Makes console games for a living. Talking about making new things. The trials and tribulations. Why do we make new things? How do we choose what we like and where does that come from. Our taste develops though life. Things that were big when younger may not be stuff you like now. But they helped […]
Playful: Hannah Donovan and Digital Craft
Hannah Donovan ‘This is not my Jam’ Digital Craft. Has always liked rabbits. Many, many family photos of her dressed as a rabbit when growing up. Did not play computer games. Family had a ‘no-violence’ policy. Which of course meant little TV, or comics. Also no ‘formulaic’ stuff. So no colouring books, or teen novels. […]
Playful: Anab Jain and Faerie Stories
Liveblogged! Mistakes and errors possible Anab Jain. Superflux Faerie Stories for the 21st Century Superflux looks at humanising technology. Her background, in India, where there was little TV, no game consoles. The play world were the stories, comic books. Is going to take a look at how fairie stories allow us to make sense of […]
Playful: Mark Sorrell Hide and Seek
LIVEBOGGED from Playfull. Potential mistakes and errors! Mark is the Development Director at Hide and Seek. Will be talking about Computer Games NOT Video Games. Really about Computer Mediated Games. Take a look at a game called B.U.T.T.O.N You are given a task by the computer, a task in the real world. Then you press […]
SMWLDN: Social approach to engaging current and prospective employees
My second session at Social Media Week London was organised by Unilever and took a look at their work in using a social to employee engagement. There were 4 separate sections to this; a look at employee feedback mechanisms, recruitment, graduate recruitment and flexible working. Each was presented by a different set. A social approach […]