Jack Lowe
@jackalowe.bsky.social
A geographer who makes games and interactive stories.
Creator of Pin the Tale, a game about discovering and telling stories of places using what3words: https://pinthetale.co.uk/
jackalowe.co.uk
Creator of Pin the Tale, a game about discovering and telling stories of places using what3words: https://pinthetale.co.uk/
jackalowe.co.uk
Pin the Tale will be part of this wonderful event in Sparks on 15th Nov about mapping meaningful landmarks and unofficial place names in central Bristol. Will be old maps galore and plenty of fun, interesting and creative things to do. Drop in any time 11am-5pm and bring fellow Bristolians with you!
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Pin the Tale will be part of this wonderful event in Sparks on 15th Nov about mapping meaningful landmarks and unofficial place names in central Bristol. Will be old maps galore and plenty of fun, interesting and creative things to do. Drop in any time 11am-5pm and bring fellow Bristolians with you!
We also wrote a collaborative poem about Stonehenge, where we each wrote two lines and then Bridget assembled the piece into its final form. You can read it below, or find it (alongside lots of other poetry/stories written about places all over the UK) on Pin the Tale here: pinthetale.co.uk
October 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
We also wrote a collaborative poem about Stonehenge, where we each wrote two lines and then Bridget assembled the piece into its final form. You can read it below, or find it (alongside lots of other poetry/stories written about places all over the UK) on Pin the Tale here: pinthetale.co.uk
Was an absolute joy hosting a Pin the Tale poetry workshop at @pmstudiouk.bsky.social last Thursday with Bridget Hart. Participants shared poems about places all across Bristol, written using what3words addresses, and we even wrote a collective poem about Bristol’s iconic Turbo Island!
October 9, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Was an absolute joy hosting a Pin the Tale poetry workshop at @pmstudiouk.bsky.social last Thursday with Bridget Hart. Participants shared poems about places all across Bristol, written using what3words addresses, and we even wrote a collective poem about Bristol’s iconic Turbo Island!
The featured stories in this one are very cool. Always so inspiring to see how people approach writing stories with what3words and the kinds of places they choose to write about!
You can have a go at writing your own place-based stories with what3words here: pinthetale.co.uk/play
You can have a go at writing your own place-based stories with what3words here: pinthetale.co.uk/play
September 25, 2025 at 10:09 AM
The featured stories in this one are very cool. Always so inspiring to see how people approach writing stories with what3words and the kinds of places they choose to write about!
You can have a go at writing your own place-based stories with what3words here: pinthetale.co.uk/play
You can have a go at writing your own place-based stories with what3words here: pinthetale.co.uk/play
Are you at the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham this week? And do you have a story to share about a place that is meaningful to you?
Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.
Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.
August 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Are you at the RGS-IBG conference in Birmingham this week? And do you have a story to share about a place that is meaningful to you?
Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.
Look out for our Pin the Tale stand in the Teaching and Learning Building foyer, where you can browse our online map, read other people’s stories and add your own.
Now, if you want the map to zoom into where you are (and see your current location via the blue dot), just click the map pin button indicated here. To use this, location must be turned on on your device and your privacy settings must allow your web browser to access location. (2/2)
August 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Now, if you want the map to zoom into where you are (and see your current location via the blue dot), just click the map pin button indicated here. To use this, location must be turned on on your device and your privacy settings must allow your web browser to access location. (2/2)
Proud moment for Pin the Tale: what3words have listed us on the Products page of their website!
Thank you to the what3words team for their enthusiasm and support for what we’ve made.
#geography #geosky #map #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
Thank you to the what3words team for their enthusiasm and support for what we’ve made.
#geography #geosky #map #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
August 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Proud moment for Pin the Tale: what3words have listed us on the Products page of their website!
Thank you to the what3words team for their enthusiasm and support for what we’ve made.
#geography #geosky #map #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
Thank you to the what3words team for their enthusiasm and support for what we’ve made.
#geography #geosky #map #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
This is me with the amazing Bridget Hart. We’re running TWO poetry workshops with my story-mapping platform Pin the Tale in October, one in Bristol (2nd) and one online (16th). Join us to explore writing poetry inspired by place and by what3words! www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1345...
July 23, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is me with the amazing Bridget Hart. We’re running TWO poetry workshops with my story-mapping platform Pin the Tale in October, one in Bristol (2nd) and one online (16th). Join us to explore writing poetry inspired by place and by what3words! www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/1345...
Have now run two creative writing workshops with Pin the Tale in Bristol and delighted to say that they were a success! We’re now planning to run more over the next few months. To hear about these when they’re announced, sign up to the mailing list here: mailchi.mp/ab35b137905d...
July 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Have now run two creative writing workshops with Pin the Tale in Bristol and delighted to say that they were a success! We’re now planning to run more over the next few months. To hear about these when they’re announced, sign up to the mailing list here: mailchi.mp/ab35b137905d...
This evening in Stokes Croft! Come along to Cafe Kino and have a go at doing some creative writing using what3words addresses. All welcome, no creative writing experience necessary: hdfst.uk/e132698
July 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
This evening in Stokes Croft! Come along to Cafe Kino and have a go at doing some creative writing using what3words addresses. All welcome, no creative writing experience necessary: hdfst.uk/e132698
Was a real joy to meet and re-connect with so many kindred spirits at #MIX2025 in Bath yesterday, themed around 'Writing with Technologies'. A particular pleasure to present about Pin the Tale in the Navigating Place through Digital Narratives session. Huge thanks to the organisers for a lovely day.
July 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Was a real joy to meet and re-connect with so many kindred spirits at #MIX2025 in Bath yesterday, themed around 'Writing with Technologies'. A particular pleasure to present about Pin the Tale in the Navigating Place through Digital Narratives session. Huge thanks to the organisers for a lovely day.
Wonderful to be part of the #BristolDigitalGameLab concept game jam yesterday, themed around 'Museum of Languages'. Our team devised a 'living languages lab' where you learn how languages have evolved historically, then make up your own new words to help make sense of imagined future scenarios!
June 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Wonderful to be part of the #BristolDigitalGameLab concept game jam yesterday, themed around 'Museum of Languages'. Our team devised a 'living languages lab' where you learn how languages have evolved historically, then make up your own new words to help make sense of imagined future scenarios!
Being part of IMPACT! Indie Games yesterday was wonderful. People who played Pin the Tale at the expo were all lovely; got some fantastic comments, feedback and encouragement. Congrats to Ash, Lyndy and Dan for hosting such a supportive event for the Bristol/SW game dev community.
May 23, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Being part of IMPACT! Indie Games yesterday was wonderful. People who played Pin the Tale at the expo were all lovely; got some fantastic comments, feedback and encouragement. Congrats to Ash, Lyndy and Dan for hosting such a supportive event for the Bristol/SW game dev community.
All set up at the IMPACT! Indie Games expo in Bristol! Excited to see what stories people write on Pin the Tale today!
May 22, 2025 at 9:23 AM
All set up at the IMPACT! Indie Games expo in Bristol! Excited to see what stories people write on Pin the Tale today!
This Thursday! Thrilled that Pin the Tale has been selected for the games expo at IMPACT! this year. Expo area is free to access and will hosting a wonderful range of indie games by local developers. Come along to Strange Brew in Bristol and have a play! Register here: impress.games/impact/2025
May 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This Thursday! Thrilled that Pin the Tale has been selected for the games expo at IMPACT! this year. Expo area is free to access and will hosting a wonderful range of indie games by local developers. Come along to Strange Brew in Bristol and have a play! Register here: impress.games/impact/2025
Happy 25th Birthday Geocaching! The first ever geocache was placed on this day 25 years ago.
I celebrated by spending the day geocaching in the Quantock Hills. With my Pin the Tale badges, I now have something I can actually swap! Today I managed to acquire a tiny yellow duck.
I celebrated by spending the day geocaching in the Quantock Hills. With my Pin the Tale badges, I now have something I can actually swap! Today I managed to acquire a tiny yellow duck.
May 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Happy 25th Birthday Geocaching! The first ever geocache was placed on this day 25 years ago.
I celebrated by spending the day geocaching in the Quantock Hills. With my Pin the Tale badges, I now have something I can actually swap! Today I managed to acquire a tiny yellow duck.
I celebrated by spending the day geocaching in the Quantock Hills. With my Pin the Tale badges, I now have something I can actually swap! Today I managed to acquire a tiny yellow duck.
A quite brilliant geocache I found while out walking in the countryside yesterday. Loosen the cord to lower the bag. Took me longer than I'd like to admit to spot it hanging above me, but made it an even more satisfying find!
April 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
A quite brilliant geocache I found while out walking in the countryside yesterday. Loosen the cord to lower the bag. Took me longer than I'd like to admit to spot it hanging above me, but made it an even more satisfying find!
On reflection, this day summed up exactly what I think is so powerful about location-based gaming: how it can lead people to encounter interesting, exciting and beautiful places they likely wouldn't have visited/known about otherwise.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
On reflection, this day summed up exactly what I think is so powerful about location-based gaming: how it can lead people to encounter interesting, exciting and beautiful places they likely wouldn't have visited/known about otherwise.
This cache was hidden in February 2001. I wasn't even 7 years old when this was first placed! A real piece of geocaching/location-based gaming heritage. And a perfect way to end a day of adventure in this corner of South Wales.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
This cache was hidden in February 2001. I wasn't even 7 years old when this was first placed! A real piece of geocaching/location-based gaming heritage. And a perfect way to end a day of adventure in this corner of South Wales.
Up on the Blorenge, after trying to process the variety of spectacular sights all around, I walked on to the cache location, a spot overlooking the iconic peaks that surround the town of Abergavenny.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Up on the Blorenge, after trying to process the variety of spectacular sights all around, I walked on to the cache location, a spot overlooking the iconic peaks that surround the town of Abergavenny.
For my final cache of the day, I walked several miles further to the Blorenge. Here I had a particularly special cache in my sights: the first geocache ever placed in Wales.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
For my final cache of the day, I walked several miles further to the Blorenge. Here I had a particularly special cache in my sights: the first geocache ever placed in Wales.
After climbing 150m back up the steep ridge, I found a multi-cache that told the history of a Bristol Blenheim Bomber that crashed here in 1940. It led me across nearly 1km of moorland grasses and bogs to a solitary rocky outcrop, where I stood completely alone.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
After climbing 150m back up the steep ridge, I found a multi-cache that told the history of a Bristol Blenheim Bomber that crashed here in 1940. It led me across nearly 1km of moorland grasses and bogs to a solitary rocky outcrop, where I stood completely alone.
The geocache itself felt like one of those that could last forever, perfectly tucked away in its hiding spot, only visited infrequently. In the logbook, there were logs dating back to 2009.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The geocache itself felt like one of those that could last forever, perfectly tucked away in its hiding spot, only visited infrequently. In the logbook, there were logs dating back to 2009.
The stone structure that covers it is likely medieval, but nobody knows for certain. In such an isolated, tranquil location, this place has a real feeling of timeless beauty and peace.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The stone structure that covers it is likely medieval, but nobody knows for certain. In such an isolated, tranquil location, this place has a real feeling of timeless beauty and peace.
Ffynnon Angaeron's history dates back to pre-Christian times. It was a 'pin well', where bent pins and brooches were thrown into the water as offerings for the fulfilment of wishes.
April 22, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Ffynnon Angaeron's history dates back to pre-Christian times. It was a 'pin well', where bent pins and brooches were thrown into the water as offerings for the fulfilment of wishes.