Ludic Tea: Toys and the City

Toys and the City - Urban Games Supported by Playful Objects
Guests: Tamer Aslan, Philipp Ehmann - City Games Vienna
Date: 03.12.2025
Time: 17:00
Location: Experimental Game Cultures Studio

Tamer Aslan and Philipp Ehmann explore public spaces and urban areas through playful means. For the last ten years, their company City Games has created physical playful objects and games that help facilitate this exploration for others. In this talk they will examine their design decisions, including physicality, portability and magic - from physical urban gaming boards to scratch card treasure hunts to adventure games for regional development. 

Biography:

City Games Vienna is an urban and serious games studio and publisher, situated in the heart of Vienna. We make games that help our players explore the city or specific topics of interest. We’re best known for our Monster Hunt games - an urban scratch-card-treasure-hunt, in which players find monsters in their own (or a foreign) city and COW CHAT CRIME - a crime thriller on WhatsApp, as a serious game about cows. We’ve also made games for Game City, BOKU, UN, BMWFW and others. 

Tamer Aslan is a creative technologist, as well as the head of City Games and mostly responsible for running the company. Philipp J. Ehmann is mostly responsible for game and narrative design at the studio, and also one of the co-founders. Together they form 2/3rds of the board of City Games.