TIGERSHUNGRY

Combined cooing over Steph Thirion’s games mod workshop and layer tennis over the past few weeks got me thinking about a project I’m looking into running that sits halfway between the two.

Currently lacking in a catchy title, the basic gist is a chain processed game/interactive art. Starting with an original (but basic) games code in Processing- this would then be passed along a chain of X people who would each make X number of changes to the code before passing it onto the next person and so on until it gets to the end and we’re left with some weird mutilated but (potentially) beautiful evolution of interactive art/ game. (more…)

…bueller?

This week saw another fresh set of  indie game challenges cast upon a crowd of eager developers by the Experimental Gameplay Project and 2-Bee Games . And of course these two are not the only US based indie game projects which have popped up on my radar in the past year… (more…)

Aside from the mental debackle I’m currently enduring deciding between living on my own, or whether to move in with strangers there is another very important life changing decision looming on the horizon that I have to tackle shortly. Which is after years of simply owning a SNES and a Gamecube I need me a new console. (more…)

17 days and no posts, tut tut tut. This was due to being very busy recently (which 9 on the list partially explains) and not for a lack of subject matter, in fact there’s been a tidal wave of subjects I could have written about that I felt overwhelmed at the prospect of catching up. So here is a rodeo round up of 9 things that I could have written about but didn’t since June 1st… (more…)

Although logic dictates I should be writing about the launch of Lynch’s Interview Project today, I’m not. Instead I’m going to write about an old Game Mod workshop created by Steph Thirion (the guy behind the stylish, abstract and addictive Eliss)  for the Elisava Design School in Barcelona that consumed 2 hours of my time (a good 2 hours) last night (more…)

I’d been planning on waiting till I next attended a sandpit session before writing a post about them, but sadly fate keeps guiding me back to the Midlands when they’re taking place. However today’s website launch/ announcement by social fun making gurus the Playmakers provided the perfect opportunity to write one up now.

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Do I get bonus points for getting the word pervasive in the post title?…. anyhew if it was acceptable to do so I could quite easily just reblog the majority of the contents of Offworld, but as its not I have to pick one and stick with it, so I will not be writing about the updates on the Korean Katamari MMO, epic Chiptune mix tapes,  or pixel themed weddings, but instead fun fair esque space invaders.

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