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    1. hello! we have announced (most of) the exhibition lineup for Now Play This! feast yr eyes on this: nowplaythis.net/2017-exhibition/
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    40+ games, just in the exhibition proper (plus more scheduled games, events, talks, etc etc)
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      oh yeah - also tickets are on sale now: somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now-play-this Saturday sold out in advance before, so worth jumping on it.
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      i'll do an obnoxiously long tweet thread at some point. that'll be fun, i'm sure.
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        okay! let's start this thread off! we will have a room dedicated to Aïda Gómez's JOY IS HERE, a gigantic wordsearch covering the walls
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          this is a small man (you) inside a nostril of a big man. this is The Whole World by @nkrkit : ncrockett.com/The-Whole-World-Tiny-Travelogue
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            we will be showing a physical realisation of this thread by @FrogCroakley. warning:it continues for 1000 more tweets @FrogCroakley/805827054520438784
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              in our rotating Multiplay Corner, we have @cattsmall's Breakup Squad, of which noted games journo @katbamkapow said: @katbamkapow/837379135013969920
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                we're showing Burly Men at Sea, by @brain_and_brain! in videogame and storybook form. what a beautiful game vimeo.com/155889871
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                  (this one you don't need to wait for the festival for - it's out, you can play it, go buy it, it's here : burlymenatsea.com/)
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                    also out already: I Love Fur by @geometrieva pet exotic creatures! but don't rub them up the wrong way! itunes.apple.com/gb/app/i-love-fur/id1118862675?mt=8
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                      i just counted... i think we have 11 new commissions at Now Play This? i am very happy about this.
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                        including Sandcastles, by @vectorpark i have seen an early build for this,and it's funny & delightful in the best Vectorpark way (not shown)
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                          *dringdring* it's a bicycle bell! this is the joyful sound of Digital Bird Playground by @TomBoogaart (u mess around with friends as a duck)
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                            BECOME A GREAT ARTIST IN JUST 10 SECONDS (@mcclure111 & @smestorp) one of the classical greats of the specific genre it sits within
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                              Constellation (new commission) by @terrycavanagh a shiny new take on that same genre, by a master of many others
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                                okay okay, and obviously this isn't why we're showing it, but it is very funny to me that ^^ and vv are by a couple, and are both called
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                                  Constellation by @hollygramazio trace meaning from the blue-black inkwash of the night sky
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                                    The Art of Ping Pong by @jonosandilands! It's ping-pong, but it's also art. (actual ping-pong, actual art) vimeo.com/53467944
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                                      (I wonder if I'll manage to get through everything before the festival? There's still a lot of things to go)
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                                        Waiting for Godot by @ranjit the traces left by a game that is now gone
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                                          Twelve Games About Counting by me here it is, you can read it without waiting: v21.io/blog/twelve-games-about-counting/ and start playing (you won't finish)
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                                            10000 YEARS by @HTHRFLWRS This place is not a place of honor. No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here. youtube.com/watch?v=jviin7ZoA8w
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                                              we have EVERYTHING it contains everything (you can be a tiger, or an ant, or a pyramid or a dwarf star, or...) @davidoreilly/841698519392034817
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                                                9 plinths, 9 players: Dead Pixels by @MechBird
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                                                    I worked on this one: @beastsofbalance by @sensibleobject
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                                                      and recently nominated for the A MAZE awards, the scratchy mysteries of @the_red_tree's Karambola
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                                                        cast your desires into the void, with @polclarissou's Wish Fishing
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                                            looking up @LeeShangLun's attempts to play each of those games in order twitter.com/search?f=tweets&q=%2312gac%20from%3Aleeshanglun&src=typd