If you are wondering what to do on 19-21 September, and can make it to Bristol, come along to igfest. With Simon games and iglab at the core and a group of us volunteers around it, the ‘Interesting Games Festival’ looks like it is going to be fantastic.

Igfest website

Since meeting at The Media Sandbox launch event and then being commissioned to invent a game (Comfort of Strangers), Simon and Simon have been building a community around interesting games in the region for some time.

The festival features a range of different games from different creators – some technical, some lofi, some sporty, some geeky. I’m mentoring a couple of them and those alone will be worth the effort. All of them will be fun, inclusive and good for you. So I can’t say it enough:

Come to igfest! Even better, volunteer for us and get access to Bristol Festival and a cool tee-shirt

Simon and the iglab collective in Bristol are running another night of games, gaming, game theory and other stuff like that down at the Pervasive Media lab on Tuesday 11 March. Anyone can come and all are welcome. :

This time it’s personal… thats not just hyperbole this month iglab has a theme. Personal relationships.

Recommended.

Event booking link

More on iglab

Simon’s been doing some serious head-scratching about Swarm theory and gaming as part of his Media Sandbox commission so he’s probably a good person to be running a game workshop too

I’m going through a bit of a lofi phase at the moment (just put in a proposal for an entirely physical conference intervention around pervasive group knowledge including post-it notes and bamboo poles) and am looking forward to the night’s lofi games as well as the techno-pervasive stuff, but all of it will be fun and and learning-oriented.

Here be a prediction: ‘social networking’ and ‘gaming’ will become more prevelant as facilitation techniques in community development practice, but that’s another story.

Come and enjoy.