A bit of a nightmare situation with the wi-fi meant I couldn’t get on Wordr all day and feed my new monoblogging addiction. Frankie and the boys at Rattle fixed up Wordr especially for our little conference, and made a sort of one-word only event back-channel here.
What Wordr does, which is brilliant, is is collects [...]
Check dis (via Nick Marsh and his pen and notebook, and Flickr):
C’est magnifique! Although it’s gutting that Nick missed the last session. Partly because he should have been there, but also I would have loved to have seen his take on Rex. Possibly, that could have caused a paradox of live drawing, which would have [...]
21. Nicholas ‘Feltron’ Felton sent us a message in the early hours of Friday morning with the terrible news that his place had been grounded (he was flying in from New York especially, you see). There was a resounding “bugger” from all of us as he’d been on our list since before Playful ‘08. His [...]
11. Robin Burkinshaw & Matt Locke. Blimey. I heard a lot of gasps and little OMGs from the crowd behind me during this one, as Matt Locke read excerts (beautifully) from key points in the Alice & Kev story, asking Robin to give his personal reflections on the project, the process, the meaning, and the [...]
I’ve now been sent more than a handful of accounts of what happened last Friday…so I’m going to do my own version with some links in it here…
1. Unwrapping the newspapers, as I’ve already said, was brill.
2. A line of people out of the building and up the road. Rather than the usual drifting [...]
As we’ve ranted on about loads over the past few weeks, we got a newspaper done for Playful with the kind and gracious help of the folks at Newspaper Club. This was exciting for loads of reasons…we like those chaps, we’ve been collecting the papers they’ve been doing and watching closely for Alpha invites in [...]
Seriously, thankyou so much to all the speakers, sponsors, volunteers, attendees, groupies and roadies that were involved in this year’s Playful. It was a grand old day, and we’re now wading through the tweets and blog posts and generally walking around with a “pat on the back” kind of glowy feeling. To quote Katy Lindemann:
Stonking
Things [...]
And there it is, and that’s what’ll happen and when. We can’t bloomin’ wait. We’ve also made a nice Google calendar programme here. Take note!
On Sunday afternoon somebody bought two tickets for Playful ‘09. They were the last two tickets. Well done that man. Achievement Un-flipping-locked!
So we’re all set for the big day on Friday. The newspaper is nearly ready to go to print, the stickers are on the way, Rex has his Over-head Projector to draw on…all that’s [...]
For the past umpteen months we’ve had a slot in the programme reserved for Media Molecule – one of our favourite companies in the games industry. Their game ‘Little Big Planet’ came out the week of last year’s Playful, and since then we’ve watched them build and build on the most love-able game-world around.
The [...]
