news
10.05.2008
Giant Dice runs Silicon Breach at BarCampPerth.
25.04.2008
Kate and Luke are covering ROFLcon for CBC's Spark.
04.04.2008
Kate is presenting at Notacon on academic & journalistic perspectives of the internet.
02.12.2007
Kate and David appeared on the Channel Ten, Nine and Seven news to talk about the launch of Ghost Town!
02.12.2007
Francis Logan, WA state Minister of Industry and Resources has a ball playing
Ghost Town at the game's launch at the
ByteMe! Festival.
15.11.2007
Ghost Town, Perth's first locative game, is set to launch in just over two weeks! Check out our Ghost Town page for details of how you can play.
2.11.2007
David will be speaking about the practical application of pervasive games at the Serious Games for Serious Business mini-conference at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia.
31.10.2007
Luke will be talking about his work on the Orange Revolution game at the Montreal International Games Summit in Montreal, Canada.
26.10.2007
Kate and Luke's work with online youth civic engagement to be published in an upcoming book in the MacArthur Series on Digital Media and Learning.
12.10.2007
Giant Dice has been invited to run a pervasive game for the ByteMe! Festival in Perth, Australia. The game, entitled Ghost Town, will blend the exploration of Perth with bluetooth and SMS.
05.10.2007
Kate will be speaking at Wikisym in Montreal about the novel use of wikis for political purposes (via Skype, from Wellington, New Zealand!)
02.10.2007
David will be running a pervasive gaming workshop at the upcoming ICTWA 2007 conference in Perth, Australia.
25.09.2007
Kate was quoted in Montreal's La Presse about the LOLcats phenomenon (article is in French).
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Hello! We are Giant Dice. We make pervasive games. (What are those, you ask?)
By making activities more fun and playful, we believe that games can be used to better engage people in a variety of settings. The games we build can be used to strengthen communities, enliven and celebrate public space, or to build skills and facilitate training.
Giant Dice was founded by David Fono, a game designer and computer whiz kid, and Kate Raynes-Goldie, a social web and community researcher/builder.
Based out of Perth, Australia we do work in both hemispheres, with collaborators in Toronto, Canada and Wellington, New Zealand.
