Announcing “Kometen” « ErikSvedang.com A game "about exploring space to find art, while at the same time learning how to fly around in a graceful way. There isn’t any scoring system or way to lose, instead it’s all about self improvement and judging your own performance." It features gorgeous water color art, too. Worth giving a [...]
James Rojas: The City as Play « Dr. Pop A short piece on the workshops James Rojas runs to get people's ideas on urban planning issues. He lets them build cities using various colorful objects, many of them found. The results are often stunning. (tags: cities planning urban workshops play creativity building space JamesRojas) Dutchstat [...]
This was the last week of my stay in Copenhagen. Coming Sunday it’s back to the Netherlands. As usual leaving feels bittersweet. There certainly things I’ll miss about being here, not in the least our lovely apartment in one of the city’s nicest neighborhoods. And the many great cafés. But there’s a lot to be [...]
Slave Deck – a mafia world for children – DN.se Some pretty disturbing news from Sweden about youth gangs. (If you like me don't read Swedish, Google does a pretty good job of translating this.) The article posits that the way kids get caught up in these gangs is through abusive games such as 'slave [...]
Vicon Revue: Document your Life Every 30 Seconds – information aesthetics "A wearable digital camera that is designed to take photographs passively, without user intervention, while it is being worn." An idea that has been floating around the labs finally finds it way onto the market. Interesting. (tags: lifelogging data statistics photography blogging logging sensors [...]
Playmakers – Watch the film « Playmakers The film of the Playmakers project, which chronicles the creation of a pervasive game by Alex Fleetwood and Holly Gramazio is now available online. It's really nice to see the design process of a game demystified like this. There are also some nice reflections on pervasive games in [...]
Infovore " Dangerous Mistakes In The Company Of Friends "I don’t play videogames because I want to have competent, professional militaristic encounters with friends. I’d take Dangerous Mistakes In The Company Of Friends over competence any day. Sure, they may be mistakes, but they’re dangerous! They’re exciting! And sometimes, they make the game better than [...]
So, some notes for the past week. They will be very short because there is not much to tell really. It was one of those weeks with a lull in between projects, and also virtually devoid of meetings, today being the exception. I went over to LikeMind to catch up with my fellow Dutchman Mark, [...]
EyeWriter Initiative "The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes." Well-deserved winner of the Prix [...]
Nicholas Zambetti – LiveView for iPhone & iPad This looks incredibly useful. Too bad I didn't have it at my disposal while at Layar. (tags: iphone design prototyping interactiondesign IxD tools)
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