I am sat at the studio while around me FourceLabs are putting the final touches to their installation for Stekker Fest. I’ll be there tomorrow to hand out buttons to players. It’s the first in a series of three playful additions to three festivals that I am overseeing – first called project Ebi and now [...]
Last week you might have thought: “Can a weeknote be any shorter?” (in a Chandler voice.) Yes it can. This week was basically about getting a first version of PLAY Pilots out the door. And we did. So go, play, and let me know what you think.
A very low-key, quiet week this was. Partly due to the fact that I took the Monday off (gasp!) And partly due just to the fact that it’s one of those in between periods. Old projects winding down, new ones starting up. One of those new projects I’ve codenamed Ebi. It’s the next step we’re [...]
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, [...]
That’s a nice number, 150. One-hundred-and-fifty. I like the sound of that. So what’s been going on this week? I hopped on a plane last Sunday to the Netherlands for This happened – Utrecht #6. Wouldn’t miss out on my own party, of course. And I’m so glad I didn’t, because we had awesome talks [...]
Tweetakt is happening in Utrecht at the moment. It’s a youth theatre festival, really pushing the limits of what we think that means. As an example, they’ve provided space for several installations at the festival centre on the Neude. I went over for a quick look today – even though I know most of the [...]
Last evening I was on top of the Neudeflat, to review a draft of a presentation I’ve prepared as part of project Tako.1 Earlier that day and monday I talked to the last two participants: Culturele Zondagen (a producer of frequent city-wide cultural events that always take place on sundays) and Habek (a producer of [...]
In a recent post on the Edge blog – which, if you consider yourself a games designer, you absolutely must read – Matt Jones asks: “Why should pocket calculators be put on a pedestal, and not Peggle?” He writes about the need for games to be appreciated and critiqued as design objects. He points out [...]
Over at Non-fiction, Juha writes about a hypothetical game that simulates museum management. He asks: “Could this be an interesting approach to open up museums and learn from our current and future audiences? Could a game be a museum? Could a museum be a game?” I think the simple answer to all these questions is [...]
There’s some movement over at the website for my new venture. I mentioned Hubbub before: it is a design studio I am setting up for physical, social games that are played in public places. We hope to address social issues and the like using these games. Recently… I’ve adjusted the temporary site to fit with [...]
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