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.



June 2010

Sunday 13th starts 6PM

Monday 14th starts 6PM

Tuesday 15th starts 6PM



If not we are also testing games at the end of June too. Details are in the flyer above.… Continue

Eurovision Bingo is a game I found on the web. You need: people, a television set, paper and pens. (Some gin might help too.)

• How to play Eurovision Bingo

• Eurovision Bingo sheets for all the family/gang (direct link to PDF for printing)

Gaming meets theatre... Or is it vice-versa?



GDD



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

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

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:…



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This short video gives a glimpse of Prestatyn Parish Church (also called Christchurch) and its graveyard.



Among the graves are those of shipwrecked mariners and six choirboys who drowned in a tragic accident in 1868.



Our exploration of Prestatyn last weekend forms part of our research for The Beach, ntw05 happening this July… Continue

Some provocative points about theatre and social media in a Lyn Gardner blog post this week.



Sample paragraph:



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Existing members

If you're already a member of this community, thanks for blogging, commenting and sharing your insights. You can safely ignore the rest of this post.



New members

Today we've made a very small change to the way new members are welcomed in. When you sign up to become a member there will be a short delay while your membership is approved manually.



You'll see a screen telling… Continue

I hope your week has been better than this!



You can attempt Hell Tetris here.



It's an interesting contribution to the art and science of game design. A bit like Les Dawson's contributions to piano playing maybe.



Image from… Continue

New help pages



Tom and I have added a whole bunch of Help pages to this site.



There's a new HELP button for easy access, available at the top at all times.



Even if you have experience of using the Community site, there will hopefully still be useful nuggets of info,… Continue

Still playing stacks of games. Here are two fun table-top games.

Pit

Why is this fun game not more widely known? A fast-paced game of trading cards which represent stocks like wheat, flax and barley. You need about…

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Intriguing blog post
http://babylonwales.blogspot.com/2010/02/bertolt-brecht-and-irascible.html

Babylon Wales is one of the absolute best blogs EVER, especially if you like to read about things like George Orwell in Blaenau Ffestiniog and Sophia Loren in Crumlin. (I do.)

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

Worth a read. It's mainly about literature - but I think has a relevance to theatre and what National Theatre Wales is doing.
http://waleshome.org/2010/01/culture-in-a-vacuum-welsh-arts-coverage-in-the-english-language-media/

I can't sign out!



Recently some people have had problems signing out of the National Theatre Wales community website (or "logging out", same thing). The problem: when you click Sign Out, it just remains signed in. If you have this problem, this post will probably help.



The problem is usually caused by old cookies. These are little text files saved locally on your computer which help to preserve your preferences between visits. To solve the problem, you can delete… Continue

Below are some hints to help you to blog on National Theatre Wales social network. At the time of writing a few people have written some posts, you can too.



The network is built on a system called Ning and the interface is pretty friendly. Some of this info is available on Ning's own help pages. But I wanted to give it to you directly and intersperse it with some general tips.



Blog?



Blog is short for "web log".



There are conventions and… Continue