Written by Nicky Getgood on Monday, February 8th, 2010 ( Start discussion )
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Pub meet, Monday 15th of February | BARG – A meet-up of the playful BARG gang
It’s mainly a chance to get people together to talk game stuff, but in particular we’ll be looking to get people involved in making a Central Library project happen and programming some playful things for Shenanigans on Saturday 27th of February.
It’s completely free and all are welcome. It’s 7pm on Mon 15th Feb at the back of The Lamp Tavern, 157 Barford Street, Birmingham, B5 6AH.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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Digbeth O’Lympics – Sunday 20th September 2009 – Oh yes, the local sporting mayhem is back. So put Sun 20th Sept in your diaries for the Digbeth O’Lympics. It seems to have grown quite sizably in scale this year, with a long list of pubs playing host to the madness:
- The Spotted Dog (of course)
- The Rainbow
- The Anchor
- The Moseley Arms
- The White Swan
- The Adam & Eve
- The Wagon & Horses
- The Lamp Tavern
Written by Nicky Getgood on Saturday, April 11th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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Emergent Game playtest at BARG #3 – Here’s Nikki Pugh’s account of the Emergent Game playtest in The Lamp Tavern the other week. It was a brilliant game, where we all gained soft, cuddly toy alter-egos whose characters we shaped to interact with everyone else’s, writing each other postcards and setting group tasks.
The undoubted star of the show was Nick Lockey’s bloodthirsty Milo, who took a nasty shine to Ben Whitehouse’s soft touch octopus George:
When we were set a group task of taking other characters on an outing, my trouble-making bird Bobbity couldn’t resist taking the pair of them to the local abbatoir. Milo had fun but George seemed a little on edge:
The most interesting task was set by Michael Grimes, who asked us to all swap characters. None of us could do it – I personally felt I’d injected far too much of myself into Bobbity to be able to. Also, there was a question over whether that might break the whole game – would the points we’d earned thus far go with our characters to our new owners?
However, although we didn’t want to part from them that didn’t mean we weren’t capable of hurting them. When Milo instructed us to give our characters a haircut, Bobbity got a little nick:
But that was nothing compared to the poor snail’s Van Gogh-style makeover:
Written by Nicky Getgood on Friday, March 27th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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BARG #3: Emergent Game – BARG – Come and play on Monday 30 March from 7pm in the Lamp Tavern.
Written by Nicky Getgood on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 ( Start discussion )
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Nikki Pugh Introducing BARG – In The Old Lamp Tavern on Barford St, Digbeth on Thursday 29th from 7pm you will find:
A gathering of folks who’d like to discuss social games and playful things with an aim to either designing their own or just getting involved in playing some interesting stuff. Story-tellers welcome.
Why: Over the last few months I’ve increasingly been approached by people wanting to discuss various ideas for games and other playful experiences. Floating around out there are some awesome nuclei for interesting projects waiting for a few extra ingredients to take them off the drawing-board and into practice. Likewise there are people wanting to work on projects, but haven’t yet got a project to work on.
I’ll be there, discussing ‘games and playful things’, because I’m an overgrown kid.
