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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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Unreal City Beta Launch

By On 02/12/2009 · Leave a Comment · In television

The beta of Unreal City’s chapter one “There’s A Crack In Everything” is up! And as you’re all lovely special people and pioneers, go have a look, mess about, and tell us what you think. The video still hasn’t had it’s final sound design pass, and doesn’t have any background music up but we’re [...]

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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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Games of You

By On 03/07/2009 · 1 Comment · In digital, television

A recent article on Offworld claiming that Artificial People are the New Games got me thinking slightly tangentially about the kinds of claims it was making.

It’s the character of Milo that the article focuses on– Milo’s one of the possibilities Microsoft puts forward as a use for its Project Natal motion recognition system– [...]

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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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