Battle for Planet Science – 2009 Adobe Max Semi-Finalist
In March we launched a ten-week episodic adventure game – Battle for Planet Science. The online game was designed to engage young people and develop their interest in the different aspects of Science. The game delivers over half an hour of science driven fun, combining clever panoramic visual and problem solving gameplay to create an [...]
Big Ideas Youth Challenge
A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to be invited to judge at the Big Ideas Youth Challenge 2009. A North East based competition for Young People under the age of 20 with Software/ICT related business ideas. Together with Stuart Varrall of Fluid Pixel Studios, we presented to a group of young entrepreneurs (14-16 years old) about [...]
Games Industry talk at Norton College
Today Adam and I went to Norton College in Malton, to take a talk to year 10 students about what it is like in the game industry and how to get in to it.
It was quite interesting for me to look back from the path I’ve taken all the way from A-level to being involved [...]
School Game Making Workshops
We recently took several game making workshops with Year 12 pupils at St. Bede’s Catholic School in Durham. Stuart from Fluid Pixel joined Cora and myself in taking the workshops which consisted of three half day sessions over three weeks.
During the workshops we introduced the group to the games industry, some of the games we [...]
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:
Video games are good for children
An interesting report from the European Parliament has published findings that computer games are beneficial for children. We have never doubted the benefits of computer games and it is reassuring to have these beliefs are further validated at such a high level. The report outlined some of the key skills that they believe games teach:
video games can stimulate learning [...]
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