Video here. Current developments in mobile and locative media, and in augmented / mixed reality media (for instance at the Pervasive Media Studio…
simulation games
I have a chapter in Mark J P Wolf and Bernard Perron’s forthcoming Routledge Companion to Video Game Studies, on Simulation Games. Link to…
The Reality of Imagination
A moment that didn’t make it into the final video version of a microethological study of play across a Real-Time Strategy game (Age of…
Complex
If the object of study of microethology is the event (and often entails the zooming on particularly rich sub-events for close attention), then how can the…
McLuhan, media, massage
Contributed to a day of screenings and seminars recently at the Watershed celebrating Marshall McLuhan’s centenary. Here’s the blurb for the panel I was…
DiGRA 2011
There’s a review of the Bristol interventions into this year’s remarkable, and building-site-themed, DiGRA conference in Hilversum, Utrecht by Jon Dovey here, which saves me…
Monsters, mini-games, and Mr Happy
A video essay on virtual and actual play. Published in Audio-Visual Thinking: a journal of academic videos, no. 3, Sep 2011
Sim You Later
A moment from play with the BBC simulated creature software Bamzooki.