I crossed the \u00d8resund on tuesday evening to attend the Nordic Game Indie Night<\/a>, which was organized by the Copenhagen Game Collective<\/a> (whose Darkroom Sex Game<\/a> I’ve blogged about here before). There were six games on display, all from Scandinavian creators. There was free beer. And there were a few talks, of vastly differing depth and entertainment value. The setup was nice though: the games’ creators talked about each others work. The only problem was that many weren’t very articulate, and shied away from actually criticizing games. Some, though, like the guys from D-Pad Studio<\/a>, really took the time to analyze a game on different levels. Others, like Cactus, seemed more interested in drinking beer. However, Cactus’s game Tuning<\/a> was my favorite of the bunch, for its sheer mind-fuck awesomeness.<\/p>\n Apart from this, I’ve continued work on Layar<\/a>, had another round of mentoring chats with my students and made some more preparations for This happened \u2013 Utrecht #6<\/a>. We opened registration for the latter on monday, by the way, and were fully booked in 58 seconds (and had some server wonkiness<\/a> in the process). Crazy, crazy stuff.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, the first full week of working in Copenhagen is behind me. I’ve mostly been working from our apartment in N\u00f8rrebro. Which is fine for now but I am looking forward to getting out more, and maybe doing some coworking here and there. Wouldn’t want to turn into a real hermit here. Let me have … Continue reading Week 148<\/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":[800,799,801,42,759,798,797,715,802],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeknotes","tag-cactus","tag-copenhagen-game-collective","tag-d-pad-studio","tag-hku","tag-layar","tag-nordic-game-indie-night-2010","tag-social-square","tag-this-happened--utrecht","tag-tuning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1730,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Nordic](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3363\/4565827630_012b2a4328.jpg?resize=500%2C375\")
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