Welcome to the championship

ManyFest

The game half of a company birthday festival in Barcelona, May 2025. Heads or Tails for coins, coins for household things, household things into creatures. Made together with Cossetic Agency.

Heads or tails? Flip the coin.

The courtyard of the Academy of Fine Arts from above, full of guests in costume between striped cones and statues

In short

For: A tech company team, on its birthday
Format: Company festival, 6 hours. Ours was the first half: the game
Place: Reial Acadèmia Catalana de Belles Arts de Sant Jordi, Barcelona
Date: May 2025
Guests: 500+
Preparation: 6 weeks
Made with: Cossetic Agency

The story

A company turned a year older and invited 500 people in costume to an old academy of fine arts in the Gothic Quarter. We made the first half of the evening: a game that turned strangers into partners, partners into teams, and teams into makers.

Nobody needed a skill to play. You flipped a coin, you won or you didn't, and either way you walked away with something to spend.

How it played

Heads or Tails for coins, teams by the colour of your badge, coins for household things in eight Supply Shops. Then forty minutes in the courtyard to turn it all into one creature, give it a character and show it to everyone.

The Round 1 slide with a five-minute timer

The slide that turns badge colours into teams

The team mission slide: create your very own Art-Manyfest

The slides the game ran on

Your turn

The Supply Shop

You have a few coins to start. Buy household things, drag them into place and build your own creature. Out of coins? Flip for more, or look for the coins left around this page.

Build your Art-Manyfest

20 coins

Pick something from the shop to start your creature.

Who are they?

What's their superpower?

Photographs

Before the doorsThe courtyard, early evening

A briefing under the statues, a crew in black tees with the championship sunburst on the back, and a desk of lanyards in the team colours. Every badge already knew which team its guest would join.

The service team in aprons at a briefing in the courtyard, a marble statue behind them

Two crew members from behind, each with a white sunburst printed on the back of a black tee

A crew member smiling behind a desk covered with lanyards in many colours — Lanyards in the team colours

Two crew members setting up a table, the sunburst on their backs

A wristband being stamped on a guest's hand

Everyone in characterArrival

Guests came in costume and the courtyard met them halfway: tall striped cones, a checkered carpet down the grand stairs and characters who never stepped out of their roles.

Waiters with trays and a character in a top hat between tall green and red cones in the arcade

A character in a tall hat and orange wig in the courtyard

Two characters in costume between striped cones

A figure in a white robe on the checkered stairs

The checkered carpet on the grand stairs with a figure in white at the top

A character in a top hat next to a red and green striped cone

On the big screenThe championship

A host on stage, the slides behind her and a sound for the start and the end of each round. Five hundred people flipping coins at once is louder than you think.

The host on stage in a long cape in front of the Manyfest screen

The host on stage in front of a yellow slide explaining that coins buy resources — Art requires resources

A silhouette on stage in front of a purple slide giving the time left

The courtyard filled upForty minutes to build

Boxes, cones and pool noodles became a pink creature with horns, a red dragon, a sky-blue box with one eye. Each team presented its Art-Manyfest to the whole courtyard.