Archive for December, 2008

Gained in translation

Found via a Google Alerts for gamecity.org links… “…He also discusses how to achieve games and job content much edible to non-gamer audience…” “…illustrator and smouldering events coordinator of Nottingham’s GameCity Fete..” “…an collect of primal to actual gritty artifacts and record…” “..In the instruction of conversation nearly the celebration, which grew out of and [...]

JoCo vs the Undead

Upon clearing my N95 , I find an image of Coulton leading the GameCity zombie chorus. Moments later, I was counting Zombies with the Mayor and Sheriff.

The Devon before Christmas

The longest single conversation I have (which is still in progress) is about workflow. I always have it with the same person, James Newman, who is similarly obsessive about such matters – and finally, in a cruel ironic twist, it never gets resolved, consequently eating hours out of my potential and finite hours available to [...]

Undead Rise…

“Ironically the official number could have been even higher but the organisers actually ran out of wristbands to register everyone.” Google alerts just popped up a nice link about the zombie part of the show, which is as amusing as it is alarming to see the photo’s back. Last week we also got the first [...]

Surfacing

Having shipped GameCity 3 and learnt a huge amount about accessibility, informal learning and what the whole festival is really about, I’m of a mind to move quickly into new projects, not least of which is what we do with GameCity… Unusually, the future of the event has come into focus incredibly quickly this year. [...]