Saturday was GameCamp, a one-day cross-disciplinary games conference in east London organised by the Guardian. Trust a broadsheet newspaper to fundamentally misunderstand what people do on a bank-holiday weekend. Anyway, 120 people invaded Sony’s 3Rooms venue in Shoreditch, and I forced my shiny new business card onto as many of them as possible. I have [...]
Filed under: ARG, conference, game design, game philosophy on May 6th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A couple of days later than the promised 1st October—I’ve been busy with funerals and the like—I can finally break the second part of my ARG-related news. Adrian Hon, my colleague at Six to Start, has been working with Cancer Research UK, and has launched a competition to design and run an ARG (‘alternate-reality game‘ for the slow [...]
Filed under: ARG, charity, competition on October 5th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
…may very well be hexagonal. The cat is not fully out of the bag yet, but I think we are finally at a stage where we can admit there is a cat and a bag, and the two are in proximity, and the cat is very much alive. Not so much Schrödinger’s cat as Humdinger’s. Also, look out for a very interesting ARG-related announcement [...]
Filed under: ARG, business, charity, event, game design, narrative, personal, storytelling, street games on September 28th, 2007 | No Comments »
I finally played Puerto Rico, Andreas Seyfarth’s award-winning boardgame from 2002, over the weekend. I’ve had it sitting on my games shelf for well over a year, but for some reason I’d forgotten I’d never got around to giving it a try. On Saturday evening I was forcibly reminded of that reason. It wasn’t the [...]
Filed under: ARG, arcade games, game design, geek culture, munchausen, online games, tabletop on August 3rd, 2007 | 10 Comments »
According to a phonecall this afternoon, now confirmed by the Perplex City website, the Receda Cube has been found and a Perplex City player is now £100,000 richer. Which explains what I was doing in the conference room of Bradford City FC today giving a PowerPoint presentation about ARGs which had Dan Hon (COO of Mind [...]
Filed under: ARG on February 8th, 2007 | No Comments »