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We Dare, and It’s Kind of Awesome

By On 07/03/2011 · 1 Comment · In digital

We Dare – Ubisoft’s new game for the Wii – describes itself as a “sexy, quirky” party game where players are dared to perform a variety of flirty challenges with each other.

VIDEO: Nintendo Wii gets naughty

ETA: The Ubisoft video on Youtube appears to have been made private. Updated with [...]

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The City Never Sleeps – Achim Kern & Marc C. Woehr – using a projector to augment art, specifically graffiti. This is a beautiful example of two artists bringing together their different media, allowing the underlying image to change with time. “Painting light”.

By On 24/02/2011 · Leave a Comment · In video

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There’s No Such Thing As Casual Gaming

By On 28/02/2010 · 2 Comments · In digital

On Thursday, I went along to the Women in Games talk organised by WFTV. Lots of interesting points cropped up in the panel, which included Kim Blake from Blitz Studios and games-writer and journalist Rhianna Pratchett. The best parts of the conversation were about narrative and storytelling in games, and how [...]

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Nothing New, Everything’s Borrowed

By On 25/09/2009 · Leave a Comment · In digital, television

Reading an article about the Prix Ars Electronica, which is the Oscars for digital art. It makes lots of nice points about object-based art, particularly the kind of art where the object and interaction interface itself is the content. Which means that the “art” can be taken out of the galleries and become a [...]

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Interactive Fiction

By On 10/06/2009 · Leave a Comment · In digital

I’ve been playing various hypertext adventures recently; there are some very good, slick, well-written ones out there. The most obvious example is Emily Short, the watchword on ‘literary’ IF. (Her blog’s a great resource on IF in general, with guides, recommendations and lots of cogent analysis of games, as well as some good info [...]

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The Internet is Like a Radioactive Spider, See

By On 09/06/2009 · 9 Comments · In television

One of the big omissions in this blog so far has been me talking about my Mysterious Project– rather silly, as it’s what I spend the vast majority of my time thinking about these days. It’s a multimedia narrative, told online through a mixture of websites, short video-clips, audio messages, emails and images. It’s called [...]

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