Off the back of Adrian Hon’s excellent post on the Death of the BBC and the case for public service games, I’ve been taken up in discussions with a couple of work colleagues about whether the BBC should make games at all. Some say that the BBC shouldn’t get into gaming, because then it would […]
Read more "Should the BBC make games?"(This entry is cross-posted from the BeeBCamp blog) the London schedule board – image by Roo Reynolds It is done. BeeBCamp 3 has come and gone, leaving a trail of tweets, photos and blog posts strewn in its wake. With a total of 11 tables spread across 2 cities having simultaneous sessions, I can’t hope […]
Read more "BeeBCamp 3 – the Wrap-Up"Whew, it’s done. Hive Mind Challenge 1.0 has come and gone like a whirlwind. You’ll remember that the Hive Mind Challenge is a game that Adrian Hon and I developed. It’s a cheating pub quiz – you’re allowed, and supposed, to use any means necessary to answer the questions. This includes searching the internet and […]
Read more "Hive Mind Challenge: the Wrap Up"What skills will journalists need in 2020? This was one of the questions we discussed on Monday morning at Open ’09. Will journalists need to know how to code HTML? To shoot and edit video for the web? To write stories in 140 characters? The more we talked, the more one simple answer coalesced in […]
Read more "Journalists Need Collective Intelligence – OPEN ’09"Yesterday I spent the morning hanging out in a nightclub, talking about the Future of Journalism™. It was a part of Open 09, a creativity and innovation event organised by the good people at UCLAN in Preston. Talk about the future of journalism usually seems to revolve around a few big questions: 1. How do […]
Read more "Journalism by Any Means Necessary – OPEN ’09"One evening a couple of weeks ago, my mate Neil called me. He wanted to know something specific: which of the Great Lakes drains through Niagara Falls? This isn’t usually the sort of thing he calls for, so I was a bit surprised. But it turned out that his girlfriend was at that very moment […]
Read more "Hive Mind Challenge"For a big part of my life, I’ve made and maintained friendships through violence. Not real violence, of course. But simulated weaponry and fantasy combat is the glue that binds my gang in Montreal. It’s also cementing the connections between members of the pick-up Halo team that I play with here in London. Playing together […]
Read more "Blow me away, my friend"I spent a lot of today in Stories From Numbers, a day of talking about data-driven journalism and linked data from the BBC’s Future Now project. It was a dense day full of interesting talks. Here’s one of the highlights. More or Less Richard Vadon, Richard Knight and Olly Hawkins are from the team at […]
Read more "Stories From Numbers"Here’s something really cool. lose/lose is a video game the plays like an old-school space shoot-’em-up. It’s got your vertically scrolling spacescape, full of presumably hostile aliens. It’s got your lone gunship out to destroy them all. And it’s got one hell of a twist. Each little alien sprite you encounter on your deadly cruise […]
Read more "Backup your hard drive: it’s lose/lose"BeeBCamp 3 is coming, and man am I excited. This has been in the works for quite a while. Finally we can let you all know about the imminent innovative awesomeness. In the wake of BeeBCamp 1 and BeeBCamp 2, BeeBCamp 3 is going to continue inviting people from across the BBC into a roiling […]
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Philip Trippenbach 