Posts Tagged ‘prototyping’

This Pervasive Games Workshop I Ran at This Conference

In Articles on 10 July 2009 tagged conferences, FoG09, game design, NLGD Festival of Games 2009, pervasive games, physical, play, playtesting, prototyping, social, tinkering, workshops with 2 comments

A few things I got people to do at this year’s NLGD Festival of Games: Fight each other with paper swords… …and run around with lunch-boxes on their heads.1 This was all part of a workshop I ran, titled ‘Playful Tinkering’. The mysterious Mink ette — who amongst many things is a designer at Six [...]

The Making of a Travel-Time Map of the Netherlands

In Articles on 15 August 2008 tagged cars, coding, dataviz, maps, Netherlands, processing, prototyping, public transport, sketching, travel time with 18 comments

Subscribers to my Flickr stream have probably noticed a number of images of some kind of map flowing past lately. They were the result of me tracking my progress on a pet project. I have more or less finished work on it this week, so I thought I’d detail what I did over here. Background [...]

Pollinator — A Casual Game Prototype Made With Mobile Processing

In Articles on 7 November 2007 tagged bees, casual, coding, design, flowers, game design, games, grass, honey, making, mobile, nectar, play, pollen, processing, programming, prototyping, seeds, short-session, sketching, thinking with 15 comments

Last sunday I sat down and coded a prototype of a casual game in Mobile Processing. I got the idea for it the evening before: You’re a bee who needs to collect as much honey as possible in his hive while at the same time keeping a flower-bed blooming by pollinating… Play it and let [...]