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I am just surfacing after a week of seminars and conferences.
Had a great time in Tampere, Finland at the Gamers in Society seminar where I presented some very early material from some work Seth and I are doing on the Wii. We are developing our Lego Star Wars method in response to this new console and it is proving to be an interesting project so far. Our paper was called:
'Feeling' the force: From Lego Star Wars Cyberaesthetics to Wii Proprioception.
There were lots of really interesting PhD students presenting their research including some work on Online Poker, Casual Gamers/Gaming and Talmadge Wright teased us some more with provocative material from his study of Counterstrike players - cant wait until that material is out there for others to read/use.
Then it was straight in to three days of brilliant women talking about games, art, activism and culture in Newport. The brilliant Babsi Lippe showed her latest work 'papermint' which you can access here:
http://www.papermint.at/
Conference host - Emma Westecott and WIG steering committee member and games researcher Aleks Krotoski were interviewed on Women's Hour on Friday. You can listen again here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2007_16_fri.shtml
More on this when I have recovered.
Professor Maria Heller (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), who is a visiting professor at our department in Bergen, pointed me to a couple of interesting Hungarian communist versions of Monopoly that I was not aware of - Gazdálkodj Okosan! (Spend your Money Wisely!) and Takarékoskodj! (Save!). The real thing was obviously forbidden and condemnded as capitalist filth in Hungary during the communist period, but the state made sure that healthy alternatives were available. Not sure if they are any fun to play (most likely they are not, and that may well be the whole idea), but it is interesting to see the relatively drastical change in game mechanics between the capitalist destructive pleasures of the original and the the more friendly parallell-track work-and-consume mechanics of the progressive versions. Read more about the games at Monopoly Lexicon (in which you may also want to check out your own contry in the index).
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