Great British Design Quest

Surprising this:

Line 2, item 4 & line 5, item 1
http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/cultureshow/designquest/vote/

The culture show with these games in it will be repeated at 11:20 this evening on BBC2

Little more about it here:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=14413[/quote:443b7ba81a]

Probably somewhat a reaction to the BBC white paper on games, link posted on these boards…

A note from the editors:
We hope this look at gaming in the UK is of use to you in your media planning or thinking. We would like to thank TNS and Firefish Ltd for their work in the Quantitative and Qualitative research respectively, and Rhianna Pratchett for writing this paper.

BBC New Media & Technology: Creative Research & Development, December 2005.[/quote:443b7ba81a]

http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2287

I’m not surprised that Lara Croft made it in. After all, she is more or less the symbol for British games. GTA making it in came as a shock to me, especially in a list by the BBC.

White paper on games.
Government money going into helping developers.
Ian Livingstone’s OBE.
Croft and GTA in a culture poll.

It looks like things are starting to change!

On a previous series of the Culture Show they also had a feature on a form of LARPing