Nintendo Authorised Developers

Red Redemption have been accepted as Authorised Nintendo Developers, initially for the DS but also for the Wii.

This is really exciting for us, as one of the issues of being such a small company was achieving this status independently as for most developers it happens via their publisher. The process took some 5 months, but we had assumed it would and so it has not delayed our development at all.

Things are really taking shape with our plans and I shall now be able to start talking a bit more about our experiences in this field. One of the frustrations is always about how open to be when talking about our plans, but things have been going really well and it is high time I started telling people about the ups and downs.

Also in related news we have successfully trademarked Climate Challenge in the UK, EU and US.

Cheers,
Gobion

Korean Games

I had the delight of entertaining a group of visiting Koreans today who were in the UK visiting sustainable businesses via the British Council, which as well as Red Redemption, included Marks and Spencer and the excellent Futerra.

The visit was at quite short notice, so I was not sure what would happen, but as it turned out I need not have worried.

They were all very familiar with the computer games industry, but were very keen to hear about how computer games could be brought to socially conscious themes, such as climate change.

It was intriguing for me to deliver a presentation via a translator, but I definitely learned quite a bit as well, which is one of the things I like most about lecturing. The Korean games industry is very sophisticated, but I was surprised to learn that there are no companies working in the socially conscious arena. From our side I said that I would love to partner up with one or more Korean games companies as I think the Koreans would really enjoy a sufficiently sophisticated and deep gaming experience.

I look forward to following the discussions up anon.

Change of Creative Commons License

Just a quick post to say that this blog is now licensed under the even less restrictive Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK License.


Behind The Iron Mask by Gobion Rowlands is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.

ECI Lecture Video

I've now uploaded the video of my recent lecture on Climate Change and Computer Games at the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University.

You can watch the video [ HERE ] it is about an hour long and is an AVI file.

This video is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK License.

ECI Lecture on Climate Change and Computer Games

I gave a lecture today at the Environmental Change Institute as part of my role as an Associate Lecturer in Climate Change Communications.

The lecture was entitled "The Role of Video Games in Climate Change Communications" and was for the 2008/9 year of the Environmental Change and Management MSc students.

The lecture went really well and I will post a more detailed review of the interesting dialogue that came out of the meeting, but in the meantime I have also uploaded the lecture itself as a PDF in advance of a video of the lecture that I hope to have uploaded in a couple of days with the help of Ian.

The presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence

Download the PDF [ HERE ] (PDF, 2864KB).