Month: May 2007

The next PerGames conference will be held in Salzburg, Austria, on the 11-12th June.  

The PerGames series of international symposia addresses the design and technical issues of bringing computer entertainment back to the real world with pervasive games.

At the conference, IperG, the pervasive gaming design research group, are also running a series of tutorials:

PIMP – A SENSOR-ACTUATOR PLATFORM FOR PERVASIVE GAMES – Karl-Petter Ã…kesson, Olov StÃ¥hl
BUSINESS OF PERVASIVE GAMES – Mattias Svahn
GAMEPLAY DESIGN PATTERNS IN PERVASIVE GAMES РStaffan Bj̦rk, Jussi Holopainen
AUGMENTED REALITY IN PERVASIVE GAMES – Irma Lindt
HANDHELD AUGMENTED REALITY – Daniel Wagner
HYBRID USER INTERFACE DEVELOPMENT – Carsten Magerkurth
ETHICS OF PERVASIVE GAMING – Markus Montola, Jaakko Stenros, Annika Waern

Wish I could go! 

Check out: www.pergames.de

Chris Joseph, Digital Writer in Residence at De Montfort University, has awarded me (and 4 others) the Thinking Blogger Award for being a blog that gets him thinking. Thankyou so much Chris, I feel quite ace.

The Thinking Blogger Award is a blog meme that was started by Ilker Yoldas. Details about his great idea are on his blog, The Thinking Blog. 

Here are 5 Blogs that Make me Think:

• Brad Beren’s Mediavorous: I have only just discovered Brad’s blog but he discusses a topic that is part of my research (and therefore passion): a cognitive approach to culture, community, marketing, new media.
• Bryan Alexander’s Infocult: I just love Bryan’s unending and wonderfully well informed and considered posts about information, culture, education and much more.
• Christopher Penn’s personal blog: Christopher takes such care with his posts, and provides lovely insights and solutions to life. He makes me think about doing life better.
• Corvus Elrod’s Man Bytes Blog: I don’t always agree with Corvus’ views but I just love the continual discussion about the building blocks of story and game. Yummy!
• Jak Boumans’s Buziaulane: Jak has been working with content and industry in all forms for a very long time. He is very generous and insightful with his posts.
• Steven D Levitt’s & Stephen J Dubner’s Freakonomics: After reading their great book, it is so good to have their flawless analysis, quirky views and refreshing nature on tap.
• Jason Mittell’s Just TV: I love the way Jason generously shares his top-notch research into television.

Oh, and if I got my numbers mixed up. I can’t count. 😉

 

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