From hate to fellowship: how games festivals saved my year

2014 won’t go down as a classic year for video games, but there were bright points amid the darkness – and they happened away from the screen
Every time it rains, you’re here in my head
Like the sun coming out
I just know that something good is going to happen.
Kate Bush, Cloudbusting
London, June, 2014. Georg Backer and I are standing in the White Space gallery, just a few hundred yards from the chaos of Leicester Square. We have organised an indie games event called Radius. We do