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Ian Willey: My Note Games

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My Note Games

This session will not just be a talk, but a live demo too. What could possibly go wrong? Usually, live demos involve a lot of messing around with cables then a mumbled apology along the lines of “The internet’s not working so I can’t do most of my talk”. Not this one though! It involves software and people blowing into things.

Ian Willey from Appatta will be talking about what happens when solfège, fast fourier transforms and game design collide. For the last nine months he and James Everard have been building My Note Games, an iOS App for learners of musical instruments. It can teach you music and track your progress, in the process taking over all the boring bits of music revision and turning pieces of music into games of a sort. Ian Willey will be there with the app and some musical instruments. There will also be some nice prizes up for grabs. Audience participation is encouraged; feel free to bring along your recorder, bassoon, oboe, violin, saxophone, trumpet, guitar, piano…

Not even just for this session. We totally encourage musical people to bring instruments to Bit of Alright if they feel like it.

Live Game: Cat On Yer Head

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Rob Davis of Playniac will be at Bit of Alright, running Cat On Yer Head. COYH, best explained here, is an audience experiment in game design, where the audience and the person running it constantly feed stuff back to each other and devise modifications. Here’s a video of it running at GameCity last October:

Bit of a Game Jam, Hell of a Month!

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George Buckenham (@v21 and developer of Mr Bubble Amidst the Fireworks) is organising a game jam to immediately follow Bit of Alright. Bit of a Game Jam will take place at LSBU on Saturday the 4th and Sunday the 5th of February.

It’s going to be the finish of an amazing few weeks of London indie games events. Also going on:

Monday 16th January: London Indies. Meet other indie developers at The Crown for a beer, and often something like Ninja, clapping games or Johann Sebastian Joust too.

Friday 27th January: The 2012 Global Game Jam. From January 27th — 29th, people all over the world will be developing games together. Find and join a local site here, there’s one in London.

Thursday 2nd February: The Wild Rumpus returns on February the 2nd, with a corking line up including Hokra and Forget Me Not.

Bit of Alright is of course on Friday the 3rd, then Bit of a Game Jam at LSBU afterward. Immediately after that, there’s another London Indies on Monday the 6th of Feb.

As Aubrey Hesselgren said yesterday: “Wild Rumpus + Bit of Alright + Bit of a Game Jam = not going to survive, but will die happy.”