Wonderlab2010

Watch our Wonderlab guests play 'Couple Up' - the game we invented after 3 days of great speakers and creativity at the ICA.

Here's a look at the Wonderlab's 3 Day process with footage from the games, discussions and the inspiring speakers all designed to tool up the attendees with intellectual assets to aid their game designing powers. You can ...

Tassos Stevens, co-director of Coney, delivers an 'unfinished manifesto' from Jimmy Stewart, fresh from his show at the BAC, which tells us that it's how we respond to fail, not to epic win, that matters in play.

Author of Herd, and expert in social media, Mark introduces us to homo mimicus, and proves that copying and creating are two sides of the same coin.

Richard, lead designer at Naughty Dog, makers of the endlessly award winning Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, dials in from LA to describe how performance is central to the way he makes games.

Apologies for loss of sound quality on this one...and apologies to Pat especially.

Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic, musician and thinker, introduces us to neotony, and provides an analysis of Charlie Bit My Finger that...

Writer and presenter of the BBC's The Virtual Revolution, and psychologist and journalist, Aleks tells the Lab about moments of amazement and anticipation in her life, and how they should guide what we create.

Vice-president of Area/Code, Kati brings a new perspective on perspective, and highlights what happens when we bring the virtual and the real together.

Jason Anthony, journalist and thinker, introduces us to Shabbatput, and explores why games and religion are closer cousins than many find comfortable to consider.

Sound designer and composer Nick Ryan takes us through an amazing history of the struggle to make sound visible.

Animator, and creator of marvellous webcomic Babbage and Lovelace, Syndey talks about structuring story through visual patterns.

Paul Bennun, head of digital at Somethin' Else, throws out some ideas about how pain can be playful.

Alex Fleetwood, director of Hide&Seek, welcomes Wonderlab participants.

Alex Fleetwood, director of Hide&Seek, welcomes Wonderlab participants.

Tom Armitage, creative technologist at BERG, explores the light and shade of Walsschattenspiel.

Malcolm Sutherland, theatre creator and digital consultant, talks about how external perspectives can challenge our understanding of what is radical.

Margaret Robertson, development director of Hide&Seek, explains how cat poo is a good game design tool.