Category Games

Kingdom of loathing

Got a big deadline on at the moment so really didn’t need something new to distract me (thanks, Scott). However, since it’s inevitable that I’m going to be distracted by something it might as well be something cool, like Kingdom…

Would you mind taking a photo of my beaver?

I had a wonderful day out down in Birmingham on Saturday for the Grand Finale of Emergent Game, the brainchild of Nikki Pugh. The emergent game is kind of hard to explain… part online, part real-world, it involves selecting a…

The Sky Remains

I’m trying to write a paper on the potential of alternate reality games in education for an urgent deadline this afternoon, so am very easily distractible at the moment and have been studiously ignoring my blog feeds. However, when an…

What strange things we do…

Why have I spent the morning so far finding a cuddly toy, photographing it and creating a Twitter account for it? The answer is here. Looks like it should be a lot of fun.

Passively multiplayer online gaming

The link to the Passively Multiplayer Online Game has been sitting in my ‘to investigate’ list untouched for a couple of weeks as I was worried that when I started playing I wouldn’t get any work done at all. Fortunately,…

MindHabits

I’ve recently become very interested in the potential of using games to change attitudes and behaviours, so was quite excited when I came across MindHabits trainer, a game that claims to “help players reduce stress and boost self confidence and…