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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Media Sandbox participant Simon Johnson has set up iglab, which we thought members of the list might be interested in:<BR>
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<B>What is iglab?<BR>
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Inspired by the games at come out and play <a href="http://www.comeoutandplay.org/">http://www.comeoutandplay.org/</a> and the London games fringe festival <a href="http://www.londongamesfringe.com/">http://www.londongamesfringe.com/</a> iglab is a monthly meeting for people interested in games, especially games that have the ability to sometimes transcend their limits.<BR>
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The Interesting Games Lab offers the opportunity to play some interesting games, meet some interesting people and look at some interesting ideas. Sound interesting?<BR>
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iglab is new very new The first meeting will be on the Tue 12th of Feb, 7pm, at the Pervasive Media Studio, Leadworks, (above Firehouse Rotisserie), Anchor Square, Harbourside Bristol, BS1 5DB.<BR>
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iglab is both a resource for those who would like to develop contemporary games, and an opportunity for us all to gain an insight into contemporary games culture. iglab is open and of potential interest to games developers, artists, social scientists, performers, gamers, to people of all ages and backgrounds. Anyone can submit a game to the lab (see site for details)<BR>
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At the first event there will be: a game from Korea that involves lasers; a game that challenges you to be smarter than an ant; and some playtesting of a social swarm application currently in r+d and not forgetting *FREE* beer provided by South West Screen<BR>
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<a href="http://www.swscreen.co.uk">http://www.swscreen.co.uk</a><BR>
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For more details on the first event and for the rest of the info about the project have a look at<BR>
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<a href="http://iglab.urbanantics.net">http://iglab.urbanantics.net</a><BR>
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Feel free to create a login and start using the site. The site will be used to document the project as it develops, sharing rule sets, and insights gained If you want to contact me for more info or because you have a game you want to bring to the lab please do at<BR>
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simon.iglab@urbanantics.net<BR>
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hope to see you all there<BR>
/simon johnson<BR>
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