There are two exhibitions showing at the Hayward Gallery at the moment, Pipilotti Rist's "Eyeball Massage" and George Condo's "Mental States". Visitors are free to take pictures or make video recordings of Rist's installations, but not of Condo's stuff. While there are signs in the Condo show in the upper gallery warning visitors against touching the exhibits (the "don't take pictures" signs are fewer, and more discreet), there's nothing in the downstairs gallery telling people that they can take pictures, nor anything to warn against touching. I had to point this out to an "invigilator" who objected to my pulling Pipilotti's swimsuit aside in order to get a better look at the video screen within.
Gambling as a video game business model
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The eternal problem of selling a video game as a stand alone package is
that it can and will be stolen. If people think that they can get away with
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Stranger Games
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The 2016 Board Game Studies Colloquium is to be hosted at The German Games
Archive in Nuremberg.
I'll be giving a paper on the *spintriae*, curious Roman...
Maker Faire UK 2014
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We were back at the Maker Faire in Newcastle for our forth time - we were
there at the first in 2009 with our proverbs, we walked in 2010,...
RobotBASIC: A STEM-focused Progamming Language
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I’ve been talking with John Blankenship on LinkedIn about RobotBASIC, which
allows students to control robots as well as create simulations and video
games...
Crazy Desert Car
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Crazy Desert Car is an exciting game in the arcade genre, where the player
will have to face a cruel desert in order to get rich. The essence of the
game ...
The Ontology of Game Spatiality
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This article builds on the cybermedia model to posit a specialised,
four-layered framework of game spatiality comprising representational,
mechanical, mate...
The Trouble With Deckard's Blaster
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I wanted to briefly illustrate a point that has been on my mind a lot
recently. If you wish to carry on any kind of legacy or intellectual
property, you...
Tiltfactor Research Has Impact
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Did you know that our recent construal research is used by corporations
like Samsung as they consider digital vs paper virtues? Or that game design
teacher...
Introducing: How to Keep Time
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Why can it feel like there’s never enough time in a day, and why are so
many of us conditioned to believe that being more productive makes us
better people...
Testing, But At What Cost?
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Although vaccination rollouts are viewed as the catalyst for the recovery
of travel, GlobalData reports that the pricing of PCR tests is also a
critical ...
Passion Competition 2016
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*Unfortunately, due to personal reasons, the organisers will be
post-poning the Passion Competition this year, but expect it to be back
again in 2017 ...*...
Bike Alert wins Guardian reader award
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Back in November I was asked to be one of the “cutting edge” developers at
the Power of Minds Hack with Honda, organised by Rewired State, in one word
it w...
GDC talk: Revisiting Fun
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My GDC 2024 talk Revisiting Fun: 20 Years of a Theory of Fun is now posted
here. Once again, I had a lot of fun drawing cartoon heads of lots of
people wh...
Cold Comfort Farms
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Ten years ago, I was working on a farm in the middle of a cold Sussex
winter, trying to push some huge metal wheelie bins up an ice-covered
slope. After ...