Conference Season Pt 2.
Over the past two weeks I completed the second part of my conference marathon; I attended the GameHorizon Conference, Channel 4’s Education Conference ‘What comes next’ and the Showcomotion conference; a summary of each follows:
Social Innovation Camp 09
I was fortunate to be invited to take part in the third Social Innovation Camp. For the weekend, I hung up my business hat and went along purely as a geek. I ended up working on an idea called Citipedia. Originally submitted by Dundee based designer Lyall Bruce, Citipedia was a platform for giving communities more information and ultimately power over the space around them.
Conference Season Pt 1.
Around this time of the year I always find that there are a lot of great conferences to attend and combining this with meetings across the UK has meant that I’ve not actually spent much time in the office as of late. It seems like every time I come back from a trip something new [...]
Game Based Learning Conference
We were really in our element at the Games Based Learning Conference as we were able to present our own thoughts on the future of game based learning. Along with the Horrid Histories writer Terry Deary, who gave his views on the failure of the education system, the father of video games, Nolan Bushnell was [...]
Nintendo Wii Technical Conference
We were invited to attend the Nintendo Wii Technical Conference 2009, although we cannot say much about it, for confidentiality reasons it was very exciting to see so many new developments. One in particular is MotionPlus which will really open the doors for some great game developments in the future. It was great to go [...]
Middlesbrough Climate Change Conference
In March, Middlesbrough played host to the climate change conference that attracted over 500 guests from around the North East. The conference addressed the current issues of climate chagne and what can be done not only locally but around the world too. Mayor, Ray Mallon also voiced his opinion on the matter and said that [...]
GameHorizon Conference 2009
Following the last two good years, we’ve signed up to attend the 2009 Games Horizon conference. The two day event brings together ‘great minds’ from across the games industry to discuss the new and exciting.
Last year saw some exciting demonstrations – one of our favourites was Natural Motion’s Euphoria system, for dynamic motion synthesis. This [...]
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