Archive for November, 2011

Hello (game)CityHall…

We’ve been toying with the idea for a while of creating a process / research blog for the GameCity project for a while now, and finally we’re having a crack at it. The lovely team at GCHQ are ticking the main sites over very nicely now, so there’s actually very little writing input I have [...]

Things people said about GameCity 6

I always forget to do this and end up with either a clutter of pinboard links, browser bookmarks or a .xls from Chris with *everything* in it… Mostly this year, people have been amazingly kind and the response to the prize has been nothing short of astonishing. We’re a very lucky festival…   Six. Media [...]

New Narratives Published

James Newman and I contributed  a chapter to this new book from the University of Nebraska Press, New Narratives : Stories and Storytelling in the Digital Age. Our chapter is wholly concerned with the intertextuality of the LEGO Star Wars universe, looking at the narrative relationship between film, game and other media as experienced by [...]

IGN Podcast from GC6

The first of a torrent of wrap-up posts about the festival, lest I forget everything that happened. Here’s Jimmy and I on an ‘early’ morning podcast with the brilliant Keza and Stu from IGN. 22:44 minutes of barely keeping it together can be heard here