{"id":1151,"date":"2008-10-14T11:33:34","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T09:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2008-10-16T17:40:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T15:40:57","slug":"how-a-student-game-became-a-wii-and-ds-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2008\/10\/14\/how-a-student-game-became-a-wii-and-ds-title\/","title":{"rendered":"How a student game became a Wii and DS title"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time to start revealing the speakers for This happened \u2013 Utrecht #1<\/a>. First up is Fabian Akker<\/a>, co-founder of the independent studio Ronimo Games<\/a>. The studio was funded with money Fabian and his colleagues earned by selling the concept behind one of their games to THQ<\/a>.1<\/a><\/sup> The game is called De Blob<\/em>, and the new version is now available on the Nintendo Wii and DS.2<\/a><\/sup> As part of a 3rd year assignment at the Utrecht School of the Arts<\/a>\u2019 Game Design and Development course, De Blob<\/em> was created for the municipality of Utrecht. The aim was to allow people to explore the city\u2019s future station area, which is under heavy reconstruction. You could therefore call De Blob<\/em> a serious game – a game that is not only fun but also useful. It is not often that a serious game makes the transition to a title aimed purely at entertainment. It is more often the case that an entertainment concept gets injected with some \u2018serious\u2019 content, with usually disappointing results. At This happened \u2013 Utrecht #1<\/a> Fabian, who was the original game\u2019s lead designer, will share the story of how it came to be.<\/p>\n\"Screenshot\n

I announced<\/a> This happened \u2013 Utrecht #1 last week. The event takes place on Monday 3 October at 20:30. Registration will open next Monday (20 October) — space is limited so mark your calendars!<\/p>\n

Curious about the rest of the line-up? Tomorrow, Ianus<\/a> will announce our second speaker. Update:<\/strong> go read what Ianus has to say about Philine of Supernana<\/a>.<\/ins><\/p>

  1. THQ is a large publisher of games, such as Saints Row<\/a> and Age of Empires<\/a>. [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li>
  2. The game was redeveloped by an outside studio. [↩<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    It\u2019s time to start revealing the speakers for This happened \u2013 Utrecht #1. First up is Fabian Akker, co-founder of the independent studio Ronimo Games. The studio was funded with money Fabian and his colleagues earned by selling the concept behind one of their games to THQ.1 The game is called De Blob, and the … Continue reading How a student game became a Wii and DS title<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[625],"tags":[675,15,267,367,11,10,130,676,673,614],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-de-blob","tag-events","tag-game-design","tag-gd","tag-interaction-design","tag-ixd","tag-netherlands","tag-ronimo-games","tag-this-happened","tag-utrecht"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}