Tale of Tales: the Art of Indie Games

ABOUT THIS EVENT

The Roma Game Dev community, in collaboration with the Ex Machina collective, is pleased to announce a unique and unmissable event for all independent video game enthusiasts. On March 26, at 6:30 pm, at the cultural space Zalib - Circolo Arci (via della Penitenza 35, Trastevere), we will have the pleasure of hosting Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, founders of the legendary development studio Tale of Tales, pioneers and symbols of creative independence in the international video game industry.

With the mediation of Federico Simonetti (philosopher, expert in video game culture and founder of Ex Machina) and through an open dialogue with the public, we will explore their extraordinary career, their approach to the creation of video games as an art form and their commitment to an artistic production free from the dictates of the market.

The event is free with Arci card.

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Tale of Tales

Founded in 2003 by Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn, both artists by training, it was among the very first studios to have created independent video games on an international level, intended as works that redefine the boundaries between art and video games. Titles such as The Endless Forest, The Path, Fatale and Sunset have offered deep and poetic interactive experiences, exploring complex themes such as memory, desire and identity. Despite exiting the commercial market in 2015, Tale of Tales continues to inspire the independent industry around the world, demonstrating that artistic creation can be a form of cultural resistance.
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Roma Game Dev

Roma Game Dev is an independent community born about 15 years ago in Rome with the aim of bringing together game devs, enthusiasts and professionals in the sector. It organizes monthly live meetings, hosts the Roman headquarters of the Global Game Jam, an annual international event and organizes the Roma Game Jam, also an annual event. Roma Game Dev is particularly attentive to promoting innovation, experimentation and collaboration among its members, conveying values ​​of inclusiveness, mutual support and creative freedom.
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Ex Machina

Ex Machina is a collective based in Rome, but with members in various cities in Italy, born in 2023 with the aim of studying and deepening the relationship between video games and philosophy. Ex Machina intends to study reality, society and its conflicts using video games as a privileged point of view, as a medium that brings into play the user's agency and a relationship between human beings and machines that does not pass through the efficient cause, but through the final cause. The core of the collective's activities is the organization of an annual seminar that takes place in Rome from February to June and involves designers, activists, philosophers and various personalities from the gaming world.
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