{"id":1653,"date":"2010-02-03T10:24:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2010-02-03T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:24:54","slug":"week-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/03\/week-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 136"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a train to Amsterdam again, extra early so that I am on time for the second day of a workshop we&#8217;re running at <a href=\"http:\/\/layar.com\/\">Layar<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_1_1653\" id=\"identifier_1_1653\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Getting to a train on time is not without its hazards these days, snow and ice make biking to the station extra interesting.\">1<\/a><\/sup> It&#8217;s being facilitated by <a href=\"http:\/\/berglondon.com\/\">BERG<\/a>&#8216;s Schulze and Jones, which is a real treat. Without giving too much away: we&#8217;re working on new product concepts. Can&#8217;t wait to see what results from this session, since it looks like I might be developing them further in the months to come.<\/p>\n<p>I was doing some work this weekend, mostly planning the upcoming months since there&#8217;s so much interesting stuff on the horizon. I also popped over to Hilversum for a look at the games created during <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgamejam.nl\/\">the local Global Game Jam<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_2_1653\" id=\"identifier_2_1653\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"GGJ NL is organized by my friends at the Dutch Game Garden.\">2<\/a><\/sup> Some 170 people participated and I think around 40 games were created. The general quality was quite high. Some of my favorites included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgamejam.org\/2010\/so-it-floats\">So It Floats<\/a>, which features gorgeous watercolor art and a biblical theme. You&#8217;re a monkey trying to get Adam and Eve to leave paradise. The gameplay resembles [\u2026]()&#8217;s games.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgamejam.org\/2010\/sssssos\">SSSSSOS<\/a>, where you control a tiny space ship trying to survive a massive battle between two armies consisting of swarming space ships. You can get them to engage each other in stead of you by attracting and repelling them. It&#8217;s all driven by nicely tuned Newtonian physics and is accompanied by adaptive music.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgamejam.org\/2010\/resonance\">Resonance<\/a>, which was strikingly well-rounded for a 48-hour game. I&#8217;m not a huge fan of puzzle games, but this had a good learning curve spread across 14 levels. The musical theme was a nice touch too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgamejam.org\/2010\/save-your-souls\">Save Your Souls<\/a>, a frustrating experimental game you control with two mice, each tied to one character running down a track. From playing I&#8217;ve decided bimanual input devices are not for me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgamejam.org\/2010\/what-faql-0\">What The Faql?<\/a>, which I liked for its interesting social mechanic. Four players collaborate to get a cart from one end of a mine to the other, but one of them is a &#8216;mole&#8217; whose goal is to sabotage the whole operation. This player gets a small jolt of force feedback from his controller at the game&#8217;s start.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All the games created in NL and across the world can be found at the international Global Game Jam website. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globalgamejam.org\/\">Have a look<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the conversations with project Tako participants are now finished. I had one more this monday, with the people who organize the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.liszt.nl\/\">International Franz Liszt Piano Competition<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"#footnote_3_1653\" id=\"identifier_3_1653\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Where, incidentally, I finally learned the meaning of Lisztomania.\">3<\/a><\/sup> Not much else will be done this week, but I&#8217;ll need to start processing all the notes in the coming period.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the <a href=\"http:\/\/emma.hku.nl\/\">EMMA<\/a> group projects have finished the next phase for graduate students at <a href=\"http:\/\/kmt.hku.nl\/\">KMT<\/a> has started. They have four weeks to develop their graduation project proposals, which includes a research component. This phase was kicked off with a symposium on monday about creative processes in multidisciplinary teams. On friday, I&#8217;ll meet with the group of students I&#8217;m coaching (together with <a href=\"http:\/\/irenevanpeerontwerpen.nl\/\">Irene van Peer<\/a>) and review their plans for a short field study, which they&#8217;ll need to complete the next week. The results from this will feed into their final proposals. Can&#8217;t wait to see what they come up with.<\/p><ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_1653\" class=\"footnote\">Getting to a train on time is not without its hazards these days, snow and ice make biking to the station extra interesting.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_1_1653\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_2_1653\" class=\"footnote\">GGJ NL is organized by my friends at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dutchgamegarden.nl\/\">Dutch Game Garden<\/a>.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_2_1653\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><li id=\"footnote_3_1653\" class=\"footnote\">Where, incidentally, I finally learned the meaning of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Phoenix#Background\">Lisztomania<\/a>.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\"> [<a href=\"#identifier_3_1653\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a train to Amsterdam again, extra early so that I am on time for the second day of a workshop we&#8217;re running at Layar.1 It&#8217;s being facilitated by BERG&#8216;s Schulze and Jones, which is a real treat. Without giving too much away: we&#8217;re working on new product concepts. Can&#8217;t wait to see what results &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/03\/week-136\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Week 136<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[745],"tags":[762,696,761,765,763,764,42,759,746],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeknotes","tag-berg","tag-dgg","tag-dutch-game-garden","tag-emma","tag-ggj10","tag-ggjnl","tag-hku","tag-layar","tag-tako"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","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=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}