#RCF24: 21-22 March 2024
Metropool & Wilminktheather
Reality
Check
Festival
- METROPOOL & WILMINKTHEATER
- 21-22 MARCH 2024
WELCOME TO
REALITY CHECK FESTIVAL
The Reality Check Festival, organized by Saxion XR Lab and the Creative Media & Game Technology study program, brings together professionals, students, and enthusiasts who are shaping new realities. Through speakers, workshops, and portfolio checks, our past editions explored XR, gaming, visual storytelling, computer graphics, and game technologies. Excitingly, for the 2024 edition, we are introducing an exhibition floor and welcoming back the XR Art Exhibition.
Because, we dream, we code, we design to create a new reality.
WELCOME TO
REALITY CHECK FESTIVAL
The Reality Check Festival, organized by Saxion XR Lab and the Creative Media & Game Technology study program, brings together professionals, students, and enthusiasts who are shaping new realities. Through speakers, workshops, and portfolio checks, our past editions explored XR, gaming, visual storytelling, computer graphics, and game technologies. Excitingly, for the 2024 edition, we are introducing an exhibition floor and welcoming back the XR Art Exhibition.
Because, we dream, we code, we design to create a new reality.
WELCOME TO
REALITY CHECK FESTIVAL
The Reality Check Festival, organized by Saxion XR Lab, Saxion Creative Media & Game Technology study program, and the ROC van Twente, unites professionals, students, and enthusiasts who are shaping new realities. Our past editions explored XR, gaming, visual storytelling, computer graphics, and game technologies through speakers, workshops, and portfolio checks. Excitingly, for the 2024 edition, we are introducing an exhibition floor and welcoming back the XR Art Exhibition.
Because, we dream, we code, we design to create a new reality.
WHAT WE DO
EXHIBITION FLOOR
SPEAKERS
PORTFOLIO CHECKS
WORKSHOPS
XR ART EXHIBITION
Program
- The door opens at 9:30 on both days.
- The program starts at 10:00 on both days.
- The program finishes at 17:30 on March 21st and 15:30 on March 22nd.
- The first day includes an after-drink from 15:30 to 17:30.
March 21st is packed with captivating talks, an art exhibition to explore, and a chance to engage with various companies showcased on our exhibition floor.
March 22nd offers hands-on workshops, portfolio checks, and another opportunity to immerse yourself in our art exhibition and discover even more companies to connect with.
10:00 – 11:00
Title: Unleash your business idea
Facilitator: Saxion Center of entrepreneurship
Description: Unleash your business idea in just one hour! Join our workshop where you dive into the world of creativity, crafting a dynamic business plan with the business model canvas. Ready to spark entrepreneurial success in 60 minutes? Let’s fast-track your ideas!
Participants: Up to 15
Requirements: None
Duration: 1 Hour
Title: Interactive Sound Installations by Miriam Riefel
Facilitator: Miriam Riefel
Description: In this workshop, you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look at interactive art-tech installations related to sound and music. It’s a brief clinic on how to create such an installation. How do you generate ideas and execute them? How do you create an installation that both young and old want to and can engage with? To truly make something interactive, you must ensure that everyone who enters your installation feels like they have a personal impact on the experience. How do you achieve that? During the workshop, you’ll be introduced to techniques in interactive sound. You’ll play around with some sample techniques, learn about the creative design process of interactive installations, and develop your own idea.
Participants: Up tp 12
Requirements: No Requirements
Duration: 90 Minutes
Title: Video Game Economics: A Different Approach to Game Design
Facilitator: Yvens Reboucas Serpa
Description: In this workshop, we discuss the main theory behind Video Game Economics, and how they can be composed to make games using simple tools. From that, we design basic prototypes for our economies using Excel/Google Sheets, and Machinations.
Participants: up to 16
Requirements: Their computers, access to Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets (online is fine), and a free account on Machinations.io
Duration: 2 hours
Full
Title: How to create a stylized prop
Facilitator: Sisilia Nedyalkova
Description: Come learn the vital skills needed to craft eye-catching stylized props in this workshop. I’ll walk you through the entire process, demonstrating how to create a stylized prop from start to finish. We’ll be using the Maya>Zbrush>Substance pipeline for a hands-on experience in prop design. Let’s dive into the world of prop creation together!
Participants: Up to 20
Requirements: Laptop and Maya-Zbrush-Substance installed
Duration: 2 hours
Full
Facilitator: Miriam Riefel
Title: Video Game Economics: A Different Approach to Game Design
Facilitator: Yvens Reboucas Serpa
12:00 to 13:00
Title: How to create a stylized prop
Facilitator: Sisilia Nedyalkova
Title: Introduction to Unreal
Facilitator: Daniel Valente
Description: The goal of this workshop is to introduce blueprints to developers who have never used Unreal Engine before. You will learn what a blueprint is, and, at the same time, we will build a small game while learning Unreal features and terminology
Participants: Up to 12
Requirements: Laptop with Unreal 5
Duration: 2 hours
Full
Title: Game Development Timelines
Facilitator: Sam Watts
Description: Collaborative and interactive group session to improve understanding of game development timelines, the functions of and outputs created at each stage. The group will work with the facilitator and each other to define, outline and detail the timeline stages based upon shared real-world knowledge and experience.
Participants: Up to 15
Requirements: No previous knowledge required, just a willingness to suggest ideas and work together
Duration: 1 hour
13:00 – 14:00
Title: Advanced sound design in Phase Plant
Facilitator: Ruben Hulzebosch
Description: In this workshop we’ll go over some of the core concepts of sound design and go more in depth into more advanced synthesis methods.
Participants: Up to 20
Requirements: Laptop, headphones, Kilohearts phase. plant (demo/trial). You should also have a DAW installed that can host VST plugins (for example: Ableton, Bitwig, logic, reaper, cubase, fl studio, etc.)
Duration: 1 hour
Title: Introduction to Unreal
Facilitator: Daniel Valente
Title: Irresponsible XR – a novel idea
Facilitator: John Walker and Jeroen Boots
Description: This non-technical workshop is exploring together what we don’t want our future to look like. No one stepped up to protect the public values of XR users and now XR is everywhere, but it went horribly wrong. What unfortunate future will you inherit?
Participants: Up to 15
Requirements: To be announced.
Duration: 1 hour
Title: Hybrid Worlding
Facilitator: Pablo San Gregorio
Description: In this workshop the participants can create props for a virtual world with clay and photogrammetry.
Participants: 15
Requirements: No Requirements.
Duration: 90 min
14:00 – 15:30
Title: AI in conversation, interaction and embodiment
Facilitator: Roger Ter Heide and Nikita Kayal
Description: ImproVive has been utilizing AI across various application areas. In this workshop, we invite you to immerse yourself in a VR experience we’ve developed called “Shuffles in Seeds.”In “Shuffles and Seeds,” we explore the concept of embodiment within VR. We gradually construct and deconstruct your virtual body, leading to mutations and changes in your sense of embodiment. You’ll witness this transformation by observing your own body and by interacting with a companion—an entity that mirrors your actions but also retains memories of both your actions and those of previous players. Your interactions and the collective memory of the companion blend together, offering a unique interactive experience.During the workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to experience “Shuffles and Seeds” firsthand. Additionally, we invite you to delve into the concept of embodiment and its implications. We’ll begin with a brief introduction to our exploration of embodiment and the development of this project. Following the VR experience, we’ll open the floor to questions and discussions surrounding the concept of embodiment.
Participants: Up to 15
Requirements: No requirements
Duration: 90 min
Title: Applied workshop in photogrammetry techniques focused on methodologies and tools used with students within a Virtual Production simulation
Facilitator: Andrea Maggiolo
Description: The workshop will focus on the use of RealityCapture as main photogrammetry tool, with an extra implementation of HoudiniFX for both photogrammetry and cleanup of the mesh.
Participants: up to 16
Requirements: RealityCapture and HoudiniFX 20
Duration: 90 min
Title: Ideation Sketching: The value of drawing
Facilitator: Andre Lammers
Description: There are thousands of powerful tools out there, but nothing beats the ability to draw. In this workshop we’ll go back to the fundamentals of sketching and explore how this benefits your creative process.
Participants: Up to 10
Requirements: Bring something you can comfortably draw/sketch on. This could be a drawing tablet, iPad, or sketchbook
Duration: 90 min
Full
Title: Hybrid Worlding
Facilitator: Pablo San Gregorio
Description: In this workshop the participants can create props for a virtual world with clay and photogrammetry.
Participants: 15
Requirements: No Requirements.
Duration: 90 min
The workshops are also offered on the second day from 10:00 to 15:30. Note that Muziekcafe , Saxion Zaal, and Societeit Foyer are rooms from Metropool & Wilminktheater in Enschede.
10:00 – 11:00
11:15 to 12:15
13:30 – 14:30
14:45 – 15:45
Combining Environmental Storytelling and Level Design in Baldur’s Gate 3
Stimona Milanova
Environment Artist, Larian Studios
Exhibition Floor (March 21st and 22nd)
Join us on March 21st and 22nd at our exhibition floor, where you’ll have the chance to experience demos from leading companies and institutions, showcasing cutting-edge technologies that shape our future.
Experience demos from:
BMS Lab
Connec2
Saxion XR Lab
IRhub
Tijdlab
Witness live sculpting sessions with MimicFX.
Pitch your indie game to Juan Peralta Donate from Flynn’s Arcade.
Portfolio Checks (March 22nd)
Talent meets opportunity at our event! On the second day, our industry partners will be reviewing portfolios right on the exhibition floor. This year, portfolio reviews will be conducted on a walk-in basis—no registration required.
Serious XR
Joravision
Tijdlab
Bohemia Interactive
Denda Games
and more!!
XR Art Exhibition (March 21st and 22nd)
Discover on March 21st and 22nd the works of Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (featured on the March cover of Artreview, 2024) and Ebun Sodipo at the Grote Kerk, Enschede. Through digital art and game installations, they invite you to reflect on their realities and question your own.
Foods & Drinks
The ticket price includes drinks and snacks to be enjoyed during the Reality Check Festival after-drink on March 21st. Lunch is not included but can be purchased at one of the many lunch venues close to the Metropool/Wilminktheater.
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