Welcome to Away From Keyboard. Our goal will be to document of the rapidly exanding field of “Big Games” - large-scale, real-world gaming.

The topics we’ll be looking at include (but aren’t limited to): pervasive gaming, location tracking games, ARG’s that phone you up, send you faxes, or otherwise intrude into your “regular” life, games that use augmented reality, games with smart objects, new urban gaming and other playful misuses of public space, live-action role playing, GPS games, bluetooth games, wifi games, RFID games…

We’re especially interested in exploring the place where the new technologies of mobile computing and ubiquitous communication overlap with new ideas in game design. But it’s the games, not the technology, that interests us, so we’ll be on the lookout for all new forms of large-scale, real-world gaming regardless of how they’re implemented.