Mark your diaries: Saturday 9th October is BoardGameCamp, part of the London Games Festival, brought to you by the same people who were behind GameCamp back in April, in the same place. We’ll be playing games old and new, hosting discussion sessions and seminars on all types of tabletop games, and even running a competition [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 25th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
475 votes. Flick Racer and Eggathon go through to the final round. One of them will get £1000; and the other will get £3000 and be distributed to many thousands of people in the run-up to the Olympics. So no pressure.
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 9th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Right. If you haven’t voted in the Cadbury Pocketgame stakes yet, you have five hours till the polls close. Head to http://www.pocketgamecompetition.co.uk/ and vote for Flick Racer please… and while you’re there spare a thought for the fine Choc-a-Block, languishing in third place and deserving of your love. Yes, you can vote for more than [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 9th, 2010 | No Comments »
Various people have commented that my entry on the Pocketgame competition website is unreadable. They are quite right, it is unreadable. Here’s the poster-image in all its glory (click on it to embiggen), followed by a link to the competition website so you can vote for me. If they’ve fixed the site-registration issues, which I’m [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on July 29th, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I need your help. One of my designs has been shortlisted in a competition run by Cadburys the confectionary giant for what they call a ‘pocket game’. The first prize is £3000 ($4500) and more interestingly, thousands of copies of the winning game being given away to the public. The next round of voting is [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on July 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments »
The committee of the Diana Jones Award has released the shortlist for its 2010 award. This year the shortlist contains four nominees that in the opinion of the committee exemplify the very best that the world of hobby-gaming has produced in the last twelve months. In alphabetical order, they are: BOARDGAMEGEEK, a website edited by [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on July 20th, 2010 | No Comments »
Following on from the meme that has gone through Kim and Alice and Dan and David and no doubt elsewhere, here are five things I’ve been thinking about: 1. Games 2. Games 3. Games 4. Sex 5. Games (with apologies to Hunt Emerson. Sorry Hunt. Also sorry that Fantasy Advertiser never published that interview I [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on July 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
‘Kidnapped by Ninjas’ is a new video podcast about games—mostly but not completely video games—put together by a games designer, a games developer and a games modder. The modder is wunderkind Harry Hughes; the developer is Cat Burton of Mind Candy, and you won’t be surprised to hear who the games designer is. Episode 1 [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on June 14th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Over at my visiting-lecturer-in-games-design gig, we are approaching the end of the academic year. Final coursework is in, vivas are over, exams are done. Here’s what I’m doing with my game-design students right now. Academia and the real world don’t often touch, but over the eighteen months that I’ve been teaching game design on this [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on June 13th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
…though I may be soon. Yes, this is available for sale.
Filed under: Uncategorized on June 8th, 2010 | 2 Comments »