YOUR FAVOURITE PLAYFUL CONTEST IS BACK, AND YOU CAN JOIN!

formerly known as Sickhouse Eurogaming) will be held on the 18th of May and YOU can be part of it! 🥁🐔 

🕹️ The Ultimate IndieMash is a contest for playful makers from all over the world, to present their work to an international audience. 

> Hosted live from Enschede and streamed online, the participants get 3 minutes each to show their game, interactive project, immersive installation or playful performance. 
> The challenge is to make the public and the jury want to play the most.


> At the end of the program, the public and a jury of professionals will vote for their favourite project. 
🕹️ 🏅

Besides receiving the Sickest Trophy, the winner of the Ultimate IndieMash will also get a spot at The Overkill Festival 2024! 



Not only are we looking for the most original, extravagant and alternative playful concepts,The Ultimate IndieMash is also a celebration of diversity within the indie-game community. We strongly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in the gaming world. From coding mothers to queer visual artists and indigenous storytellers, everyone is welcome to show their unique projects and creations to our audience online and in the theatre, so sign up now!


This year, for the first time, we’re collaborating with the 

from Wierden, to create an exciting show with music, glitter, glamour and of course the main acts of the evening; the playful contestants!

! You have until April the 24th!  Our team will choose the 10 best fitting concepts to show their work on the 18th of May! 


If you have any questions about the concept, the application, or anything else regarding the Sickhouse Ultimate IndieMash Game Contest, please email niels@sickhouse.nl or join the 


See you all very soon!
💜 Lots of love,
The Sickhouse Ultimate IndieMash Playful Contest team

The Ultimate IndieMash : Playful Contest

Nkhensani Mkhari were in Enschede. Curator and artist from South Africa, they were the curator of Misava last year as part of The Overkill. Due to the pandemic they could not make it to Enschede then, but last week, we were really happy to meet them irl and to listen to their stories. They curated a screening night “Bona” with video art from artists from the African diaspora. We cooked together meals from these artists' original countries, we talked about home and the spaces that can become home. Friday Sickhouse was a space to share about dreams, history, Europe, artistic empowerment in decolonisation processes, appropriation, responsibility…

'Bona' is a seTswana word meaning look or see. Curated by Nkhensani Mkhari, the exhibition is staged as a multi-sensory cinematic experience pairing video art pieces from African artists and the diaspora with food and drinks from their native cultures. The autochthonous aesthetics embedded in the corpus of time based works featured in this curatorial staging explore concepts and ideas of migration, heritage, space and ultimately 'home'. This curatorial staging asks questions of liminality in a translocated space of becoming within the diaspora. In essence Bona aims to evoke the atmospheric valances of these 'Home' spaces through the visual field and food; exploring the relations between people and rituals that mediate these connections, and how they gather in dispersion.

The curatorial staging features works by DB Amorin, Ainslee Alem Robson (VR) , Maniel Arturo Abrue, Ketumile Malesa, Magolide Collective and Nkhensani Mkhari.The meals are prepared together with Nkhensani Mkhari at Tankstation and are all vegan.Nkhensani Mkhari will be present to guide us through the evening.


Looking back at Bona with Nkhensani Mkhari

Sickhouse runs fully on volunteers, and without volunteers, Sickhouse would not exist. Together, we’re making this most upperground underground place of Enschede a place you can play, enjoy, feel safe and explore! As a volunteer you help behind the bar and at the entrance, join with multiplayer games and help with hosting the unique events! And we’re now specifically looking for you! If you want to become a volunteer, please send an email with an introduction of yourself to niels@theoverkill.nl SEE YOU IN SICKHOUSE

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