Ben Templeton

What do people think are the best charities (trying) to work in Gaza at the moment?

No need for Christmas presents this, year? Just tell everyone to give all their money to the utterly incredible and brave people trying to alleviate hell

#donations #gaza #palestine #charity #christmas

That about sums it up 😅 🤯 😭

Anyone noticed it's October already? We can finally talk about Stranger Folk! A game reclaiming Halloween. Put those plastic fangs away... 🚨 Mega challenge: how do you make a high quality, low… |... Anyone noticed it's October already? We can finally talk about Stranger Folk! A game reclaiming Halloween. Put those plastic fangs away... 🚨 Mega challenge: how do you make a high quality, low cost, ...

I don’t know your LinkedIn but that’s where the general love is kicking off for Stranger Folks and your lovely audio work @monomoon.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/posts/though...

Stood like a total noob in goblin shoes and Lycra at Exeter st David’s is just one of many life goals achieved

Smart!

Ban 'no ball games' signs to get children off devices, play experts say Experts say outdoor play in England has declined by 50% and are calling for urgent change.

If you want kids off devices, get rid of the cars off their streets. Build more LTNs. Stop building car dependent sprawl. Kids want to play outside; it’s their parents who don’t let them because of subconscious (and understandable) fears about them being hit by drivers.

Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has

One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

Here's the reality of this "Jewish safety" argument I keep hearing:

The only world that's safe for us is one that's safe for everyone else, too. You can't kill your way to safety.

And the best way to make a world safe for everyone is to start with our own. Because we have a genocide to stop.

Haggerston park is pretty plane-less far as I can see!

Interesting was interesting!

From the beautiful quirks of Japanese ("I will commit a rudeness") and Polish ("a sneaky and resourceful can-do vibe"), via Comicon, paving stones, toilets, obituaries, postcards and 80s robot dance moves to fairytales as encoded apocalyptic survival manuals

Didn’t know you were there last night 😅

The many, many people who said in their own ways — from ordinary concerned liberals to wild post-structuralists — that television was an evil technology that, whatever its benefits, would also radically distort reality for commercial profit and derange society were completely and inarguably correct.

Toughening migration rules doesn’t challenge Reform. It validates them.

Roughly 17,000 councillors in the UK. Nearly 6500 Labour. Just over 5000 Tory. 3000 Lib Dem.

Reform have 799 and suddenly N.F. is being touted by the media as the next Prime Minister?

The Green Party have 850 councillors. Why aren't the Green Party being bigged-up by the press?

Seriously, why?

I think a lot about how certain small charities and social enterprises, like Arts Emergency, manage to achieve *so much* with relatively *so little*. I expect people would be astounded to see the comparitive budgets of orgs like this compared to some of the better known / bigger ones.

both the act of and purpose of game design is the engineering of conditions under which noticing can happen

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.

Philip K. Dickens

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

UK Global Screen Fund: International Business Development Supporting UK screen content businesses across film, TV, animation and interactive narrative video games to enhance their international activities.

Support to do international business development (travel) for folks working in UK screen industries (including games). www.bfi.org.uk/get-funding-...

A small piece of transparency film in a rectangle, approx the size of a phone screen, being held in a light skinned person's hand. It has an area in the centre that is still clear, but around it is a variable border with straight edges and shelves that has been hashed out with red marker. There is red and white tape along the top. Visible behind it is a wooden worktop, part of a laptop with an Oh no! sticker on it, a cable.

Analogue solutions to digital problems.

32: Touch Grass Also rolling waves, conversational formats and shining your light

Double dammit! You've graciously called my bluff. I suppose the short answer is — because writing books is super hard? It takes me about 4 weeks to crank a 900-word blog post out 😅 thoughtben.substack.com/p/32-touch-g...

I’m getting my request in early! Can you write the foreword when I do my “playful experiences for arts and culture” book in about 13 years? Reckon I’ve got a solid 17 years under the belt so far 🤓

(Can’t wait to dive in)

Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums: Immersion, Emotion, Narrative, and Gameplay Designing for Playful Engagement in Museums is filled with creative fodder for practitioners who wish to make more memorable and engaging experiences that promote a sense of presence, effectively evok...

Ok so now I need to write a damn book

www.routledge.com/Designing-fo...

32: Touch Grass Also rolling waves, conversational formats and shining your light

Conversation. It's powerful stuff!

Notes on various writings about the 'format of our times' plus!

++ Inner Peace Police!

++ First peek at Stranger Folk (our new game for National Trust)

++ An app called...Touch Grass. Has it really come to that?

thoughtben.substack.com/p/32-touch-g...

Found myself going back to an X post @myddelton.bsky.social wrote about affinity mapping in Miro (it was useful!) Thought, heck, I'll return the favour with "Nudge Map". Goal in the middle. Everyone adds Ideas around the outside. Then, everyone nudges each Idea in or out 1. Winners emerge...

OMG more of this in my life

Inside a creative director's eclectic Barbican flat In The Stuff That Surrounds – our new video series – we explore a life through objects

Only a matter of time until you’re on this @jamfactory.bsky.social ! 🔥🔥 new film series about the stuff that surrounds (literally) creatives www.wallpaper.com/design-inter...

It went great and I'm going to call you the moment it feels like things might progress. I can feel an escape room Hack Day brewing at the literal epicentre of global code-breaking.

My feed is filled with REALLY smart people talking about really awful world events which I suppose is the sort of double-edged sword I’m here for

Now I come to think of it this is a mission @sachacoward.bsky.social very much needs to be involved with should things progress