{"id":244,"date":"2021-05-10T10:20:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T09:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=244"},"modified":"2021-05-10T10:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T09:20:40","slug":"medway-rapture-gaming-creative-festival-3-4-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/05\/10\/medway-rapture-gaming-creative-festival-3-4-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Medway Rapture Gaming & Creative Festival 3 & 4 July"},"content":{"rendered":"
80 acres of Gaming Halls, Live Stages, Creating Games Expo, Careers and Education Zone, Art Zone, Museums and Exhibits. \u00a0With more content than you could fit in a weekend there is sure to be enough to entertain visitors of any age from 2 to 102!!<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
Volunteers are the backbone of events like these. They are hugely beneficial to both the volunteer and to the event.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Use the sign up form<\/a> to register and get involved.<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
The list of Content continues to grow but includes: (Long list warning \"😉\"<\/span> )
\nHUGE GAMING HALLS packed with:
\n-Dozens of VR booths
\n-Hundreds of gaming stations including
\n-Modern Gaming Zone
\n-Retro Gaming Zone
\n-Kids Gaming Zone
\n-Fortnite Zone
\n-Minecraft Zone
\n-Roblox Zone
\n-\u00a31000’s of Prizes with competitions across the weekend from Retro challenges up to the latest games
\n-HADO -AR team warfare
\n-Challenge the miltary esports teams with the army, Navy, Airforce and Blue-Light esports teams in attendance raedy to take you on.
\n-Team VR battles
\n-Massive Nerf Battle Arena
\n-Flight Simulators
\n-Racing Simulators
\n-Rock band Zone
\n-Gamersbus
\n-VRVAN
\n-Robot Wars Arena with 32 teams competing in our enclosed battle arena along with a Heavy Weight Robot Gallery
\n-Stage shows for prizes and entertainment along with competition finals. (Huge list of games for prizes including Fortnite, CSGO, Rocket League, FIFA21, Street Fighter, Tekken, Smash Bros, and many more)
\n– Cosplay Village including:
\n– costume and prop building building
\n– Prize Masquerade competition (Sat)
\n– Exhibition of props and costumes
\n– scenery for photo shoots
\n– cosplay stage shows
\nWargaming and table top halls with
\n– Dozens of gaming tables
\n– Large exhibition battles
\n– wargaming and table top traders
\nSPORTS & ACTIVITIES
\n– Climbing Wall with the British Army
\n– Inflatable Golf
\n– Safe play boxing arena
\n– Virtual Cycling challenges
\n– Sports activities led by Medway Park
\n– Dive tank with the Royal Navy
\n– Nerf Battles
\n– Army Shooting Range
\n– Hands on with military Vehicles
\nCREATING GAMES EXP
\n-Dozens of publishers along with universities and colleges filed with new content and exclusive first looks at up and coming games.
\n– Networking opportunities about along with Careers stands
\nCAREERS & EDUCATION ZONE
\n– Live Science demos and hands on activities from the Royal Engineers, British Army, Royal Navy, and multiple Universities
\n– Careers exhibits
\n– Learning activities with the local Colleges, Universities, communities and Military
\n– Special Performances from University facalties including
\n– Cellular Dynamics – a music experience
\n– Light projection experiences
\n– Live Robot Challenges
\n– Dragster Building and Racing
\n– Sustainable future exhibits and artwork
\nArt Zone
\n– Kids fun art zone
\n– interactive art projects and activities from Nucleus Arts, various community groups and Mid Kent College
\n-Interactive Site Map with TREASURE HUNT and prizes
\n– Art Walls
\n– Explore Musical creation and expression with SparkedEcho and the ElectricMedway festival
\n– Art Exhibits
\n– Make your own T-shirts and other items
\nTraders Market across the event
\nLIVE STAGES:
\nMain Rapture Stage:
\n– DJ Leroy will be performing throughout the weekend along with the gaming stage shows
\nOutside Music stage
\n– Live music from local Bands and talented artists
\n– Beer Tent
\nMultiple Food Halls
\n– Mess Deck Restaurant
\n– Wagon Stop Food hall, soft play zone and Train musuem
\n– Galvanising Shop with small stage and Music zone
\nWORLD EXCLUSIVE Murder Mystery on the HMS OCELOT Cold War Submarine
\nExhibits
\n– Several of the Historic Dockyard Chatham’s Museums and exhibitions will be open for the event including the Maritime Treasures Model Museum and the Women at the Dockyard Exhibition
\n– Multiple Ships will be on display along with military vehicles
\nAnd so much more you wont believe we can fit it into one weekend!!<\/div>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

80 acres of Gaming Halls, Live Stages, Creating Games Expo, Careers and Education Zone, Art Zone, Museums and Exhibits. \u00a0With more content than you could … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}