Games Amsterdam

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Games Amsterdam

Animation has the power to transport you to other worlds and realities. But by adding the element of interactivity, games allow you to actually live in those worlds and to experience things you could never experiences as your fleshy human self! This year at Kaboom, you get the chance to battle evil itself and to solve mysteries as a tiny fox, to make friends throughout an insect world while spinning webs and riding a skateboard, to escape a possessed arcade as a unicorn and to explore an exotic underwater world... IN SPACE!!!! These games will entertain, frighten, amuse and inspire you from the comfort of our gaming areas in Utrecht and Amsterdam.

Entrance is free of charge. Opening hours are:

  • Friday 31st March: 10:00 - 22:00
  • Saturday 1st April: 10:00 - 22:00
  • Sunday 2nd April: 10:00 - 22:00

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2023

Showing in this program

Al Crepuscolo

Al Crepuscolo

  • Jacopo Armani
  • Luxembourg, 2022
  • 20 min.

Al Crepuscolo is a relaxing experience in Virtual Reality, featuring beautiful, stylized art and a heart-warming soundtrack for an emotional journey through pristine landscapes.

KEY FEATURES
- Travel through a magical corner of wildlife to locate the venue of a one-of-a-kind musical festival
- Meet the Spirits of the Forest and let them guide you through your journey
- Listen to the evocative soundtrack composed by film composer André Dziezuk
- Explore a hand-crafted world at your own pace paddling in your kayak

Al Crepuscolo is designed to calm your busy mind and allow you to take the time to look, listen and feel the miracle of Nature from your own living room. By inviting you to paddle around in a kayak and explore this enchanted world, Al Crepuscolo helps you ease daily stress and clear your mind through movements.

Without competitive objectives, you can sit back and enjoy the surroundings, the visuals and the sounds.

Déjà-vu

Déjà-vu

  • Dennis Stein-Schomburg
  • Germany, 2021
  • 15 min.

This Game is a storygame in VR. You are placed in a city named "Evia". Everything you see is out of a "giant perspective".
You can explore the city by walking or using the controller and pull yourself through. You are also able to slide the map up and down and adjust the volume.
In the city itself there is lot for you to discover. Besides there are 12 hidden Scenes (+1) and one that can be explored and will tell you one explicit story.
Attached above the controller there is a "Timeline" that shows you what scene in the chronological line you have already found.
As soon as you are in front of one particular scene the controller should "vibrate" and fill out the timeline.
When you have found all 12 Scenes a new one will reveal. Find it again and the story of Evia is solved! Or has it just began?

Elephant’s Graveyard

Elephant’s Graveyard

  • The Netherlands, 2022
  • 30 min.

Elephant's Graveyard is a short but sweet, arcade horror game. Where you indirectly control a pink elephant through a graveyard. Try not to break anything or it will cause unwanted attention of the undead inhabitants and worst of all the scary engineer...

Halfway West

Halfway West

  • The Netherlands, 2022
  • 45 min.

Halfway West is a first-person 3D narrative driven game that takes place on a mysterious never-ending train in-between life and death. On your quest to find the missing engine-driver you discover that the passengers are stuck in their own carriages unaware of the fact that they are on a train. By talking with them you are able to help them come to terms with the reason behind their eternal stay.

Harold Halibut

Harold Halibut

  • Onat Hekimoglu
  • Germany, 2023
  • 90 min.

It’s been 250 years since your home - an ark-like spaceship - fled an Earth on the verge of cold war to find a habitable planet on which to preserve the human race.

You are Harold, a young lab assistant for the ship’s lead scientist, Jeanne Mareaux. While most of the ship’s inhabitants have reconciled themselves to a life lived aboard the sunken ship, Mareaux still works tirelessly to find a way for the ship to leave the planet and find a new, dryer home.
But of course the weird, wonderful and diverse people of the Fedora keep Harold busy too. Until one fateful encounter plunges Harold into a new world that nobody could have guessed existed - and one that may hold the key to Mareaux’s re-launch plans.

Join Harold as he explores a vibrant retro-future world, talks (with full voice acting) to its inhabitants, and occasionally goes hands on by sticking screwdrivers in things, operating complex machinery, and more in his quest to find the true meaning of ‘home’.

Oakenfold

Oakenfold

  • The Netherlands, 2022
  • 15 min.

Oakenfold is a clever time-reversible strategy game. Outsmart the Biocides wrecking our planet in this roguelike adventure. Manipulate them, shove them, drown them, crush them, have them attack each other... No matter how you do it, keep your precious cargo safe at all times! It's your last chance to escape our inhospitable planet.

Pony Island

Pony Island

  • Canada, 2016
  • 15 min.

Pony Island is a suspense puzzle game in disguise. You are in limbo, trapped in a malevolent and malfunctioning arcade machine devised by the devil himself. It is not a game about ponies.

The Forest Quartet

The Forest Quartet

  • Denmark, 2022
  • 20 min.

The Forest Quartet is a puzzle adventure about a gone, but not forgotten, lead singer. Play her spirit and travel through 3 acts unique to the members of her band for a final farewell concert. Face their emotions, solve puzzles and fight the corruption plaguing their souls.

TUNIC

TUNIC

  • United States, 2022
  • 30 min.

Explore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometric action game about a small fox on a big adventure.

Unicorn Wars (Game)

Unicorn Wars (Game)

  • Spain, 2022
  • 15 min.

The survival of the bear world is in danger. Unicorn Wars tells the story of the ancient war between the bear army and the unicorns. The brothers Azulín and Gordi, together with an inexperienced group of recruits, will be sent on a dangerous mission to save the Magical Forest… will the bears be ready for it?
Unicorn Wars is an addictive "shoot'em up" with a different artistic design, classic 2d animations and a semi-procedural phase system that will make each game a unique experience. You will have to face a multitude of jumps, precipices and platforms that you have to overcome until you complete your difficult journey.

Untitled Goose Game

Untitled Goose Game

  • Australia, 2019
  • 15 min.

It's a lovely day in the village, and you are a horrible goose.
Untitled Goose Game is a slapstick-stealth-sandbox, where you are a goose let loose on an unsuspecting village. Make your way around town, from peoples' back gardens to the high street shops to the village green, setting up pranks, stealing hats, honking a lot, and generally ruining everyone’s day.

Webbed

Webbed

  • Australia, 2021
  • 15 min.

Webbed is the story of a happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big mean bowerbird. Swing through the trees, spin sticky webs, and make friends with bugs! Be the adorable spider you’ve always wanted to be.