Workshop: Designing Cooperative Play | Peek Fest 2025

About the workshop:

How do shared games shape the future of storytelling? Together, we will explore our crucial roles as designers for games as critical systems. Learn more about how cooperative games impact how we live, work, and build communities. Foster collaborative storytelling and scaffold emergent roleplay through hands-on prototyping. No previous game design background, technical knowledge, or performance creation experience is required to fully participate. All are welcome!

Things to bring:

• No need to bring any materials. Please bring a Water Bottle if you’d like.

About the facilitators:

Milton Lim and Laurel Green are two of the core artists behind asses.masses, a video game for the stage. They are artists and PhD Students whose work explores the intersection of games, technology, and performance. They bring a breadth of experience as frequent facilitators and mentors in the design of critical games across a variety of mediums—from interactive media to tabletop role playing games, board games, and video games. 

SKAM Studio 846 (846 Broughton)

SKAM Studio 846 has ramped entry to the building, with an automatic push button to open the door. Entry to all rooms and washrooms used as a part of Peek Fest have level access. The venue has a single user, all gender, wheelchair accessible washroom.

Parking & Transit: Pay parking at on-street meters is in effect from 9am-6pm. Parking is free from 6pm-9am and all day on holidays. Payment can be made by coin, credit card, the ParkVictoria app, or the City Parking Card at an on-street pay station within your zone.

It is a 500m walk from the Douglas and Fort Downtown Bus Hub.

Additional information regarding workshop accessibility will be coming soon.

For more information about accessibility, please visit: www.impulsetheatre.ca/accessibility

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Impulse Theatre, and Peek Fest, seeks to create an anti-oppressive and queer-positive space for artists within the community.​ Impulse Theatre is pleased to offer up to 3 paid ($40) spots to arts workers who identify as queer, trans, non-binary, Indigenous, Black, a person of colour, neurodivergent, d/Deaf and/or disabled. Participants are limited to 2 workshops each.

Intake is on a first-come; first served basis until all spots are filled.

Find more info and apply here: www.impulsetheatre.ca/workshops

Presented with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Province of BC, the BC Arts Council, the Victoria Foundation, City of Victoria, and the CRD Arts & Culture Support Service.

Sponsors include Theatre SKAM, Westcoast Academy of Performing Arts and Braem Accountancy Ltd.

Impulse Theatre lives and creates on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lekwungen Peoples, now known as the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations.

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