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Buy tickets here for Playful ‘09, Friday 30th October, Conway Hall, London.

Well that was a shocker. The early bird tickets went in just under 48 hours.
So we are releasing the first 100 full price tickets from tomorrow.

woo hoo.
Early Bird tickets are now on sale. Get them while they are hot.
Buy tickets here for Playful ‘09, Friday 30th October, Conway Hall, London.
 
Playful is a one-day event all about games and play – in all their manifestations, throughout the contemporary media landscape. It’s a conference for architects, artists, designers, developers, geeks, gurus, gamers, tinkerers, thinkerers, [...]

Is three months long enough to feel nostalgic about something? Probably not, but we’ve been feeling a bit of it whilst going through the videos from Playful ‘08. How come it’s taken so long? Well, the camera we filmed it on didn’t want to export to our computers, so we had to find another camera. [...]

Kars Alfrink, our guest from the Netherlands, has written some terribly nice things about Playful. He’s also put a full transcript of his talk on his blog.
We’ll provide some videos soon we promise.
Roo Reynolds has done a full write up of the day here. At this rate, you should be able to combine all of [...]

Yes. Yes you can. While working on ‘other things’ we’re also trying to keep track of all the post-Playful chatter/blogging/uploading etc. So far the feedback all over the web has been wonderfully positive. Sadly, I could only find one reference to people being really polite. So, thanks to Twitter’s evidence, the One-Behindmanship award of the [...]

Blimey. All done then. What a day.
We’ve sent out personal thankyous by e-mail but we’d still like to publicly shout ‘Ta Very Much’ to all of the speakers from the day. We had the fear, to be sure to be sure, about technology and timings and ‘the order of things’…but our fears proved to be [...]

Earlier today we were trying to think of a good game to play at Playful next Friday. Something with a competitive element, but where no-one dies. So it is with great politeness that we present to you One Behindmanship, a game invented by none other than Pixel-Lab’s very own David Hayward.
Instructions will be provided [...]

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OK, so not big news but we have secured everyone coming to playful a great packed lunch.
Cobs, Chocolate, crisps, fruit and a yummy smoothie from our friends at Innocent.