about

Hello. I'm a freelance game designer, researcher and writer living in London. If you want me to design some games, do some research, build some narrative or talk about games for you, do get in touch: my email address is holly@severalbees.com.

current and upcoming projects

• Animation Decathlon: games on the walls of Kensington Town Hall
• Ludocity: a wiki for pervasive games and new sports
• The Sandpit: playing and testing new games, every month
• Minor Delays: a short story for every tube station

games and events

• Streetlight: projected lights and playful stories
• Space Station Dana: astronaut recruitment game
• Transplantations Tour: song and dance among the trees
• True or False: duplicitous tour guides in Chelsea
• Hide and Seek Sandpit: two days of fun and games
• Trap Street: a collaborative map of lies
• Bees: hunting for pollen
• Hunting for Treasure: time-travel treasure hunt
• Arcade Stories: hidden messages in expert reports
• The Rubbish Game: recycling in the Dana Centre
• Thoughtcrime: you can read their thoughts
• Soho Stag Hunt: a live stag hunt with balloons
• Other games: bits and pieces: hunt cake, eat asparagus

writing

• 16 Across: crossword stories about Adelaide
• Sandpit: occasional blog posts and essays on pervasive gaming in London
• Raspberry Debacle: Food blog, currently on hiatus
• Clockers: clockpunk Hackers parody

useless things

• The Evening Standard Headline Generator: ROYAL CHICKENS TO BE LEGAL.
• The Shakespeare Quote Generator: neither a borrower nor a squirrel be.
• The Mechanical Contrivium: auto-generated trivia is only six percent water
• The Christmas Song Generator: may all your Christmases be kumquat
• What Poetry Form Are You?: surely you want to know

personal things

• A Flickr account: museums and slightly amusing signs
• A del.icio.us account: games and recipes
• A boardgamegeek account: disliking chess
• A livejournal: updated approximately annually