Take me to your scientist
With less than a month until our live gaming festival, Player we have been speaking to some of the people creating the games you can get involved with over the five days. Read Holly from Hide and...
View ArticleGames Jam
Already excited about this month’s live gaming festival? Fancy designing a game that other people will play? Well then come along to our first ever Games Jam on Friday 30 September - tickets are...
View ArticleBattleships – Ocean Apocalypse
Ever wondered what to do with a room full of model boats in display cases? Play a 3D, to-scale version of Battleships of course! Greg McLaren from Stoke Newington International Airport tells us more...
View ArticleGaming Lates
To tie in with our magnificent PLAYER live gaming festival, the theme of this month’s Lates was – wait for it – gaming. We had the usual heady brew of science talks, silent disco, Beau Lotto’s Lab, pub...
View ArticleGame design tips from the experts
Last Friday the great and the good from the world of live gaming descended on the Museum. They came to inspire the participants in our Games Jam – people who were going to have to design their own...
View ArticleDesign a game in a day
It’s a tall order, but it can be done. During our Games Jam last Friday, the six teams came up with six brand new games, playtested and perfected them – all in the course of a day. We started off with...
View ArticlePLAYER Festival: The Unbuilt Room
Last weekend saw the much anticipated PLAYER Festival come to the Science Museum, and I was there to run the length and breadth of the museum and try out the many intriguing ‘live gaming’ experiences –...
View ArticleGames Jam winners
Last month we held our first ever Games Jam, where participants were invited to create a brand new game inspired by our collections and galleries in just one day. Six games were created but there could...
View ArticleFuturecade is here and wants you to play
By Micol Molinari – Learning Resources Developer What do robotic lobsters and genetically engineered bugs have in common? They both star in Futurecade, our brand new suite of online games based on...
View ArticleMaking a Splash!
Katie Burke, who manages the Interactive galleries and Explainer team, talks about the development of the new Splash! app. One of the things I love about my job within the Learning department is the...
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