Hello game lovers!
We had so much fun last year running our games festival that we have reached for our fun calendar and set a date for 2012. We can now announce that we will be running the playARK Alternative Olympic games on.........(epic drumroll).........Saturday 7th July.
The festival will be packed with our usual exciting menu of pervasive games, digital games and board games featuring some oldies and some crazy new games including Space Hopper Sports.
We are looking for game designers and creators to submit their games to be part of this year's festival. We are looking for all kinds of games from street games to board games - let your imagination run free. Deadline for submissions is Friday 8th June.
Check out the highlights from last years festival:
PlayARK Game Festival, Games, October 2011 from Jorge Lizalde on Vimeo.
If you want to submit a game or want to find out more information about this year's festival please contact (me) Allie at alison.john@ark-lab.co.uk
Just putting a note in here, the digital equivalent of sticking a twig in the sand.
Gareth at Welsh ICE would like to discuss the possibility of running games at the official opening of the Welsh ICE in April. A huge big empty building to play with!!! Hmmmm... Gareth will make it down to ARK sometime soon to talk about this. So this is just a heads-up.
Also, because I said I'd mention it to you guys and then *completely forgot*, he showed me an app called Aurasma - https://twitter.com/#!/aurasma and http://www.aurasma.com/what-is-it - it could be put to very good use in games... (provided the wifi coverage is decent).
Signing off for now. x
Hello project people,
So, a little later than intended but entirely as promised, I've just inputted (roughly) the projects we listed for 2012 in our Google calendar. It looks very intimidating...! You'd think that none of had any other work to do!
During our meeting at Chapter (11/1/12) we worked out the following schedule for the year:
Jan -
Feb -
Mar - Inspiring Women
Apr -
May - Papergirl
Jun - Papergirl, Hack the City Dublin Trip
Jly - Play ARK, Jorge's Photography project
Aug - Tom Bett's Video Recycling project
Sep -
Oct - Sugru Hack, Made in Roath
Nov - Everwake
Dec -
Have I missed anything? Do i need to change anything? Do you have a project idea of your own that you'd like us to look at helping with? Let me/us know!
Hi All
I'm up to my neck (along with 70 other participants) in a project to co-produce a resource for co-production projects. Would Think Ark like to get involved? More info at http:coproductionresource.wordpress.com or email me direct at ruthdineen@yahoo.com
We have a great christmas game in store for people. If you are interested you can find out more and buy tickets at http://jokulfrosti.eventbrite.com/
It feels like Papergirl Cardiff only happened about a month ago and here we are already setting the wheels in motion for Papergirl Cardiff 2012...
The June event went fantastically well and everyone was really pleased with how people enjoyed taking part in the event, as well as the reactions of the people who received free artwork.
Working with Cycle Training Wales for the first time was brilliant, and with The Printhaus, who are an incredibly accommodating and helpful bunch, and overall it was great to be working and hanging out with a team of such nice people.
So...here we go again. This time, following the enthusiastic reactions in June, we are hoping to make Papergirl Cardiff even better. To do that we are going to need more help, more thoughts and more ideas. And we are going to need you.
Along with the talks and also the games day we also created a game for people to play in the evening. Have a look at the images above for a glimpse of what the game was like.
If you like the idea of mixing a drink with a chat about things going on in our society, why not pop along? View full calendar.
