A Maze.

After my pitch at Quo Vadis I headed over to A MAZE., happy to have the business part of the journey behind me.

The festival welcomed me with colorful lights and lots of happy game people. Every few steps I met another familiar face. It was great to see all my friends again!

The next day (Thursday) I attended the Indie Arena Meetup. I really enjoy this kind of community, were every member can openly say their opinion and suggest things to improve. We need more Swiss people in this community!

On Friday I got up “early” to attend the talks taking place at “Neue Heimat”.

In the evening the ZHdK people showed what they had been working on the past two days: Multiplayer Games that could be played with a bar scanner. It was quite a show xD

The same evening I watched a “Interactive theater performance” by the group Extraleben. It was really great, I can only recommend it

On Saturday I wanted to play ALL the games. Unfortunately, half of them were gone already

Oh look, it’s David Stark showning his game Airships

After playing comes resting! ZHdK peps chilling together.

We had the idea to maybe rent one of the festival sheds together next year. A nice space for Swiss Games!

Also: Some people started game jamming together

After saying goodbye to all the awesome people at A MAZE. I walked trough Berlin for a bit.

On Sunday morning the ZHdK people met up to journey back to Zurich together, by BUS! I was afraid to get sick (14h trip ahoi!), but it was quite alright. We even stopped in Munich and drank a hell load of beer in a beer garden xD

A MAZE. and Quo Vadis were both great! I will be back next year