Knowing and Making

They keep on doing it! Our friends (and now clients) at Six to Start have won another South by Southwest award - this year it's Best Game . The prize is for Smokescreen , "a cutting-edge game about life online", developed with Channel 4. The credits  are about four pages long, but congratulations particularly to those I know personally: Adrian Hon, Dan Hon, Claire Bateman, Margaret Robertson, Lisa Long, Dave Aldhouse, Heather Tyrrell and Alex Chapman. One prize might  be regarded as fortune...to win two looks like carefulness . I'm sure many of you will enjoy the project we're doing with Six to Start if it does go into production. I'd love to tell you about it but then I'd have to...send you to this xkcd cartoon .

Well done to my friends Claire, Dan and Adrian at Six to Start - who have won the Best of Show prize at the South by Southwest Web awards. Their website We Tell Stories , built with Penguin, also won the prize for the  Experimental   category. They've done well to get some big companies seriously involved in the ARG genre, and their work is worth watching. Dan's blog is at http://danhon.com/  - mostly links but occasionally a bit more. Claire makes interesting cross-media narrative performance pieces such as Thinking Aloud  with Annette Mees. Adrian's blog is  http://mssv.net/  and has some nice pieces like this one about Ernst Choukula . They have some investment from NESTA which seems to be making some innovative moves recently. Which reminds me, the Digital Britain report is on its way to a final version soon. It will be intriguing to see how far the final version diverges from the interim draft.