V Buckenham is the creator of Downpour, an app that makes it easy to make little games on your phone. She is also the creator of Cheap Bots Done Quick, a website that made it easy to make little Twitterbots on your computer. She's also worked as a game designer and developer on titles like Beasts of Balance and Mutazione, and as a curator with Now Play This and Wild Rumpus.

In this talk, V will talk about her practice of making creative tools, which is software that helps people make things they've not made before. She'll be exploring how software can help encourage people to think of themselves as capable and how you can keep these tools alive and useful.

About Lunchtime Talks

Lunchtime Talks are a series of informal presentations hosted in our Pervasive Media Studio. They usually take place at 13:00 on a Friday, are free and are open to everybody.

Come along, bring a sandwich, and get to know more about the Studio community and find out about current and up-coming projects, or residents' work.

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