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Ere be Dragons

June 1, 2007

Posted by Clare in: Innovation | Technology | Gaming | Mobile | Trackback

I met with Active Ingredient and Polar Produce today to discuss hosting AI's Ere Be Dragons at Watershed during the Offload Festival. I saw AI present the game at a conference at HP Labs last year and am particularly excited, not only because it fits with iShed's plans for commissions arounnd pervasive computing, but also because the idea for the game was originally conceived for a funding call for Mobile Bristol, and this will be the first time it is shown here.

Using HP Labs, Bristol's Mscapers technology, Ere Be Dragons takes the form of a multi-player game controlled by the participant’s heart rate. The focus of ’Ere be Dragons is the relationship between art, technology and health.

It playfully recasts players’ relationship both with the space they inhabit and with the unseen space within their bodies. The player’s own body becomes an engaging new companion, a soft machine whose physical response to their exertions they can sense and understand as they walk along.

They will hopefully be in Watershed between 13 - 14 September 2007 where the public and schools groups will get a chance to play.