First of all, if you’re reading this, may 2012 bring peace, happiness and good fortune for you and your loved ones. I have a number of talks both short and long lined up for the first few months of this year. Let me run them down for you: I’ll present a talk titled ‘The Game [...]
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Talks lined up for the start of 2012
Posted in Upcoming Tagged Interaction12, Koppelkiek, LIFT12, Noorderslag, Pig Chase, Social Cities of Tomorrow Comments closed
A look back on 2011
It’s almost time to close shop for the holidays so I thought I’d do a final post. Here’s a month-by-month look back at some of the major things that happened at Hubbub in 2011 with links to relevant posts and such in case you missed it the first time around. January – We start development [...]
Posted in Marginalia Tagged Code 4, Cognitive Cities, Dutch Game Garden, FourceLabs, FutureEverything, Japan, Noordhoff, Pig Chase, playful, The Village, This happened, Tweetakt Comments closed
Hack days as ludic practice
It was at DiGRA that I first heard Eric Zimmerman talk about the idea of this being a ludic age. We’re in the period that follows the information age, which we’ve more or less left behind. In the ludic age, says Zimmerman, “information itself is put at play”.1 What does that mean? It can’t just [...]
Posted in Thoughts Tagged Bernie DeKoven, Code Camping Amsterdam, Eric Zimmerman, games, Hack de Overheid, Hack the Government, hacking, ludic age, open data, play Comments closed
Making physical games at Playgrounds Festival
Over the years, I’ve run a variety of game design workshops, both standalone and as part of larger events.1 They’re typically aimed at creating simple, analog games that can be played inside or on the streets. I enjoy doing workshops because I get to see how others deal with the unique challenges of designing physical [...]
Posted in Projects Tagged conference games, conferences, game design, party games, physical games, street games, urban games, workshops Comments closed
New tables
I’m writing this from behind a new desk. These were designed by my brother Ties. He’d done a pair of desks for BUROPONY before and when I saw his new design for a meeting table I asked him to also make a smaller version that could be used as a desk. The design is reminiscent [...]
A roundup of Code 4 publicity
We’ve been talking about Code 4 at various venues the past few months. So I thought I should collect the results from those events here, in case you’ve missed them the first time around. Code 4 is the large-scale game for organizational game we made for the Dutch Tax Administration in collaboration with Demovides and [...]
Posted in Projects Tagged Code 4, cultural change, organizational change, organizational learning, pervasive games Comments closed
Occupy the future at Playful 2011
After making the many different creative industries out there take games seriously (and subsequently sort of regretting the consequences) Playful was back this year and decided to look towards the future. Ever since I presented there in 2008 this has probably been my favorite event of the year. So I returned after a much-regretted hiatus [...]
Posted in Thoughts Tagged conferences, futures, games, innovation, play, playful, science fiction Comments closed
Things we’re working on (volume 3)
Four months have passed since the previous update on our projects so it’s about time for a new one. Curating a playful exhibition The lovely folk at Storm have asked me to return as curator of the playful-slash-interactive exhibition that will be part of youth theatre festival Tweetakt 2012. I did the one this year, [...]
Week 126
In 2010 I kept weeknotes at Leapfroglog. I did not continue those in 2011, but I feel like taking up the habit again this year. It’s a nice and easy way to keep a log of what’s going on, and I’m kind of sad I don’t have one for the past year, since that’s been [...]