Recently Margaret Robertson joined us for some game development sessions on The Beach.
She's equally happy with digital, consoles, mobile, offline and online gaming. To us she has taken the role of wise gamerturg* along with her colleagues Alex and Holly at… Continue
Added by Carl Morris on July 16, 2010 at 1:30 —
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I put up a challenge last week to all in the community- how to explain the game of Tetris in a dramatic script. We had some great suggestions and our lucky winner was Mick Greenway! A bottle of red is on it's way to him.
As you can see its great fun! You'll get the chance to test out ideas for the show and meet our team of staff and volunteers.
If you want to get involved we are game testing on the 28/29/30 June, 6pm-8pm. Meet us on the seafront outside Cafe Cymru. If you can, let us know you are coming by contacting us at thebeach@nationaltheatrewales.org, otherwise just turn up!…
THIS WEEK. If can get to the beach at Prestatyn and you're over 14 (whether that's just about or by a sizeable margin...) you are very welcome to pop along and meet us to play some games.
At the moment Rhiannon, Bethan
and I are working on refinements to our game design document, which is the definitive guide to everything that can happen in the course of The Beach game.
The game design document - or GDD - is like a script I suppose because there are… Continue
Added by Carl Morris on May 26, 2010 at 5:00 —
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Google are celebrating the 30th anniversary of the classic game Pacman today.
You can play it too. Amazing. Go to google.com and click Insert Coin. Eat the pills. You need to avoid the ghosties but you can eat them if you've taken a power pill.
As a budding game designer, try and figure out the algorithm - the "recipe" if you like - which is guiding the… Continue
Added by Carl Morris on May 21, 2010 at 4:00 —
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There is a lot of experimentation in pervasive mobile gaming right now.
There's still a certain novelty and the long-term appeal of games that rely heavily on this is uncertain. Witness the mobile game Foursquare, which could just be viewed as a ploy to get people to gather valuable
geodata for free.
If you're looking for something a little more edgy, have a look at Blowtooth:…
Call to Arms! TAKE PART IN DOCKERS RUN – A UNIQUE SOCIAL GAMING EXPERIMENT
The Government of Trade has pillaged the world, forcing the Dockers to work in their underground world of smoke filled, polluted tunnels, sealed underneath a building @ latitude: 51.463526; longitude: 3.163412.
The fifth NTW production is called The Beach and has the tag ntw05.
Story of the production so far: we went location spotting and summoned that July feeling at 11 different north Wales beaches. (It was December.) We also did… Continue