Results just published from a pilot industry panel reveal the top priorities for film and games industry professionals. Employers from the film industry joined Creative Skillset’s influential online industry panels and took part in its pilot survey in February. Following the success of the pilot, the first of three annual surveys will take place in…
Calling all artists, techies, designers, playmakers and all round mavericks. There’s a new award in town and it’s not afraid to push boundaries. Criss-crossing the intersections between art, technology, play and culture, the Playable City Award is looking for imaginative, interactive and accessible interpreations of what it means to have fun in public urban spaces….
In case you haven’t heard yet, last week brought the news that games studio Hide&Seek, our friends behind The Building Is… and the recent Hide&Seek Weekender, are opening a new office in Soho, New York. The game studio already has commissions lined up but pssst…they will be revealed later in the autumn. Margaret Robertson flew…
ExPlay Festival 2012 organisers have announced this year’s keynote will be UKIE’s CEO Jo Twist. Taking on the role earlier this year, JoTwist has been working to make the UKIE trade body relevant to modern games development by giving its members access to the latest platforms, experts, and technology they need to grow as a…
This October, London’s Science Museum and The Pervasive Media Studios in Bristol are turning themselves over for 24 hours to the ExPlay Game Jam. Organised by this year’s ExPlay festival and led by bio-medical scientists from the Wellcome trust, game developers from all over the country will have one short day to design and build…
Like mushrooms after rain, all manner of colourful circular shapes have sprung up over London. They come in a range of colours, are about a foot wide, and grow on the ground and walls for the duration of the London 2012 Olympic Games Read the stickers, and you’ll discover a simple set of rules you…