one drink included)
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Don’t Get Your Hopes Up, by Krish Raghav @beijingbrown
Don’t Get Your Hopes Up is an upcoming videogame about housing shortage and horror in architecture.
Based on desperate apartment searches undertaken in 2022 and 2024, and drawing from a half decade of conversations about Amsterdam’s “woningnood”, the game moves between fiction, documentary, and social commentary.
With disquiet and creeping unease, it dismantles the consoling fictions of abundance, and laments a feeling of home that’s always just beyond reach.
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Krish will also be leading a workshop on the eerie power of documentary videogames and how to make your own interactive non-fiction work. We’ll be exploring tools, theories, and weird little game engines
✨ expect to leave with your very first videogame.
👉🏽No technical skills are needed. Bring your laptops.
Stay for drinks and conversations after.