Category Archives: Games

Nike Grid

By Chungaiz | Published: April 20, 2010
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Nike Grid London is your gameboard. You have 24 hours to claim your streets. 40 postcodes across London. North. South. East. West. Grid phone boxes in each postcode. Run between them. Score points. Run more. Score more. Badges awarded for speed, endurance and [...]
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The Fun Theory

By Chungaiz | Published: January 8, 2010
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video The easiest way to change behaviour is to make it more fun to do. You might have seen the piano staircase video before, but now it seems that The Fun Theory (the guys behind the “guerrilla” piece of interactive media) was in fact [...]
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Huxley, Not Orwell, Was Right About “The Future” (i.e: Today)

By Chungaiz | Published: August 18, 2009
Related to the notes I’m keeping on The Future Of Media, here’s a great cartoon strip by Stuart McMillan based on words by Neil Postman – as featured in the book “Amusing Ourselves To Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Showbusiness”. I reckon Postman’s book would go nicely on your reading list with “Everything Bad [...]
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Barcelona v Man Utd (or, Unicef v AIG)

By Chungaiz | Published: May 28, 2009
Interesting post from a friend, Stephen Gill – Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science, Communications and Culture at York University, Toronto, Canada – who has expored the socio and economic backgrounds of the two football giants that met Wednesday night. UNICEF 2 AIG 0 (Homage to Catalonia) I was one of the hundreds of millions [...]
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Interactive Theatre and Experience Economy

By Chungaiz | Published: February 23, 2009
  There’s lots of great interactive theatre going on at the moment. An interesting Brecthian shift for audiences, breaking the 4th Wall, but perhaps important as it taps in to the desire for greater engagement and experiences – which is increasing as the economy falls. Being part of a murder mystery, solving the riddle yourself only [...]
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Games and Men vs Women

By Chungaiz | Published: February 16, 2009
Image courtesy of A*A*R*O*N Following on from our previous post, Future Lab has a blog called Business and Games and they’ve just published a myth-busting list about Men and Women and video games. Read the full report and links to papers etc here, but below are some highlights. Among older adults 65+ who play video games, [...]
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iSkate – iPhone Skate Games

By Chungaiz | Published: February 10, 2009
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Vans’ as yet unnamed skate game for iphone vs. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video TouchGrind a potentially more intuitive skate game for iPhone, but without big corporate backing Which one will win the popularity contest? Vans‘
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Street Fighter x YouTube

By Chungaiz | Published: January 21, 2009
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video A very clever interactive video animation that also seems to be promoting the Street Fighter action figure toys from Sota Toys. When you click on a relevant square (opponent, action button etc) you’re taken to a new video showing the animation, and therefore [...]
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Contagious 2008 RoundUp

By Chungaiz | Published: January 8, 2009
  The Contagious 2008 round up PDF has been released. A fantastic resource of all the cool things that happened in digital marketing in the widest possible sense. Review Obama’s campaign tactics, Radiohead’s House of Cards video and other music marketing, games like Little Big Planet and GTA IV, films like Dark Knight and Cloverfield, [...]
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Auditorium

By Chungaiz | Published: December 3, 2008
Auditorium is a lovely interactive music game, similar to Music Catch that we featured on TheScrapBook before. Control the flow of energy and fill up the bars in order to create a song. Go and explore it yourself.
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