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GameCity5 programme announced

Image courtesy of GameCity

Hot on the heels of our recent update on all things game-related in Nottingham, we hear that some of the details of next month’s GameCity5 have just been announced. Soon after the gathering of game gurus at the G5 Summit (and a little after a CreativeNottingham insight into the inner workings of this high profile festival) the [...]

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Releasing your Inner Gamer

Computer games are fun, there’s no denying it. You’ve definitely played one, even if it’s only Solitaire, or Farmville, or Snake (anyone else miss the classic Nokia phones? Ah, the 3310…) They have also blossomed into one of the UK’s highest grossing creative industries, which means that they’re kind of a big deal nowadays… So [...]

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Guest Blog: Born to work with communities

The title of this blog isn’t exactly my words, but a line that was included in a recent email I received from the COO at Monumental Games. Not being one to blow my own trumpet; and why would I when you can employ someone to blow it for you, working with any community, whether its [...]

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Creative Nottingham Image Competition Now Closed

Our Art & Design Image Competition is now closed to new entries! The Creative Nottingham team will be going through all the designs and selecting which four will appear on our very first postcard marketing campaign over the next few days and will announce the winners very soon! You can check out all the entries [...]

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Introducing Steve Best – Our New Guest Blogger

A warm welcome to our new Guest Blogger Steve Best from Monumental Games and aPint Film Productions, the film production company behind the short horror film ‘Ay Up Me Duck of the Dead’. Steve will be joining us for the next two weeks, we asked him 10 questions to get to know him a little [...]

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Links round-up: Look again

Image of Nottingham’s Trent Bridge by Views of Nottingham

See what it’s like on the other side: Living with Illegals film Screening 4th August, 7pm

What’s it like to experience life as an illegal immigrant? This screening and discussion event at the New Art Exchange explores the realities.  

See into the future 1 - GameCityNights#6 round-up

The plural of TARDIS [...]

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Guest blog: Sunday Service

It’s Sunday afternoon, the family is out, which means it can only be time for catching up with all the work you didn’t have time to do during the week because all that work got in the way.

Having managed to stagger back up to Nottingham by midday on Thursday, just in time for a project [...]

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Guest blog: 19.28

Nottingham is wet, but that’s not why I’m leaving. I was just reading the brief for the guest blogging spot for creativenottingham.com, which explicitly advises you to keep it Nottingham-focussed, before jumping on a train out of creative Nottingham, which is possibly not the best start. But y’know, please understand I’m going away for a [...]

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Introducing Iain Simons of Game City – Our new Guest Blogger

We’re thrilled to announce our new guest blogger, one of the brains behind Nottingham’s GameCity Festival. As is tradition, we asked Iain 10 questions to get to know him a bit better.

Who are you ?

Iain Simons, I direct the GameCity festival.

What brought you to Nottingham?

University – I studied on the now-defunct Contemporary Arts course at [...]

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Creative Nottingham Art & Design Image Competition Relaunch

You may have noticed all has been quiet on the Image Competition front. It got a little overshadowed by the Logo Competition so we decided to hold off for a few weeks and re-launch! All previous entries are still included and all the rules are the same, its just the deadline that’s different.

We’re seeking Nottingham’s [...]

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