Posted on Fri 14 Dec 2012
With Christmas just around the corner the Studio has definitely got that festive vibe! It’s been a week full of exciting events, game launches and residency announcements. Read on to find out more: Excitingly this week brought the deadline for the Playable City Award so a lot of the Studio team…
Posted on Thu 13 Dec 2012
On Friday 30 November we were treated to a Lunchtime Talk on Augmented Reality from Jan Warnstam. Augmented Reality (AR) layers media content onto the fabric of the physical world. It is starting to be found in many contexts but what is it really for? Coming from the world of large-scale immersive…
Posted on Thu 13 Dec 2012
On Friday 23 November we were joined by artist Nikki Pugh whose main area of enquiry is centred around interactions between people and place: often using tools and strategies from areas such as pervasive games and physical computing to set up frameworks for exploration. In the talk Nikki spoke about…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
This was a big day. Jan at Bedford Creative Arts had been organising equipment setting up and de-rigging for the event on dec 8th - which had been made particularly complicated because we were not able to set up in the morning of the day of the event… Jan had got Bubbles Lighting on the case –…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
After a 3 week break, we got back together with the Bedford ‘Bat-Choir’ (as they’ve come to be known !). This time we had a chance to rehearse in St Cuthbert’s Hall – which is where we’ll be doing the performance. I invited Ben Salmons, the guitarist from another workshop. He had spent a…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
After a bit of a break in the project while I was away doing some other things… we re-convened and decided to have a trouble-shooting session.. even though things had been running more smoothly, there were still some issues with the Pi crashing… Matt had a version that had been running pretty…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
I booked a room at the College in Bedminster (where I have a workshop space). Mel came along early to try out the device and see what she could do with improvisation. I met Tarim and we got the devices switched on, but somehow we had less time than we thought, and it seemed that the new version…
Posted on Wed 12 Dec 2012
Studio residents Opposable Games have released their debut game, Clockwork Racers. It is a celebration of the best top-down racing games that children will love and adults remember fondly. From the chalkboards of the classroom to picnic rugs and lab benches, players compete to be the fastest…
Posted on Tue 11 Dec 2012
Last Friday we were joined by Tine Bech and Julian Sykes to talk to us about their collaborative project Bike Tag. Bike Tag is a system of led lights, proximity sensors and a Smartphone application. Created during The Playable City Sprint by artists Jayoung Bang, Yunjun Lee, Tine Bech and Julian…
Posted on Mon 10 Dec 2012
Advent Locker is an advent calendar treasure hunt set up by Tom Scott and Studio Creative Technologist Dan Williams. Every day between the 1 -24 of December they announce a code to get into an Amazon locker via twitter. The concept is simple, the first person to get to the locker with the code, wins…
