(When David Caruso pops his shades on, you know the game just got serious).

Holly Gramazio is a game designer for the excellent Hide & Seek, who make games spanning everything from live events to museums and mobile apps. She’ll be speaking about games in fiction, which have an alarming propensity to TURN DEADLY, usually in an extraordinarily quick fashion. Whether they have protagonists running from real assassins or playing against death itself for their own soul, these lethal games often have shockingly poor design. Sometimes, they also hilariously misrepresent games or game designers.

Yesterday, Holly opened a spreadsheet up to other game designers and asked for examples of games in fiction. In mere hours, it had filled with around a hundred and fifty hilarious plot summaries, none of which I’ll spoil here. You’re a funny bunch. I’m looking forward to seeing you pick them apart with Holly on the 3rd of February.