Games
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Play, engagement and climate-changed futures
Yesterday I attended a talk by Ken Eklund, a writer and games designer based in California, at an event organised by The University of Brighton, and excellently hosted by Matt Locke of Storythings. Ken creates ‘cli-fi’ games that allow people to ‘immerse themselves without fear’ in challenging future environmental scenarios. One game requires people to locate unusual…
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The boat comes in for SchilMil Games
Pleased to see that New Zealand’s SchilMil Games, run by a partnership of Amanda (an old school friend who now lives in NZ) and her pal Julia is now well and truly launched, with the arrival of two innovative, spanking-new games. I contributed a little board game packaging copy (a first for me), which is how I got to know…
Peter Kenny: a writer's notebook 