Category Games

Gold hunting on a Sunday afternoon

I’ve just spent a happy couple of hours walking in a park near my house. This is actually a very unusual Sunday activity for me as I usually get bored of walking within about 20 minutes. I do like walking,…

GlamStart

GlamStart is an excellent example of a simple game that is being used as part of student induction at the University of Glamorgan. The game allows players to take on the role of a virtual student, navigate through virtual versions…

Traces of hope

This seems like a very apt title given that I’ve been unable to post for the past couple of weeks because of problems with my ISP – but that suddenly seems to be miraculuously fixed. Hurrah. I got an email…

Operation: sleeper cell

Operation: sleeper cell launched this week and is a large-scale ARG, designed by volunteers, aiming to raise money for Cancer Research. Brilliant. There’s a detailed description over on ARGnet.

Call and Return

(Also known as the Emergent Game part 2.) Niki Pugh has just blogged about Call and Return, a multi-cultural mission-based urban game running from 19 September and currently recruiting players worldwide. She says “as well as negotiating their immediate surrounding,…

Another distraction

Thanks to Katie Piatt for twittering about this: a quiz to guess as many of the most common 100 words as you can in five minutes. I only got 56 but I beat Katie so I’m happy :o)