Claire Keane
祝日 / Permanent Vacation
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JVL
hello vonnie
Mike Driver
AnasAbdin
noise dept.
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Sade Olutola
Keni
One Nice Bug Per Day
Show & Tell
Monterey Bay Aquarium
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me
we're not kids anymore.
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
Andulka
DEAR READER
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@picklivegamelab
Game: Kick About
Kick About is designed to live on mobile, or as a widget, on the sidebar of any website.
You're watching Spurs v Blackpool on TV
Hit "GO" when you think a load of passes are coming
Each completed pass tots up in the middle of the screen
Rack up the most passes in a minute to win the cash
The cash is dished out at the end of the match
Game: I Smell Goal Pie
You are watching live football on TV
You smell a goal coming, so you hit the "GO" button
The game lights up after the next 5 actions (passes, tackles etc)
You win the cashpot if a goal comes in the next 40 actions
"The proof is in the pudding, and the pudding, in this case, is football. Boof! Eat my goal! The goalie has got football pie all over his shirt." - Alan Partridge
Wanna play? http://playblabber.com/
Hack report
Okay, the hack weekend was a success. We left London last Thursday evening and headed to the country with an idea for a new game. We returned last night with something called Blabber.
Blabber is a word prediction game for the Royal Wedding. If things go to plan we'll roll out the game for other live events and offer a free and paid version.
There are some other things worth mentioning from the weekend. Krzysztof went a whole day without smoking a cigarette. Craig took the idea of burnt toast to another level. Tim Parker relentlessly messed about with CSS transitions which made me mad so I got him in a headlock. Tim Ruffles (above) impressively made a second thing which didn't fit with Blabber but might well grace the internet very soon. And Levente didn't get lost like he did in Portugal last summer. But sometimes I wonder if Levente ever wanted to be found.
You can play Blabber at www.playblabber.com. We'd love to know what you think of Blabber. Leave feedback in the comments or at @playblabber on Twitter.
IDENTITY UPDATE
The identity now consists of Georgia, parchment and purple. It's an exaggeration of the real Royal Wedding invite.
Plus we're using the Crown of Saint Edward, the one shown at the top of the official Royal Wedding invitation.
The Blabber logo, all dressed up, ready for the Royal Wedding.
A few early pics of the hack weekend
We’re in Gloucester on our hack weekend, and our new game is 6% complete. The game is called Blabber. Will reveal more later.
For now, here are some photos.
Our horse, "Apple"
Hack pad, Oak House
A backdrop of rolling fields
Fruit to keep us going
Parker is naughty, he works alone
Developers, heads down
Photos have been moved to this post.
Our friends over at Mint detach from reality every year and go to the country to build web apps. I've been to most of them. They're a blast. And the apps produced are imaginative and technically brilliant. Andy Bell takes great joy in reminding me that I once said that the Web App Weekender is up there with Christmas.
The Picklive team is working its socks off trying to make Picklive better. Insight, iteration and time will deliver us the holy grail of Product-Market Fit. But more opportunities exist in real-time gaming, and finding time to build new stuff and explore is hard. So, like Mint, we've decided to hide away in the country for the first 3 days in April and do a Game Lab Hack.
By day 3, the Sunday, we'll have built and launched one of the ideas from the Game Lab. Er, that's the plan anyway. We'll post some pictures and updates on this blog as we go.
Rawkets Micro
We had a brainstorm at Picklive last night. Krzysztof our CTO came up with a way to spice up Rawkets, a multiplayer game made by Rob Hawkes.
The idea is simple. Every kill you get earns you 5p. If you get killed you lose 5p.
Buzzword Bingo
Tim suggested this idea back in December when we did New Game Day.
Here's the idea. It costs £2 to enter a Buzzcard. Your Buzzcard contains predictions of what you think will be said most on a show like X Factor or Britain's Got Talent. As the show unfolds your guesses light up and earn you points. The more points you get the more likely you are to win some dosh.
Here's a quick interactive demo if you fancy giving it a go.
I'm not confident about this game, so here goes nothing.
Basically you bet (£1) on which minute you think a goal will be scored. The big numbers represent the minute in the match. The dark grey represents how much of the match has gone. The pot (top right) gets split among the people that predict the correct time of the goal(s).
21: How it works
Live footie is on the box
50p gets you one spin on 21
Shirt numbers of the next 3 players to touch the ball spin in
If the shirt numbers add up to 21 you win the cashpot
Andy Bell of Mint Digital suggested this idea.
TUBE BET
This is a bit of fun. It's inspired by the live train map for the London Underground created by Matthew Somerville.
Passing Game: How it works
You are watching live football on TV
The Passing Game costs £1 for 2 plays
Hit “Play” before a decent passing move
20 consecutive passes wins the cashpot
Andy Bell of Mint Digital suggested this idea.
An intro to the Picklive Game Lab
The Picklive Game Lab is where we share ideas for new games. If the games are good we’ll prototype them and playtest them and with a bit of luck build them.