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Saturday, May 17
 

TBA

Singing Rainbow
Saturday May 17, 2025 TBA
Kuppelhalle [Silent Green]
A collaborative multiplayer dome game created by A MAZE. and Katpatat Collective.

This work is inspired by crowd games. This audio-reactive playful art piece brings people together to sing along different notes. The more you sync with the sound pattern the more bright and dense you paint colors to the dome and move the clouds above away. The game has 7 levels as a rainbow has colors. The rainbow symbolizes ethnic and racial diversity, to express LGBTQ identity and pride, also it is a symbol for happiness, feelings of togetherness, hope, and good fortune.

This installation will run at the Kuppelhalle throughout the festival. Between sessions, A MAZE. visitors will be able to take the microphone and experiment with the artwork projected on the dome ceiling of the Kuppelhalle. Gather people around (or fly solo), lie down and hum, sing or do poetic readings and enjoy the mesmerising visions.
Saturday May 17, 2025 TBA
Kuppelhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Interactive

12:00 CEST

AMAZING X-MARKET
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 19:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]
The AMAZING X-MARKET is a place where people sell unqiue self-produced geeky stuff from 3d-printed characters, plushies, home-brewed experimental video games, usb sticks with coolest content on it, selfmade synths,  to services (like pixelart, lofi mocap, 3D scanning), boardgames, alternative controllers, digital toys, robots, OSTs, all kinds of wearables, postcards from VR, fanzines, illustrations, paintings, books, clothes and also merch.  

Want to take part? You have untill may 7th.
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Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 19:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Maker Market

12:00 CEST

Trigg ‐ Build an Open‐Hardware Portable Handheld Games Console
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]

Trigg is an open-source, DIY portable games console that you can code for directly in the browser. It's our hand-solder-friendly version of the Hack Club Sprig, designed to introduce coding for hardware in our maker space and coding school (fablab|nk and 42 Berlin).

In our workshop, you’ll solder and assemble your own Trigg from a kit of parts, test it, then upload the code for your first game. Kits cost 30 Euros, and the workshop is free.

Each kit includes a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, custom circuit board, display, speaker, and all necessary components (AAA batteries not included). For more information and a build guide, visit: https://www.github.com/fablabnk/TriggWorkshop


Artists
avatar for Graham Booth

Graham Booth

42 Berlin, Workish.berlin
Graham Booth is a tech educator working at the intersection of software engineering education and hands-on hardware experimentation. He manages FabLabNK, a collaborative makerspace within the tuition-free coding school 42 Berlin, which aims to foster a community where code, hardware... Read More →
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Maker Market, Workshop

12:00 CEST

Public Play Day
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 21:00 CEST
Silent Green (Betonhalle, Garden, Kuppelhalle, Ateliers, Transmediale Studio)
The Public Play Day is for the whole family to explore the amazing alternative and independent games and playful media world of A MAZE. / Berlin.

Kids until 12 getting in for free... we do have family passes.

We show the best of arthouse gaming including alternative controller games, vr experiences, indie games. We also have some community talks and game design workshops for everyone interested in game creation.This year also have a local multiplayer tournament, an analog market .

For more info please check on our website: www.amaze-berlin.de
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 21:00 CEST
Silent Green (Betonhalle, Garden, Kuppelhalle, Ateliers, Transmediale Studio) Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Amazing Day

12:00 CEST

A MAZE. / Exhibition
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 21:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
The main exhibition features the nominees and the honorable mentions of the 14th International A MAZE. Award including some extra gems which we showcase out of competition.

​Nominees and Honorable Mentions​​​
Extra Gems: (tba)

Artistic and experimental games are often off the mainstream and allow for different experiences with forward-thinking and playful views, often not for entertainment only. Technology is used as playground for artistic expression and innovative interaction with audiences interested in critical reflection and meaningful interaction. Discover different experiences, local multiplayer games, interactive installations and many more of this versatile art-form.

For Festival Pass holders, One Night at A MAZE. Ticket holders, Public Play Day Ticket holders.
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 21:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Exhibition

12:00 CEST

Sokpop x A MAZE.
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 21:00 CEST
Transmediale Studio [Silent Green]
Ten years and over a hundred games: Time for a retrospective!

Sokpop is the collective of game designers Aran, Ruben, Tijmen, and Tom from the Netherlands. They started out together, making one game per month for their online subscribers. Financing Sokpop with this monthly support of loyal fans they chose not to worry about the competitive games market, but instead focus on making fun, inventive, and charmingly weird little worlds - games that surprise the players and sometimes leave them wondering.
Saturday May 17, 2025 12:00 - 21:00 CEST
Transmediale Studio [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Exhibition

13:00 CEST

It All Flows Somewhere - A game-making workshop
Saturday May 17, 2025 13:00 - 15:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]
A map-making game for everyone! Together we'll make a map of a new community, and chart the folk histories of the area. Get hands-on with collage and mark-making to create sprawling maps, which will then get transformed into a digital game that you can explore during the workshop and at home!

AUDIENCE: Anyone with an interest in making games with traditional/physical materials. Also people who enjoy playing tabletop games. It's a very crafty session!
REQUIREMENTS: Anyone with an interest in making games with traditional/physical materials. Also people who enjoy playing tabletop games. It's a very crafty session!
BRING: Just yourself and a willingness to cut and stick

For this workshop online registration is not required to attend. You can just come by and drop in!
Artists
avatar for Nick Murray

Nick Murray

Nick Murray is a game-maker and artist making interactive sonic and narrative work focusing on memory and digital cultures. This often takes the form of games, interactive poetry and performance... Read More →
Saturday May 17, 2025 13:00 - 15:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Workshop

14:00 CEST

Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 16:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
Frame of Mind - A game of thoughts is a brief and cozy narrative game that lets you explore a character through thoughts and momentos you find in stages of their life. Its an introspective game, meant to share some experiences a peer-group of neurodivergent queers, including the developer, had growing up.
Experience through the eyes of a character as they return to their childhood home, after moving out. What mementos will they find? What thoughts will they go through? Can they be happy? Maybe not. You decide which thoughts to keep or discard. Help them find a better Frame of Mind.
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 16:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

14:00 CEST

Laika
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 16:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
The game "Laika" is a visual novel that tells an imaginary story about the launch of a rocket and the preceding events at the Kosmodrom Baikonur. There the dog Laika is looking for someone. Suddenly she finds herself in a human body and then in that of a firefly. In each form she has a new mission. Will she find what she is looking for? And what happened to cause her interdimensional journey?
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 16:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

14:00 CEST

Merana and the Cubewalker
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 16:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
A 3D Puzzle-Platformer with a Rubik's Cube world.
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 16:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

14:00 CEST

Nerdiger Look mit Polygon-Masken und temporären Tattoos / Nerdy Looks With Polygon Masks and Temporary Tattoos
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green]
- Create your own low poly papercraft mask and make the festival an even more colorful place
- Wanna have amazing tattoos? Bring your own designs to life with printable temporary tattoo paper

Workshop Language: German and English
Audience: 8+ (teenagers and adults are welcome as well), single persons, small groups or families
Requirements: no prior knowledge needed, for beginners

The workshop is an open drop in-format. For the working station you need up to 1h or more if you like. You can come to the workshop in the timeframe from 14-18h. 


German version:
Nerdiger Look mit Polygon-Masken und temporären Tattoos

- Gestalte deine eigene Low-Poly-Papiermaske und mache das Festival noch bunter.
- Willst du amazing Tattoos haben? Erwecke deine eigenen Designs mit bedruckbarem Papier für temporäre Tattoos zum Leben.

Workshopsprache: Deutsch und Englisch, je nach Bedarf
Zielgruppe: 8+ (Jugendliche, aber auch Erwachsene sind willkommen), Einzelpersonen, Kleingruppen oder Familien
Anforderungen: Kein Vorwissen benötigt

Der Workshop ist ein offenes Drop-in-Format. Für die Arbeitsstation brauchst du bis zu 1 Stunde oder mehr, wenn du möchtest. Du kannst in der Zeit von 14 bis 18 Uhr zum Workshop kommen.
Artists
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Nils Sommer

Nils Sommer (@nilssommer) is a Media Educator and Game Writer, specialized in TTRPGs and Narrative Design.
SA

Svenja Anhut

Svenja Anhut is a game designer, artist and educator who works freelance. She mainly focuses on creating concepts and content for public gaming experiences, jams and workshops. But I also host and organize such events. She is also part of the AMAZE Orgateam.:::::Svenja Anhut (@svenjaanhut... Read More →
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle Stage [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Workshop

14:00 CEST

Open Screens
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
Open Screens are back!
Following the success of previous years, our goal remains the same: to provide a convenient platform for developers to showcase their creations to the press and their peers. These exhibits will be on display at the physical A MAZE. venue.

See for the full line up: https://2025.amaze-berlin.de/openscreens/
Individual Times exhibited projects Open Screens
Saturday May 17, 2025 14:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Exhibition

16:00 CEST

Lost Mirror
Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
Little Mirror ended up in the Mirrorland together with Plastic Bag. It found itself there already broken with all of the pieces fallen out of the frame. Mirror shards are flying so high that it is impossible to catch them. And Plastic Bag… Feels as if he’s been here forever, and knows a lot more about the Mirrorland than his mouth could ever tell even if plastic bags had mouths. Little Mirror doesn’t know what’s behind the door with the sign “THERE”. Actually, it knew back then. But it doesn’t remember, and that’s why Little Mirror needs to go there. To collect its fragments, Little Mirror has to relive its memories: the good, the sad, the scary, and the funny ones. Based on the musical “Lost Mirror” by SBP4, the game is currently in development and is expected to be released in 2026.
Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

16:00 CEST

Squishy World
Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
Shooter-Platformer hybrid prototype with cute candyworld aesthetics & a plot exploring the difficulties of belonging. The demo is currently behind what's complete but playable: https://youtu.be/pkvEEd7zPjE?si=cyUpDjOge4kajotw&t=1

Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

16:00 CEST

Wee Boats
Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
A wholesome, multiplayer boating world to discover secrets and surprises in the ocean. Chat and honk to your heart's content! Wee Boats is an act of self care!
Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

16:00 CEST

《Meme Survival Simulation》
Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
meme生存模拟游戏（Meme Survival Simulation）
"STAND ALONE COMPLEX" (isolated individual set) appeared in the series "Ghost in the Shell SAC" which was distilled into the title to express the core of the series, this potential social behavior was reduced to "meme" by Dawkins---- survival behavior and material carrier, that is, just as animal behavior is mostly determined by “genes”, most of human behavior is also determined by “memes” stored in the brain, which are transmitted by continuous self-replication. Inspired by this, I developed a survival simulator game with "memes" as the protagonist. Players need to constantly copy themselves and switch hosts, and choose according to the environment to create more memes in the game to reach groups. consensus.
Meme Survival Simulation (Meme Survival Simulation) attempts to simulate the social interaction form of meme and create a similar virtual gathering, invisibly pushing the group to reach some kind of consensus, the simulator reveals this by using the follow meme propagation mechanism visualization, in this In the game scene of the reversed perspective, the audience is also in the field created by the subtle memetic game.
Saturday May 17, 2025 16:00 - 18:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

18:00 CEST

Placeground
Saturday May 17, 2025 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
Placeground, a relaxing home builder where the way you design a space shapes the stories that unfold inside it. Build freely, decorate to your heart’s content, and watch as characters interact with your created space - playing out small moments, surprises, and stories right before your eyes.
No goals, no pressure, and no wrong choices to make. Just you, a blank room, and the joy of watching life play out in the rooms you design. Every object you place nudges the direction of your characters' stories, making every room feel like a tiny stage for everyday life.

Create, decorate, relax, and let stories unfold.
Saturday May 17, 2025 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

18:00 CEST

Shop Crush
Saturday May 17, 2025 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
Manage your Thrift Shop. Sell a hodgepodge of merchandise to picky customers. Set the prices, bargain with clients, and turn down suspicious offers. Order popular stock, fight off shoplifters, and manage your reputation — gain or lose it based on your choices!
Saturday May 17, 2025 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

18:00 CEST

Something To Reach For
Saturday May 17, 2025 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green]
Have you ever found yourself elbow-deep in a sewer? Or followed ants disappearing into a hole? But most importantly, have you ever lost something that was important to you? Then you and Leah have something in common.
Saturday May 17, 2025 18:00 - 20:00 CEST
Betonhalle [Silent Green] Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Open Screens

19:00 CEST

Sons and True Sons by Total Refusal
Saturday May 17, 2025 19:00 - 20:00 CEST
HAU - Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2)
TICKETS
In "Sons and True Sons," the Viennese media guerrilla group Total Refusal examines the connections between toxic masculinity, gaming culture, and the 2021 storming of the US Capitol. In a live gaming lecture, they question the parallels between the video game "Tom Clancy's: The Division 2" (2016) and real-life extremist movements – and highlight the dangers of hypermasculine self-empowerment. A brief overview of the game: Set in a 2010s Washington, D.C., rocked by a smallpox pandemic and chaos, players must liberate the city from rival factions. The similarities between the game's depiction of the civilian militia (True Sons) seizing control of the digital seat of Congress and the emergence of paramilitary, crypto-fascist groups in 2021 are uncanny. Inspired by this, the live gaming lecture overwrites the game's version of the Capitol storming. Total Refusal explores the crisis of liberal democracy and hypermasculinist self-empowerment within and outside of gaming spaces.

With the live gaming lecture “Sons and True Sons,” HAU is partnering for the second time with the A MAZE. / Berlin Festival. 

Get your extra ticket via our ticket shop -> special event tickets.

Artists
avatar for Total Refusal
Saturday May 17, 2025 19:00 - 20:00 CEST
HAU - Hebbel am Ufer (HAU2) Hallesches Ufer 34, 10963 Berlin, Germany
  Performance

22:00 CEST

Panke Exhibition (22:00 - 02:00)
Saturday May 17, 2025 22:00 - Sunday May 18, 2025 02:00 CEST
Panke Culture
A MAZE. presents a self curated exhibition by Distraction Collective from Paris at Panke Gallery. The exhibition will be open only during the opening hour of Panke. Wednesday - Saturday from 10pm - 2am.

Also we are showing a new games by Free Lives and an LED Installation by Robin Baumgarten.
Saturday May 17, 2025 22:00 - Sunday May 18, 2025 02:00 CEST
Panke Culture Hof V, Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Exhibition

22:00 CEST

A MAZE. Final Boss Night
Saturday May 17, 2025 22:00 - Sunday May 18, 2025 02:00 CEST
Panke Culture
This is our Final Boss Night at Panke.

Music:
Acid Radio House and Gartenschau

Games: 
Distraction Collective Exhibition
LED Game Installation by Robin Baumgarten
Sex with Friends by Free Lives

For Festival Pass holders, One Night at A MAZE. Ticket holders, Public Play Day Ticket holders.
Saturday May 17, 2025 22:00 - Sunday May 18, 2025 02:00 CEST
Panke Culture Hof V, Gerichtstraße 23, 13347 Berlin, Germany
  Party
 
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