This programme ran from 2008-2010 at the Pervasive Media Studio. For more projects like these please visit the Studio website.

Projects 2010

Company Profile

Mobile Pie is a boutique studio focused on producing innovative entertainment and imaginative games for mobile platforms. Based in the heart of Bristol, the company has received such notable accolades as Channel 4’s New Mobile Game Developer of the Year and has received the Media Innovation Awards’ Trophy 2008.

Journal Authors

Richard Wilson

Will Luton

Blossom Bristol

by Mobile Pie

Can real world data be used to engage people in a playful way, that ultimately informs and inspires change?

Blossom Bristol is a phone based game that encourages people to plant virtual crops in any part of Bristol and watch as they flourish or fail depending on real environmental factors such as the city's air quality, water quality, weather and temperature. The player's real-life activities also feed into their success in the game, with credits and rewards being offered when players choose to shop locally or at a Farmer's Market.

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Journal Entries

Journal Entries

Blossom Bristol Will Be Bloomin’ Fun

Mon 20 Sep, 2010

Here at Mobile Pie we make games. Games can be about making you sad or angry, but mostly, other than the standout exceptions, they're about engaging people by being fun. They get you drawn in, making you seek out the constructions of their world for the sake of exceeding in it.

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Open Source Placecasting

Wed 6 Feb, 2008

So we've been 'gopping', been chased by 'fanny' and otherwise annoyed several Bristolians with our various bluetooth shenanigans but whats been powering all this mischief research? While we get to grips with the exact requirements we need from a bluetooth transmitter we've been using some open source software called Consola (http://www.consola.org/ ) to turn our lovely macbooks into full blown bluetooth pushing ninjas.

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