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Ana and Tom from FluffyLogic will be giving a talk as part of Bristol Skill Swap on Thursday 28th June. The talk will be a brief journey though the computer games world with plenty of useful information on games design, the games industry and human-computer-interaction. It will look at; how you make a game, what makes a good game, how narrative features in games and where are computer games going in the future. Tickets are unfortunately no longer available as the event has sold out, but there may be returns. Thanks to Knowledge West who are providing the room and nibbles for the talk.

Skill Swap Game Design Link

FluffyLogic has just completed a monograph for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game. This is a printed game supplement to accompany the main game itself. The Call of Cthulhu role-playing game is a long running projected based on the works of acclaimed 1920s horror writer H P Lovecraft. In FluffyLogic's supplement we ask, what if the investigators (game players), rather than being fearless paragons of order and humanity, were instead the bringers of night; cultists who struggles toward darkness and rage against the light? In our new monograph The Dark Mirror, this is the sinister reality. The Dark Mirror debut at the Tentacles Convention 2007 at Castle Stahleck, Bacharach, Germany.

FluffyLogic CEO Ana Kronschnabl has been invited to speak on a round table discussion with author Andrew Keen as part of the Watershed Media Centre's 25 Birthday Celebrations. The event asks, “What does the growth of the web mean for consumption of culture and for organisations like Watershed?” it features self-proclaimed ‘antichrist of Silicon Valley' Andrew Keen, author of recent web 2.0 polemic 'The Cult of the Amateur - How Today's Internet is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy'.

Congratulations to the Create-a-scape, which won the Education category of the News Statesman New Media Awards 2007. The Create-a-scape project by futurelab, with the support of the DfES and HP Labs is a system that enables teachers and students to create mediascapes (location-based media or 'mscapes') as easily as possible and to find all the resources they need for their creation in one place – software, step-by-step guides and the inspiration to get started. Part of this system is the Mscape wizards created by FluffyLogic.

FluffyLogic Mscapers Content Launches FluffyLogic has been working with Hewlett Packard's Bristol research labs to create interesting content for HP's new iPAQ device in the form of Mediascape, or Mscapes. A mediascape is a mixture of images, sound, video and GPS (global positioning satellite) which together provide an exciting interactive experience. FluffyLogic has been creating games including 'Hidden Danger UXB!', as well as working with HP to create an interactive website wizard that allows anyone to create their own Mediascapes.

HP Mscapers Website

In gestalt psychology 'the whole is greater then the sum of its parts' – we hope to prove this true by making something far greater than its current, constituent parts: FluffyLogic Development Ltd, In this age of convergence, we will be bringing together Meercat Interactive's handheld gaming experience and FluffyLogic's experience in digital media. It is vital that we stay on the cutting edge of technology and creative content by bringing together our collective knowledge of TV, film, web, open source, games, systems and development, to create something far greater than merely the sum of its parts.

The GreenBristol website, designed and built by FluffyLogic, has been included in the Connecting Bristol, Bristol's Digital Challenge bid which has been submitted to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) on 2nd May 2006. Green Bristol enables members of the community to record their experience of the world around them in terms of environmental and cultural significance. Over one hundred such projects have appeared around the world - but this is the first truly interactive system that allows the community to place its own locations, stories, images, sounds and films on a digital map.

FluffyLogic worked with six businesses based in Bristol as part of the 90 Second Challenge. The challenge was to provide a model for how filmmaking, business and the internet could come together and explored how they could work together - in just 90 seconds – and with style! The 90 Second Challenge gave businesses a chance to dip their toe into the creative pool, via a film project. This project was initiated by the Watershed Media Centre and Arts & Business as part of the Electric Pavilion, a space for creative enquiry which made up one of the main elements of Creative Bristol 2005.