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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 to Start — [...]

On Sketching

In Articles on 13 March 2009 tagged interaction design, IxD, lectures, presentations, sketching, slides, user experience, UX, videos, workshops with 1 comment

Catching up with this slightly neglected blog (it’s been 6 weeks since the last proper post). I’d like to start by telling you about a small thing I helped out with last week. Peter Boersma1 asked me to help out with one of his UX Cocktail Hours. He was inspired by a recent IxDA Studio [...]

The Theory and Practice of Urban Game Design

In Articles on 23 January 2009 tagged cities, conceptualisation, DGG, education, game design, HKU, ideation, NLGD, play, seminars, urban games, urbanism, VNA, workshops with 6 comments

A few weeks ago NLGD asked me to help out with an urban games ‘seminar’ that they had commissioned in collaboration with the Dutch Game Garden. A group of around 50 students from two game design courses at the Utrecht School of the Arts1 were asked to design a game for the upcoming Festival of [...]

A Day of Playing Around With Multi-Touch and RoomWare

In Articles on 8 August 2008 tagged CanTouch, embodied, Flickr, interaction design, IxD, Last.fm, multi-touch, open source, RoomWare, tangible, user experience, UX, workshops with 4 comments

Last Saturday I attended a RoomWare workshop. The people of CanTouch were there too, and brought one of their prototype multi-touch tables. The aim for the day was to come up with applications of RoomWare (open source software that can sense presence of people in spaces) and multi-touch. I attended primarily because it was a [...]