So, some notes for the past week. They will be very short because there is not much to tell really. It was one of those weeks with a lull in between projects, and also virtually devoid of meetings, today being the exception. <\/p>\n
I went over to LikeMind<\/a> to catch up with my fellow Dutchman Mark<\/a>, who seems to be doing great, living and working between Copenhagen and London. Not the shabbiest pair of cities. <\/p>\n I also had another chat with the guys running the U-Turm<\/a> project who seem to be making nice progress with the image tracking side of things and are now really getting into the game design. Which means, as I told them, they need to start iterating on the rules like crazy, doing paper prototype after paper prototype.<\/p>\n Aside from this I’ve been doing some preparations for PLAY, reaching out to creative teams and individuals who I’d like to see be part of the productions we’re going to be running. Getting lots of positive responses so that is great. I also posted some background<\/a> on the work we’ve been doing so far for this at the Hubbub blog.<\/p>\n Julius<\/a> and Karel<\/a> ran a successful second urban games workshop in Leidsche Rijn for Cultuur19 last saturday. We are now gearing up to assist with NU Grounds, a games festival in the same neighborhood where there will be several urban games on offer. That’s going to take place two weeks form now and should be good fun.<\/p>\n The relative quiet this week has allowed me some time to tinker with Processing<\/a>, particularly the Box2D library that Mr. Shiffman has put together<\/a>. I’m just making a little silly software toy with that to kind of flex my flimsy programming skills. Nothing special but I might post some screenshots and maybe a screencast later anyway.<\/p>\n And also, I bit the bullet, installed XCode, and had a go at OpenFrameworks<\/a>, mostly to have a look at some of the Box2D stuff out there that is controlled with OpenCV<\/a> (a computer vision library). That seems to be a really nice basis for gaming in public space using urban projections and such. I don’t see myself working in OpenFrameworks though, it really is an increase in complexity as opposed to Processing. Still, by messing with it, I can now appreciate it better.<\/p>\n Next week is going to be my last one here in Copenhagen and looks like it’ll be slightly more busy, with another trip to Malm\u00f6 and a lecture at CIID<\/a>. After that it’s back to NL. Time really flies.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So, some notes for the past week. They will be very short because there is not much to tell really. It was one of those weeks with a lull in between projects, and also virtually devoid of meetings, today being the exception. I went over to LikeMind to catch up with my fellow Dutchman Mark, … Continue reading Week 151<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[745],"tags":[792,791,774,809,811,810,796,168,461],"class_list":["post-1746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weeknotes","tag-ciid","tag-cultuur19","tag-leidsche-rijn","tag-likemind","tag-nu-grounds","tag-openframeworks","tag-u-turm","tag-play","tag-processing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746","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=1746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1747,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746\/revisions\/1747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}