We launched Nutty Footy at our 'Sun and Games' party

We take our fun and games seriously here at The Workshop. You may already know that from the highly competitive Wii Winter Olympics competition we held in London this February.

We recently created our fifth interactive website to support The Royal Institution’s Christmas Lectures and we’re currently developing a game-based iPhone application for The Geography Collective.

Reality football

To celebrate the start of the World Cup, we’ve created Nutty Footy, an augmented reality football game, which we launched last night at a party at our Sheffield office.

We also offered an accessible alternative (of course) – lo-fi, augmented reality, footballer’s hairdo mirror sticker kits. We have a few kits left, so let us know if you’d like one of your own or to complete your set.

Our footballer's hairdo mirror stickers offer some back to basics augmented reality

Win a Nintendo Wii

If you weren’t part of the evening’s shenanigans, you can enter our online competition. Play at work (during lunchtime, of course) or even host your own league with friends at home.

We’re offering a Wii console with 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa game to the player who gets the highest score.

The competition runs for the duration of the World Cup – Friday 11 June to Sunday 11 July. The winner will be announced w/c Monday 12 July, so there’s plenty of time to get on the leader board.

What are you waiting for? You can play Nutty Footy now!

Left: Peter, our winner. Top: Our Top Gear-style leaderboard. Bottom: Getting competitive.

For all our friends, colleagues and clients, we organised our first ever Nintendo Wii Winter Olympics at the Royal Institution. Everyone had a great time, with plenty of eating, drinking and virtual speed skating.

With a Wii to be won and places on a Top Gear-style leaderboard at stake, competition was, on the whole, good natured – with a tussle at the top between Laura James from Specialist Schools and Academies Trust and Peter Stidwill from the Houses of Parliament Education Service.

When the competition drew to a close Peter just edged it, with a time he’d set on his first go! A huge thank you to everyone who came along and joined in the fun.

You can check out the pictures on our Flickr profile.

Left: Lucy gives the camera a wave. Middle: Applause for Maynard Flip Flap. Right: Post-ride entertainment.

The Workshop’s annual bike ride took place last month. A fantastic mix of staff, clients and friends completed the 11-mile cycle around Howden and Ladybower reservoirs, with more than 50 people taking part.

And didn’t we have a smashing time? The weather was kind and Maynard Flip Flap, our post-ride entertainment, kept us going after a rather tasty picnic.

Of course, apart from all the fun and games, our aim was to raise money for charity. Well here’s the good news. Together, we raised a wonderful £1,005 for Roundabout, the Sheffield charity that helps young, vulnerable people gain important life skills and get back on their feet again.

So a huge thank you goes out to everyone who took part in the bike ride, plus all of those very kind donators who contributed on the day or online. You all helped make the event a great success. Thanks – we appreciate it!

There are plenty of pictures from the bike ride over on our Flickr account, so head over and take a look.