Archive for the ‘London Games Festival’ Category
Monday, October 29th, 2007
The Play/Time Lab finished on Friday with seven pitches for games. These ranged from a competition to find the best playground game in the world to a simulation of a totalitarian takeover in the UK following a terrorist attack on London.
A couple of the participants in the Lab have written ...
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
In October 2007, the first Play/Time Games Lab will be staged as part of the London Games Festival Fringe.
Games, not just console games but games on tv, the web and mobile phones, ‘alternative reality games’, pervasive games, street games, are emerging as one of the key creative forms of the ...
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Given that our first meeting was on July 5th, here, the London Games Fringe has been amazingly successful.
It's very difficult to make conferences and festivals in London work as immersive experiences. Cities like Cannes, Edinburgh or Leipzig can seem to be wholly focused on a single event. All the bars, ...
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
The keynote speaker at the Games Summit at the London Games Festival is Shaun Woodward, Minister at the Department of Culture Media and Sport. He makes it clear that the government recognises games as being an important part of the UK’s creative industries. He commits himself to doing what ...
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Wednesday, October 4th, 2006
Pat Kane, author of 'The Play Ethic' is the opening speaker at today's InSync event for the London Games Festival Fringe. He talks about 'play' as being an increasingly appropriate response to and strategy for life in the 21st Century, a move away from the puritan 'work ethic' as a ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
We're beginning to get some shape to the London Games Festival fringe programme' which will look at activity outside the mainstream video games industry, exploring aspects of interactive entertainment as culture, creative form and a market that falls outside the recognised games industry. The Fringe will involve performances, exhibitions, master ...
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Thursday, July 27th, 2006
The London Games Festival, another of the projects I helped to get off the ground while working at the LDA, is a new major international event to celebrate the diverse creativity and cultures of interactive entertainment. The festival is the first of its kind in a country that is both ...
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