For a while now, I’ve been part of a research project at the Utrecht School of the Arts, called Playing with Pigs. Up till now, I’ve referred to it as project Buta on this blog. We’re researching the weird relationship humans have with domesticated pigs. You know, pigs that are farmed for meat. The way [...]
Category Archives: Projects
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
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
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, [...]
From the trenches of project Maguro, part 3
Project Maguro is finished and on this Monday, we’re doing a quick evaluation. Entering the war room provides us with an interesting sensation. It’s as if we can still smell the gun powder. Hear explosions faintly, in the distance – but only when listening intently. Sitting down, it feels like we’re expected to start crunching [...]
Posted in Projects Tagged applied games, Code 4, Maguro, making of, pervasive games, process, work Comments closed
Things we’re working on (volume 2)
It’s been over half a year since I last talked about the projects we have on deck. I thought I’d do a quick post to give you a sense of what’s going on. We’re in the process of wrapping up Maguro. The game – titled Code 4 – is finished and has seen several successful [...]
Posted in Projects Tagged Buta, CDPI, Chi Sparks, Code 4, Creative Design for Playful Impact, DiGRA, HKU, Iruka, Maguro, Saba, science, Think Design Play, Utrecht School of the Arts Comments closed
Looking back on playful Tweetakt 2011
I’ve just uploaded a set of photos taken at the opening of the playful Tweetakt 2011 exhibition. As you may recall, I was asked to curate an interactive addition to this youth theatre festival. The works I selected are in my opinion all wonderful examples of the way play can lead to performance. Each was [...]
Posted in Projects Tagged art, events, exhibitions, festivals, games, installations, interaction design, performance, play, theatre, This happened, This happened – Utrecht, Tweetakt Comments closed
Two new projects in the portfolio
I’ve added two projects to our portfolio recently. I thought I’d post a quick note to point them out to you. Learning Lab The first one is Learning Lab, a design research project we ran in the last few months of 2010. It was commissioned by an experimental educational program for VU and UvA students [...]
From the trenches of project Maguro, part 2
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. [...]
Posted in Projects Tagged applied games, behind the scenes, Code 4, Maguro, making of, pervasive games, process, work Comments closed
Time travel tricks and troubles
It’s been some time since I finished my internship at Hubbub, and I had a great and instructive time with the various projects I worked on. On the last day of my internship, we concluded my personal project, Katsuo, with a fruitful playtest. Though my time as an intern at Hubbub is over, Katsuo holds [...]