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Our two brilliant pocketgame finalists
Finally, pocketgame fans, we're getting to the really exciting bit... ....you came, you saw, you voted, and as of 5pm last night, you had picked your favourite two pocketgames to go head-to-head for...
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This will be the making of us...
See the full gallery on Posterous Tim from Matterbox, Annie from Cadbury and myself just spent a happy hour and a half talking about how we're going to make our two finalists, Flick Racer &...
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Making prototype pocketgames
Well hello there. Long time no speak.I titled the last entry here 'this will be the making of us'... but it could've been the breaking of us instead. It turns out shuffling around the arrangement of...
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A Playful meeting with the pocketgame finalists
We met up with our two pocketgame finalists, Sally Manning & James Wallis, earlier this evening just to prep what we're going to say at the Playful conference this Friday at The Conway...
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A few more prototypes...
See the full gallery on Posterous I met up with Tim yesterday, who's been beavering away on the prototypes. They're starting to look and feel a lot closer to the things that'll go into Matterbox in...
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PLAYFUL10 - arise the Pocketgamers!
There’s a lot of strife in the modern world. Especially here in London – you only need to get on a tube train between 7.30 and 8.30am any day of the week to experience the clammy armpit of human...
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Who wants some Pocketgames..?
Hi there. Welcome to autumn. Cold, innit? As we're just finalising the Matter boxes to send out to people, which is likely to be the first week in December. We've realised that there will be people...
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Q&A with Sally Manning and James Wallis - Spot v Stripe!
With the Pocketgame manufacturing process in full swing, how about learning a little more about the finalists? Lets have a rummage in their brains, and see what fires the minds behind Flick Racer and...
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Testing out Flick Racer in the back yard
See the full gallery on Posterous I've played quite a few games of Eggathon so far, but haven't had a chance to test out Flick Racer properly... Until today.We drew out a track in the back yard. I had...
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The Egg-a-thon strategies
After played a fair few games of Egg-a-thon, I think I've developed a couple of strategies for winning... not that winning's everything of course. But hey, it's a game after all... I've been...
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Here is a box, a gamesical box...
Last night I saw the very first Spots V Stripes Matterbox... it is a wonderful thing: I especially love the way it opens... it splits across the top, around the letters of 'matter': It kind of reminds...
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The Matterboxes Are Landing...
There's great excitement at Spots V Stripes HQ... we've seen lots of Matterboxes arriving through people's doors, and the first thing a lot of folk seem to do is photograph them......here's just a few...
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Winter variations and a Merry Christmas
Hello there, pocketgamersHasn't all this snowy weather been exciting? Well, I say exciting... besides all the travel hiccups, it's done two things to the great...
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Pocketgame... your feedback
Well hello there. As you'll remember, the voting for pocketgame was extended slightly, into the middle of January. All that snow and the Christmas post didn't really help us get all the boxes out on...
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Spot vs. Stripes vs. Bloggers?
Hello Pocketgamers! Happy 2011 – we hope the transition up a digit on the old Gregorian day chart hasn’t adversely effected anyone too much. And we’ve all avoided the trials of (statistically...
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Ladies and Gentlemen... our pocketgame winner is....
So then, here we are... the votes have been counted, the tension is mounting... ...who is the winner of the inaugural Cadbury Spots V Stripes Pocketgame Memorial Ashes Rowse Cup?(ok, that's not...
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Egg-a-thon's Easter greetings... do you see what we've done there?
Hello there, Pocketgame lovers It seemed most fitting that we update you with the progress of our winning pocketgame, Egg-a-thon, on this most eggy of weekends. It's all very eggciting, but we think...
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Right then... who wants a pocketgame..?
Would you like a chance to get your hands on a final version of Egg-a-thon? Well, we're giving the first 5,000 away to people who say "me, please, oh ME ME ME" on the Spots & Stripes facebook...
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Our film - the Story of Pocketgame
We've put together a little film of the pocketgame story, where we talk to Sally, James, some of our judges and some recipients too. We hope you enjoy it, please do pass it on. We'll soon have...
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Egg-A-Thon: Our Finished Pocket Game
See the full gallery on Posterous If you've followed us right from the beginning of our Pocket Game story you may be excited (and even surprised?!) to learn that the end of our journey is in sight. As...
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