This week I’m paralysed on some of my simplest decisions while happily making complex decisions quickly, and being incisive and highly effective on others. This problem occasionally crops up in my work and personal life, and it frustrates the hell out of me; I’m going to write about it here, […]
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I was asked this recently in private mail by someone heading off to University / College. For people choosing between a Computer Science/Software Engineering course vs. a Game Design / Game Development course, I’d said: If you love games, you’ll do both anyway; one you’ll learn in lectures, the other […]
I never imagined I’d reach anything even close to 10k rep. Lots of thoughts and some analysis to come on this in a future post – but I’ve got two deadlines coming up, so very rushed right now.
Background Last year, Pearson ran the first ever Innov8 competition, giving tech startups a chance to make their own innovative new product/project. The grand prize was £5,000 towards building the product. Most of the teams were adults (even: real companies), but a team of students from Blatchington Mill School won, […]
The Code is about to start, and Adrian’s on good form here with some concise bashing of ARG-design stereotypes: “the ‘inverted pyramid’ model of engagement for ARGs and transmedia! But I don’t like it … feels like a post-facto justification of why only a few people get really engaged in […]
A year old, this quote, and the original source is from EA marketing (i.e. accuracy / provenance needs to be carefully checked), but still interesting, from Joey Brezinski: “Its so sick trying to take a video game trick and make it reality, it just takes way longer with your feet […]
With only 250 tickets available, I guess a lot of people in Brighton will be getting one of these today: Dear adam martin TEDxBrighton I’m sorry to inform you that your application to attend TEDxBrighton on 21st January has been unsuccessful. As the first TEDxBrighton event, and offering free tickets, […]
Adrian just wrote an excellent article for the Telegraph, on the role of physical Universities, and the extent to which they’re rapidly becoming irrelevant, eclipsed by low-fi educational resource on the internet. QFT, a few hilights that fit *entirely* with my own experiences, both as an undergraduate, and as a […]
Do you live in San Francisco? Or, have you ever been there, for a conference, perhaps, or a holiday? (since the games industry’s biggest annual conference takes place in downtown SF, literally adjacent to and physically underneath the memorial) Have you been to the Martin Luther King memorial? No, not […]
http://www.youhaventlived.com/qblog/2009/QBlog210309B.html Your professor tells you that you can’t study them for their own sake. However, if they’re as exciting as you say, and all the young people are reading them, then perhaps you could write an educational one? He therefore instructs you to go away and write a novel to […]
In the best tradition of ignoring 100 years of the Scientific Method and the concept of a Control Group, the FCC Commissioner has been talking about American students dropping out because of computer games, MMOs especially.
Alice Taylor, Channel 4 From the ARGs in Charity and Education conference last week. Alice was forthcoming on real data – and, more importantly, C4’s outlook/perspective – on a bunch of issues. Very useful stuff. As ever, errors and ommissions my own, and my commentary [in square brackets].
Juliette Culver Main post on the conference is here. As ever, errors and omissions my own, and any personal commentary is in [square brackets] EDIT: updated with some corrections, courtesy of Juliette
This week, I was at the tiny one-day conference on Alternate Reality Games, and their use in charity and/or education, at Channel 4’s offices in London. All proceeds from the conference went to Cancer Research UK (I think it was mainly organized by the team that this year won the […]
Education is one of the most important drivers of mankind, after oxygen, food, and sex. You would think we took it seriously, as a society. Sadly, we continue to perpetuate insanely stupid myths when it comes to education. Here’s one of those that often annoys me which I was just […]
a.k.a. “An MBA that would actually be worth my time doing” Background When I was an undergraduate at Cambridge University, a new society was founded – Cambridge University Entrepreneurs – which started an annual business-plan competition for members of the university and local community, giving away £30,000 (about $50,000) to […]