So, a week has passed since launch and Chromaroma has been running well. With launch, we’re now in beta, and thousands of players are busy with Chromaroma in London; charting their tube, bus and bike journeys.
We’ve had a lot…

Rachel Jacobs blogging from the Mata Atlantica, Rio State, Brazil as part of the Active Ingredient project ‘A Conversation Between Trees’
www.thedarkforest.tv
Writing from a VW van, driving through Rio state, searching for the Mata…

We rolled up to the Great Hall at Birmingham University for a night out with friends from Fish in A Bottle, Channel 4 and Screen West Midlands at the RTS Awards, but not expecting to win. Our Such Tweet Sorrow project was nominated in the…

Mudlark and the RSC’s Spring 2010 production of SuchTweet Sorrow has been recognised in nominations for the annual British Interactive Media Awards and the Royal Television Society awards.
The online, real-time, contemporary…

This morning I was staring out the window of my train to work, listening to music. At the exact moment it was passing a nature reserve, my phone shuffled to a piece of music from Minecraft. Not a single human built thing in sight outside…

Sometimes it just works.
We were musing about NESTA’s Make It Local competition, got chatting to our estimable Fazeley colleague Will Perrin of TalkaboutLocal, took the idea that came out of Will’s brilliant enthusiasm to…

Last weekend, I was at the Eurogamer Expo running the Mudlark Indie Games Arcade. This was the third year the IGA has run there with the support of the lovely folks at Eurogamer, and with runaway success Joe Danger emerging from it last…

Toby started the day off with an apology. An apology for GAMEIFICATION. Not so many years ago, the novelty of Chore Wars hadn’t worn off, and it seemed like an amazing idea that everything could be made more fun and motivational with…

So, I was asked by Greg to talk at Interesting North in November. I jumped at the chance – an opportunity to make up for my brief spell on the stage at Interesting 09.
Part of this process was to do an interview with Marcus Brown…

Today marks an important day for Mudlark. We’ve merged with our older sister company, Pixel-Lab. They were supposed to be separate entities, these two companies. But so many opportunities keep coming to Mudlark, and they’re so…

The Mayor of London Boris Johnson is continuing to lead the information revolution in the capital, with the appointment of a new Digital Advisory Board.
The Board, chaired by his Economic Advisor Anthony Browne, will include a number of…

The first ever Media Festival Arts debuted on the 8th September at the Camden Roundhouse, London. The conference brought together the arts, media and broadcast, and technology sectors to explore opportunities for collaboration and…

Lovely piece by Joe Moran in the Guardian about work and play. Working away on so many Mudlark projects and potentials in early August, it’s good to be reminded how awesome pure and simple play can be :
“Play, not work, seems…

Yesterday I returned from the Hide and Seek weekender, where a horde of talented game designers converge every summer for a giant festival of pervasive games. The general rule is that most of the games have to be new, and many of them…

Mudlark on the panel but not on the fence at Digital Content Newfront 2010