Project Night Watch
@pnwnet.bsky.social
"Lighting up lives through storymaking"
Be it a game board or a technology product, we are interested in helping society, especially young people, discover and experience stories that connect them to community, wellbeing and opportunity.
Be it a game board or a technology product, we are interested in helping society, especially young people, discover and experience stories that connect them to community, wellbeing and opportunity.
Our Aquila board game returns to Colchester on 29th, 30th, 31st October 2025 based on an interpretation of the rules of a lost game board found opposite Colchester Zoo in 1996. The event happens at Colchester Roman Circus between 11am and 3pm. The event is called Ludi Remus.
October 21, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Our Aquila board game returns to Colchester on 29th, 30th, 31st October 2025 based on an interpretation of the rules of a lost game board found opposite Colchester Zoo in 1996. The event happens at Colchester Roman Circus between 11am and 3pm. The event is called Ludi Remus.
The second house move in three months means a new location in Colchester to the centre of where the entire Roman invasion force of Britain was encamped waiting the arrival of Emperor Claudius. Within a mile of me was four Roman legion Aquila standards of the 2nd, 9th, 14th and 20th Roman legions.
September 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
The second house move in three months means a new location in Colchester to the centre of where the entire Roman invasion force of Britain was encamped waiting the arrival of Emperor Claudius. Within a mile of me was four Roman legion Aquila standards of the 2nd, 9th, 14th and 20th Roman legions.
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August 21, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Investigations into the family of Cunobelin, who played our game of Aquila 2000 years ago, drew us to Mersea Island and a new mystery involving some Romans buried there. Spinning off from this was an interesting find from Roman times: what this is we do not know. Photo by Callum Allsop / ADAS.
July 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Investigations into the family of Cunobelin, who played our game of Aquila 2000 years ago, drew us to Mersea Island and a new mystery involving some Romans buried there. Spinning off from this was an interesting find from Roman times: what this is we do not know. Photo by Callum Allsop / ADAS.
Our game of Aquila comes full circle after 2000 years after Italian students from Essex University gather round to learn and play the game in Colchester Roman Circus. British hostages in Rome adapted the Roman game of Latrunculi into the Aquila version 2000 years ago. Photo by Samantha Rowley.
July 16, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Our game of Aquila comes full circle after 2000 years after Italian students from Essex University gather round to learn and play the game in Colchester Roman Circus. British hostages in Rome adapted the Roman game of Latrunculi into the Aquila version 2000 years ago. Photo by Samantha Rowley.
Signals in Colchester are offering creative digital learning courses in art and technology to children and young people (under age 18) during 2025. Their programme of events either as per attached or via their website at signals.org.uk
July 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Signals in Colchester are offering creative digital learning courses in art and technology to children and young people (under age 18) during 2025. Their programme of events either as per attached or via their website at signals.org.uk
It is an amazing feeling to find something that has been hidden over a thousand years. This is a possible Roman coin found yesterday by me in Oaks Drive Colchester when I was helping with a garden. I will use soaking in distilled water to clean the coin up for identification.
July 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
It is an amazing feeling to find something that has been hidden over a thousand years. This is a possible Roman coin found yesterday by me in Oaks Drive Colchester when I was helping with a garden. I will use soaking in distilled water to clean the coin up for identification.
We were invited to hold an Aquila board game event at the Colchester Roman and Castle Road residents Midsummer Fayre in June 2025. Residents got to play this 2000-year-old Roman game again next to the Colchester Roman wall as they did over a thousand years in the past.
July 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
We were invited to hold an Aquila board game event at the Colchester Roman and Castle Road residents Midsummer Fayre in June 2025. Residents got to play this 2000-year-old Roman game again next to the Colchester Roman wall as they did over a thousand years in the past.
There is something epic about our Aquila game board meeting the original 2000-year-old game board in the Colchester Castle Museum. We have reintroduced a Colchester strategy game played by the Romans to modern Colchester children, literally bringing a game back from the dead. Photo Barbara Butler.
June 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
There is something epic about our Aquila game board meeting the original 2000-year-old game board in the Colchester Castle Museum. We have reintroduced a Colchester strategy game played by the Romans to modern Colchester children, literally bringing a game back from the dead. Photo Barbara Butler.
Would love to export our Aquila strategy game to USA, but the tariff madness has put those plans on hold for the moment.
May 7, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Would love to export our Aquila strategy game to USA, but the tariff madness has put those plans on hold for the moment.
With developing nations dealing with rising numbers of elderly people, they also face a rise in dementia cases. The support for those suffering dementia online and in society is poor, and medical advances to fight dementia is also bad. I recognise my board game Aquila may help fight dementia.
April 16, 2025 at 8:16 AM
With developing nations dealing with rising numbers of elderly people, they also face a rise in dementia cases. The support for those suffering dementia online and in society is poor, and medical advances to fight dementia is also bad. I recognise my board game Aquila may help fight dementia.
We are now ready to design and get leaflets printed to promote Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins Bluesky for a residential and business leaflet distribution in Colchester UK. This is part of a year long campaign to build community around Bluesky in Colchester.
February 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We are now ready to design and get leaflets printed to promote Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins Bluesky for a residential and business leaflet distribution in Colchester UK. This is part of a year long campaign to build community around Bluesky in Colchester.
It is a nice photo of the heron. I have taken hundreds of photos of swans, ducks and other wildlife around the area of the river in Colchester. So many opportunities to get photos in different light there as well.
February 2, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It is a nice photo of the heron. I have taken hundreds of photos of swans, ducks and other wildlife around the area of the river in Colchester. So many opportunities to get photos in different light there as well.
One way I might like to think about Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it: Bluesky is "Central Station" where the user starts; AT Protocol is the railway; the apps built on the AT Protocol are the railway stations; the user account on Bluesky is the railway ticket.
January 31, 2025 at 2:55 PM
One way I might like to think about Bluesky and the AT Protocol that underpins it: Bluesky is "Central Station" where the user starts; AT Protocol is the railway; the apps built on the AT Protocol are the railway stations; the user account on Bluesky is the railway ticket.
It is great to see the activity going on to develop apps on the AT Protocol, Bluesky being the first of these apps with 30 million+ users; the question the developers of the new apps have to ask is how to pull users away from legacy platforms like TikTok and Facebook to their apps? #marketing
January 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
It is great to see the activity going on to develop apps on the AT Protocol, Bluesky being the first of these apps with 30 million+ users; the question the developers of the new apps have to ask is how to pull users away from legacy platforms like TikTok and Facebook to their apps? #marketing
Our friends at Colchester Roman Circus @romancircusuk.bsky.social joins Bluesky. Think Ben-Hur and Roman chariot racing, the only known Roman chariot racing facility found in Britain. Our leaflet promoting Bluesky is going out with a promotion of our Aquila game event at Colchester Roman Circus.
January 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Our friends at Colchester Roman Circus @romancircusuk.bsky.social joins Bluesky. Think Ben-Hur and Roman chariot racing, the only known Roman chariot racing facility found in Britain. Our leaflet promoting Bluesky is going out with a promotion of our Aquila game event at Colchester Roman Circus.
Hi Mishell, I am reminded so much of the message of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Meditations) in what you say, in that we all are given only a small time of life, and it is what we do in that time which is important. Also, ancient song "Seikilos Epitaph.” (attached).
January 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Hi Mishell, I am reminded so much of the message of the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Meditations) in what you say, in that we all are given only a small time of life, and it is what we do in that time which is important. Also, ancient song "Seikilos Epitaph.” (attached).
In the strategy board game Aquila all the counters, Aquila and the smaller Cohorts, move like a castle in chess, forward, back, right and left, in straight lines, any number of spaces, but are not able to jump over any counter.
January 23, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In the strategy board game Aquila all the counters, Aquila and the smaller Cohorts, move like a castle in chess, forward, back, right and left, in straight lines, any number of spaces, but are not able to jump over any counter.
The aim of the strategy game of Aquila is to get the opponent "Aquila" counter in the equivalent of checkmate in chess. The "Aquila" must be trapped on all sides either by the edge of the board or by any counter (including players own counters) on the 4 points of the compass, called "Enclosure".
January 22, 2025 at 9:10 AM
The aim of the strategy game of Aquila is to get the opponent "Aquila" counter in the equivalent of checkmate in chess. The "Aquila" must be trapped on all sides either by the edge of the board or by any counter (including players own counters) on the 4 points of the compass, called "Enclosure".
That is a nice photo. I used to do a lot of photography of nature and of the area where I live. The original of the Aquila strategy game is at this Colchester Castle, a photo I took in winter a few years ago. Snow and frost does things with the light in photos.
January 22, 2025 at 9:03 AM
That is a nice photo. I used to do a lot of photography of nature and of the area where I live. The original of the Aquila strategy game is at this Colchester Castle, a photo I took in winter a few years ago. Snow and frost does things with the light in photos.
The game of Aquila has two types of counter: the smaller are called Cohorts (there were 8 to 12 Cohorts in a Roman legion); the larger counter is the Aquila (the eagle battle standard of a Roman legion). One can imagine two Roman legions on a battlefield fighting for control of the Roman empire.
January 21, 2025 at 8:38 AM
The game of Aquila has two types of counter: the smaller are called Cohorts (there were 8 to 12 Cohorts in a Roman legion); the larger counter is the Aquila (the eagle battle standard of a Roman legion). One can imagine two Roman legions on a battlefield fighting for control of the Roman empire.
Aquila, the name of our strategy game, means "eagle" in latin. The Aquila was a battle standard that a Roman legion took into battle and on their marches, that the legion would protect with their lives. Loss of the Aquila would be a humiliation to both the Roman legion and to the Roman emperor.
January 20, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Aquila, the name of our strategy game, means "eagle" in latin. The Aquila was a battle standard that a Roman legion took into battle and on their marches, that the legion would protect with their lives. Loss of the Aquila would be a humiliation to both the Roman legion and to the Roman emperor.
Our board game Aquila is probably an adaption by the British rulers of the South and East of Britain of a Roman game called "Ludus latrunculorum" that they picked up as hostages in Rome of Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. The addition of the "Aquila" counter is a British innovation.
January 19, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Our board game Aquila is probably an adaption by the British rulers of the South and East of Britain of a Roman game called "Ludus latrunculorum" that they picked up as hostages in Rome of Julius Caesar and Emperor Augustus. The addition of the "Aquila" counter is a British innovation.
Our Aquila strategy game has five simple rules, making it easier than chess, but is addictive to play. Two children who got a game board for Christmas have been playing Aquila every day since then. They plan to create a video playing the game.
January 18, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Our Aquila strategy game has five simple rules, making it easier than chess, but is addictive to play. Two children who got a game board for Christmas have been playing Aquila every day since then. They plan to create a video playing the game.