Okay, so some time today, the Apple Tablet is going to be announced. That much seems certain. Everything else is a guessing game. And ‘game’ is the operative word. It’s a game that’s being played by every newspaper, many bloggers, and even has its own scorecard. Games need players, and I don’t like to be [...]
Thought I’d break blog silence (only just got internet at home again) to post a link to Launchball, a game that we’ve just launched on the Science Museum website. I’m immensely proud of it – even though an agency, Preloaded, did the actual design and production for us. Pushing through the idea of simply doing [...]
I’ve just come across Dan Lockton’s thoughtful post on Education, forcing functions and understanding, which looks at some of the ways in which textbooks and computer software can sometimes try to ‘force’ learning within educational contexts. The post is part of his Architectures of Control blog, a look at how design tries to force behaviour, [...]
Just played BBC History’s new online game, ‘CDX‘, via the promo curently on the BBC homepage. It’s a really slick piece of work – an interactive 3D environment in Flash, with the ‘point and click’ style gameplay of old adventure games (which I used to enjoy). The game is a tie-in to the tv programme [...]
Was amused to read Will Self talking about the Science Museum (where I work as a Web Developer) in his column in the Saturday Independent this week. ‘The best way of reducing my children to hysterical and bemused laughter is to take them to the Science Museum in London, specifically to the basement. For down [...]
Over the last few weeks in the run up to Christmas, every newspaper magazine I’ve read has featured a ‘best 50 toys’ list – presumably to entice the desperate last minute shopper. As these lists seem to be fairly arbitrary – I spent a few hours over the last few days compiling my own list [...]
Last week I launched my first public project in my new job as a web developer for the Science Museum: The NMSI Christmas Game. NMSI is the family of museums consisting of the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum (York), the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Locomotion : The National Railway Museum at [...]
Hmm, I haven’t done this for a while, a video clip taken from my phone. This one’s a bit silly, it’s me playing with the ‘hungry frogs’ game that I bought last weekend: As I’m sure you recognise, it’s an imitation of the original Hungry Hungry Hippos game that you or someone you knew had [...]
I’ve just stumbled across this (via Ben): Monopoly Live. It’s an online game based on Monopoly, whereby you spend your alloted money on properties around the board, pick one of eighteen cabbies fitted with GPS, and then collect rent when any of the other cabbies stops off at your properties. Whenever your chosen cabbie goes, [...]
Spotted at Angel on Saturday. There were tons of them. I still haven’t done it.