The Guardian's home-grown computer game, Spaceship!, made its first public outing at Brighton's £5 App event on Wednesday. Barry Tucker (coder extraordinaire) and I presented it to the crowd, describing the why, the how and the who. It was quite an event, with Spaceship! posters of many flavours (get yours at Barry's Spaceship! site, along with other Spaceship! goodies!) and people clambering to get their own copies on USB to take home. Check out our slide deck here.

You can play the game by heading here, and so let us know what you think. We'll be continuing work on it for another couple of months in response to comments and transcripts from testers before we release it to indie conferences around the world.

Also at the games-themed evening, where presenters demonstrated games and playthings they made for less than a fiver, I had the opportunity to see the coolest phone app I've ever seen: Lastminute.com Labs' multiplayer sword/lightsaber fighting game, with sound effects, which involves physically swinging and parrying and blocking. Like the Wii, but without the need for the Wiimote. As the boys said, the aim was to create a console game without the console.

PhoneFight was originally developed at July's HackDay, but was demonstrated, with all new graphical effects and sounds, at £5 app. Check it out at github. Only available for the Nokia N95 at the moment, the boys from the Lab hope it will break free soon. As do I.

Once again, congratulations to the Spaceship! team, whose names are listed below:

DennisChow
Phillip Walters
Perrin Ashcroft
Michael Brunton-Spall
Barry Tucker
StatusJones
Bambino Tostare
Bridget Dack
Limni
Cavalcade
Ctmiller
Dave Chapeskie
Edible Visions
CunningStunt
Fantomex
Hambargarz
HiddenAway
MeepMeep
NDG
Tin Robot
Nybble
Weefz
Camax
Alobster
Apocalyspse Cow
AndyHill
Andy Borley
AdamCrowe
ColonelKilgore
CheddarFrenzy
CharlesUllman
Daf
Elsa
Illuminant
Robkun
Rolf
Nick Plain
FearofFours
Jim Pooley
JumbleJumble
Jetamo
Kerry Turner
Machineisbored
The Mighty Jag
Trev ver T
SonofSaito
Mitoto
Salubriousone
Senor Monkfish
The Selfish Giant
UnPremeditated
Yorkiebar
Zoozoobaba
Ed Sludden
Geo Ashton
Aleks' Mum
Our Anonymous Contributors
Emily Short
Graham Nelson
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