From 14th-15th of June, we invited Tom Rus­sotti at Lab.D at the KHM, Acad­emy of Media Arts. Tom Rus­sotti is founder of the Insti­tute for Aesth­let­ics:

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Just in time for the upcom­ing com­puter game con­fer­ence NextLevel (20^th — 21^st of April, Cologne) we fin­ished our small and shiny work­shop publication:

Point&Click, Adven­ture als Spielprinzip

More info and a down­load­able PDF ver­sion is avail­able here.

Last week, 8th-11th of march, we hosted an inten­sive work­shop together with Aram Bartholl at the KHM, Acad­emy of Media Arts. The work­shop was deal­ing with adven­ture games and pub­lic space and was orga­nized by Lasse Scherf­fig and me, its results will be pre­sented at the upcom­ing com­puter gam­ing con­fer­ence “Next Level“.
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Col­lec­Tic is devel­oped as a part of my grad­u­a­tion project for the Mas­ters pro­gram Media Tech­nol­ogy at Lei­den Uni­ver­sity in 2006.

The game is made for the Sony Playsta­tion Portable and uses exist­ing wire­less local area net­work access points in a city as a main game ele­ment. In the game, the player has to move through the city to search and col­lect new access points. In my study I am con­cen­trat­ing on devel­op­ing game con­cepts, that use real life prop­er­ties as game ele­ments, but can be eas­ily played every­where at any moment. By using the phys­i­cal world as a game board I hope to stim­u­late play­ers to redis­cover the real world around them in a new and play­ful way. I am also inter­ested in the social effects, that result from the expand­ing the magic cir­cle of play by mix­ing the real world with the game world.

Jonas Hansen con­cept, design, programming

paper

Col­lec­Tic – Dis­cov­er­ing The World Around Us (PDF)

exhib­ited

• Sep­tem­ber 2007, Come­OutAnd­Play Fes­ti­val, PICNIC ’07, Ams­ter­dam, NL
• July 2007, TEST_LAB: PLAY!, V2_, Insti­tute for the Unsta­ble Media, Rot­ter­dam, NL
• July 2006, BNN United, Radio, NL

down­load

down­load Col­lec­tic v.0.13

web­site

http://pixelsix.net/collectic