“looking like we’re making things”
We like the cut of the Really Interesting Group’s cloth.
They make, well, really interesting things. And Russell has been my mentor for a while now, a good excuse for a cuppa and gossip.
They are currently working on a really…
Mudlark at Mobile Cell, Barcelona
Whilst my colleagues at Mudlark where launching in Birmingham and discussing Post Digital (see the fantastic write up by David Hayward) I had the pleasure to be invited to Mobile Cell at Citilab in Cornella, a satellite town to Barcelona,…
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Post-Digital Communication
Last week I went to Post-Digital, the launch of Mudlark, in Birmingham. While I occasionally do bits of work for Mudlark, I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect there, I just knew it would deal with some abiding interests of mine such…
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A visual look at our launch
Our photos are now up on Flickr.
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Reflections on a Post Digital Event.
After a very successful launch of Mudlark in Fazeley Studios on Friday. I just thought I would gather my thoughts and try and make sense of them.
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Feed The Birds
We publicly launched Mudlark on Friday 22nd May 2009 by hosting Post Digital – a day of talking about how digital things and actions manifest in the physical world – at our home at Fazeley Studios in Birmingham. Since Mudlark…
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Post Digital.
To launch Mudlark we thought we’d get a few friends together and have a chat. ”Post Digital” in Birmingham will be a day of talks from inspirational friends and allies, as well as a chance for us to talk about…
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Collaborative Mobs
One of the highlights of Futuresonic last month was the one I had with the CoMob folks. I was that keen to get on this one that I went to the earliest iteration around lunchtime, hence why there were only three of us in ‘The…
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Mudlark at the Social Technologies Summit.
I am speaking today on “Connected Networks and Playfulness” at the FutureEverything/FutureSonic, Social Technologies summit .
My first title given to me by the organisers was “Convergence and Opportunity”.…
TV stuck in its own box.
Just reading Peter Bazalgette’s piece in Media Guardian about how to help the TV industry struggle on. I don’t know if it was Peter or a Grauniad sub who titled it “Thinking Inside The Box” , but the phrase is…
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Mint: Game Mechanics for Personal Finance.
Techcrunch report on mint.com integrating game mechanics into personal finance.
I’m really interested in this kind of thing, as I’ve found that setting goals and applying rulesets is an excellent way of modifying behaviour.…
The new sabotage game.
Reading the Fatcontroller’s site recently I found the “Simple Sabotage field manual” from the US Office of Strategic Services from 1944. It has recently been declassified.
It’s amazing to see how many of the techniques for…
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Grindstone.
Nose to the grind stone this month;
We are currently in pre production on 4 games this month; 2 massivily multiplayer mobile games, 1 locative mobile game for iphone, and a huge new game supported by channel 4.
As well as developing our…
Virtual Washers and Toasters.
On the subject of virtual worlds I’m not an expert, but I don’t think they’re the future. They’ve been written about in fiction in good and bad ways.
There’s the idyllic holidaying to be had in the holosuite…
Social Connections.
Social media falls on the assumption that it must virtualise people’s social skills.
Social games should feed things to people that they can be social about.
Bobby Johnson: Social media is bullshit. People talk about things. The…