We’ve hit upon a bug, and it’s a showstopper. Somewhere in the country, at the offices of a large governmental organisation, 48 individuals are playing the pilot of Project Maguro, which I last wrote about two months ago. The players are trading goods on our game’s website, and somehow they’ve fulfilled all of today’s orders. [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
From the trenches of project Maguro, part 2
Posted in Projects Tagged applied games, behind the scenes, Code 4, Maguro, making of, pervasive games, process, work Comments closed
Kars speaking at several upcoming events
I have a number of speaking engagements lined up for the near future so I thought I’d fire off a quick post before the weekend to point them out to you. First up is Mediamatic’s Mob Fest on Wednesday 23 March in Amsterdam (that’s next week). I’ll talk about making pervasive urban games that are [...]
Posted in Upcoming Tagged FutureEverything, lectures, Mob Fest, PechaKucha Night Amsterdam, presentations, speaking Comments closed
Come over and play at Tweetakt
From my window I can see guys building the Tweetakt pavilion on the Neude square. They’ve started today. Next week, the festival starts. And I’m a little excited because this year I was asked by Tweetakt to curate the interactive exhibition that will be on display at the pavilion. Tweetakt is a festival for performing [...]
Posted in Upcoming Tagged events, festivals, installations, interaction design, performance, theatre, This happened, This happened – Utrecht, Tweetakt, Utrecht Comments closed
Human desire in the cognitive city
As I write this I am on a train to Utrecht, the last leg of my journey home from Berlin. I was there for Cognitive Cities, a conference on urban computing, data visualization and related subjects. It’s been a hell of a weekend – a few minor flaws aside, the conference was great and I [...]
Posted in Thoughts Tagged cities, Cognitive Cities, conferences, urban computing, urbanism Comments closed
Traveling through time in games
Chief agent Kars here. It’s a pleasure for me to introduce you to our new intern Arjen. Like his two predecessors he’s studying Design for Virtual Theatre and Games at the Utrecht School of the Arts. He’ll be with us for the coming months to assist on various projects (such as Maguro and Buta). In [...]
Slides and notes for ‘Fevered’ at Mob Fest: Thinking Mobile
After speaking at an Ignite a while ago I returned to Mediamatic’s wonderful Arcade exhibition last week. I was asked to present at the first evening of Mob Fest, a 3-day mini festival on mobile games in the broadest sense of the word. Below are my slides and notes for the talk. The evening was [...]