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Category Archives: Extra Work
The Petite Noel Project: Part 3 – Model Making
Following on from The Petite Noel Project: Part 1 - intro and The Petite Noel Project: Part 2 - Electronics Part 1: Prototyping With the electronics at a bit of a dead end last Friday I turned my attention to … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Year Product Design, Extra Work
Tagged #PetiteNoel, cardboard, concept, craft, Dundee, idea, MDF, Milling, plastic, play, Product Design, prototype, technology, University, workshop
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The Petite Noel Project: Part 2 - Electronics
Following on from The Petite Noel Project: Part 1 - intro ***warning - technical rambling approaching*** PART 1 - Getting an LED to pulse The first step was to work out how I could get an LED to dim gradually. As … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Year Product Design, Extra Work
Tagged #PetiteNoel, AC/DC, capacitor, Collaboration, Dundee, experiment, Fairy Lights, freebies, how to, Jamboree, learning, LED, Lightgate, Mike Shorter, Physical/Digital, PICAXE, play, potentiometer, Product Design, prototype, PWM, servo, technology, twitter, University
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The Petite Noel Project: Part 1 - intro
Now that I have finished my dissertation (just to give it another plug!) I have been working on a bit of a side project. I say side project but it is actually relevant to my product design work in a … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Year Product Design, Extra Work
Tagged #PetiteNoel, Charity, Collaboration, craft, dissertation, donate, Dundee, encourage, experiment, Fairy Lights, idea, Jamboree, learning, Physical/Digital, play, Product Design, prototype, technology
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Why don’t we all make games?
This blog post is a means for me to clear up some of my many open browser tabs which are becoming increasingly saturated with varied content and opinions about gamification. To summarise a previous blog post of mine, I like … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Year Product Design, Dissertation, Extra Work
Tagged Adam Penenberg, Byron Reeves, Christopher Cummings, David Helgason, David Rowan, defining, Dundee, foursquare, game design, game theory, gamification, John Tierney, learning, NESTA, physical games, Physical/Digital, playful, points, Product Design, Real / Virtual, research, Ryan Kim, Sebastian Deterding, trend, Videogames, Will Wright, workshop
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NEoN Knights as it happened
So as NEoN 2010 drew to a close so did NEoN Knights. Congratulations to Dundee’s lord of the pixels and chiptune DJ, Edward Shallow, for his enthusiastic and determined efforts which have won him an xBox 360. Credit also is due to Shaun … Continue reading
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Tagged #NEoN10, #NEoNKnights, Blonde, Collaboration, Completed Project, Dundee, experiment, Hannah Maclure Centre, Physical/Digital, points, SuperFly, TayPrint, twitter
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NEoN 2010 as it happened (for me)
Blog extract from Nov 15, 2025 Last week was the week of the NEoN (North East of North) Digital Arts festival in Dundee. It featured guest speakers and artists from varying fields of the digital arts around the world. The NEoN Knights game I was … Continue reading
Posted in Extra Work, Twitter
Tagged #NEoN10, #NEoNKnights, Akinori Oishi, Dundee, gamification, Ian Livingstone, Industry, inspiration, Pat Kane, Physical/Digital, pointification, quotes, Real / Virtual, twitter
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NEoN Knights!
Blog extract from Nov 12, 2025 HERE YE, HERE YE! Throughout Dundee this week there have been mysterious codes appearing, but what are they, what secrets do they hold!? They are the hidden secrets which are part of the NEoN … Continue reading
Posted in Extra Work
Tagged #NEoN10, #NEoNKnights, Collaboration, Dundee, experiment, Film, Physical/Digital, QR, SuperFly, technology
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Ghost Jogging
Blog extract from Nov 12, 2025 Phew, its been a busy few weeks! This is long over due (a week now) but here is the video I made for Ideas Day last Friday. A day where our class had visitors … Continue reading
Posted in 4th Year Product Design, Extra Work
Tagged Collaboration, defining, Dundee, Edgar Wright, Film, find, idea, Industry, University, Videogames
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Short Film: We’ll never get this mess tidied in time!
Blog extract Oct 11, 2025 9:02 AM A short film created by myself and fellow student Neil Anderson. This was created to represent a key idea behind my project which is that games (in particular drawing influence from videogames) can be … Continue reading
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Tagged Collaboration, Dundee, explain, Film, find, gamification, idea, Physical/Digital, Videogames
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SuperFly Ideas
Blog extract from Oct 8, 2025 2:30 PM Last Thursday I met up with MDes Student, Graphic Designer and Superfly guy, Jon Gill. Jon had seen my GPS Hide and Seek video and was intrigued to meet up and see how we could … Continue reading
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Tagged brand, Collaboration, Dundee, experiment, Networking, SuperFly
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Defining Games
Blog extract from Oct 6, 2025 11:46 AM I have not been updating my blog for a while as I have been trying to focus on the foundations of my dissertation. This has been done by breaking down the question, … Continue reading
Posted in Dissertation, Extra Work
Tagged defining, experiment, physical games, Videogames
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GPS Hide and Seek Experiment
Blog extract from Sep 24, 2025 7:20 PM This afternoon Jill Pearson and I made a quick game to experiment with the GPS potential of Google’s Latitude system which allows you to view the locations of your friends as pointers on a … Continue reading
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Tagged Collaboration, Dundee, experiment, find, googleisgreat, GPS, play, Product Design, research, technology, University
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****insert credit to continue****
Its not game over yet! A failed attempt at blog tinkering this afternoon resulted in me destroying and deleting my previous blog. A touch of tampering and technical CPR from Jack Chalkley allowed me to revive it in its new form (yet … Continue reading