I am the least games-backgrounded of any Mudlark, but when I start playing something it is hard to prise me away.

So you shouldn’t be surprised that while virtual tumbleweeds blow over Matt’s and Toby’s little…

Via Christopher Osborne’s blog (the Geospatial Developer, and Founder of #Geomob – London Geo Mobile Developers Meetup) this beautiful wooden hand cut map of London.
It is on sale at Etsy.
Next big win I would like to get…

Overall, even if it’s proving to be a difficult financial year, games are at least expanding massively in their nature and remit while we also gain a deeper understanding of what they are. Even when industries suffer, the cultures…

Having been invited to enter something for Power to the Pixel’s Pixel Pitch competition, we found ourselves shortlisted in the final. Our Dark Forest Project went up against a series of ARGs (Alternate Reality Games) all coming out…

It has been the season of competitions and pitching here at Mudlark.
This started off with the succesful pitch to the Galileo Masters Competition http://www.galileo-masters.eu/ which we were happy and surprised to be chosen as the UK and…

Earlier in the year, I gave a talk about the importance of games to Ogilvy Labs, in Canary Wharf.  As a follow-on to this, the Ogilvy Healthcare/comms group invited me to Iceland to be a part of an “innovation Workshop”.  The…

I have been asked to be a part of the Birmingham Post’s Big Debate later in the year, and as part of the process I was asked to help write a post for the paper.  I wanted to draw some points together from looking at what innovation…

Mudlark have just been shorlisted for the Artist Taking the Lead (ATL) Programme in the West Midlands. We are part of a shortlist of 5 and after an initial R&D process we will be pitching our developed idea in early October to decide…

UpNext 3D NYC is the first 3D city app we have seen on the iPhone.
The application allows the user to explore Manhattan via a 3D map with the normal subway/search functions.
The demo below provides a walkthough:
“In days gone by this…

Mudlark is building its ongoing relationships with universities in the Midlands which has grown from a long standing relationship with the Mixed Reality Lab (MRL) at the University of Nottingham.  MRL are key academic partners on two of…

Hot damn. I wish I could go to this…but I’m on holiday, and everyone else is busy. We got this e-mail from Alex Fleetwood last week, so we’ll pass the news on in case you hadn’t heard about it:
“It gives me…

Last month day  we were at the BBC Learning Unplugged Pervasive Media Lab Day in Bristol. The (slightly scary but very effective) frontman Ed Mitchell gives a good report here from a facilitator’s perspective. We nicked his photo…

Unconnected with other work Mudlark is doing with the RSC, Charles Hunter entered the recent RSC As You Like It Twitter love poetry competition – 140 characters #rsc – and has just learned that his entry won.

WOH HOO! (Guess…

We had a wonderful day with the people of Ogilvy recently where I gave a talk on “playing with data”.  The day was organised as a Pixel-Lab co-production with Ogilvy, and we got a spot in the running order.  My slides are…

The Peerless Pete Ashton , one of our new neighbours in our Digbeth HQ, has designed an off the cuff campaign for Digital Digbeth – a new development suggested /announced at  last week’s Digital Birmingham event.

Not sure how…