musings on games, plugged and unplugged

Archives for May, 2009

Who knows? But thanks to a group of Welsh shepherds and their trained dogs we finally know what electric sheep dream of: Pong! No self-respecting game blog can withhold such valuable information from the gaming community. Fast forward the clip below to 0:45 to see for yourself.

Ticket to Ride session

Tonight, André, Big Nick, Paul B. and I played two games of Ticket to Ride: Europe. André won the first game, Nick the second, both in similar ways: Read more… »

Clowns Away!

I’m currently taking the pilot (i.e. not public) presentation of Digital worlds: designing games, creating alternative realities, a new 10-week distance learning course about computer games, their history, their economic and cultural impact and their design. As a practical taster of the issues surrounding the design of games, we get to create our own games using GameMaker. Read more… »