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Games we ran at NU Grounds
On a scorchingly hot Saturday afternoon several agents of Hubbub descended on the Utrecht area of Leidsche Rijn to run a number of physical social games at the NU Grounds festival. We played a mix of games designed by students of the Utrecht School of the Arts and games taken from the excellent Ludocity website. [...]
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Making cultural events more playful
These are sketches from a presentation that I delivered a while back to a room full of organizers of cultural events and creative agencies from Utrecht. This was the culmination of a study commissioned by the city of Utrecht, in which we looked at ways of adding playful elements to the programs of some of [...]
What do you get when you cross a game with an opera?
I’ve just added a write-up to the project section. It’s about Mega Monster Battle Arena; a cross between a game and an opera commissioned by Dario Fo, which we were involved with at the start of last year. I still have fond memories of this project, it was our first foray into theatre, something I’m [...]
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Sketching a paper toy for a conference
At Game in the City 2009 we handed out cards to all participants. Here’s a photo: As you can see, there are nine variants. Each has an illustration of a fox doing, well, something on the front, plus a quote. The quotes all relate to the nature of reality in some way. Part of the [...]
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Read more about the making of Koppelkiek
I’ve just published a write-up of Koppelkiek, a project we ran earlier this year. Koppelkiek is a social photo game designed for the Hoograven area of Utrecht. Players shoot photos of themselves with friends, family or complete strangers and upload them to a website for points. If you’re curious about why and how we made [...]
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Video of our urban game for Change Your World
This is a video showing actual play of the urban game we designed for Change Your World; an event produced by Rotterdam European Youth Capital 2009 which took place on 26 & 27 september. Original footage by CCCP. Music by Klaxons (Atlantis To Interzone) and The Prodigy (Omen). Thumbnail photo by Alper Çuğun. A full [...]
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First project write-up
I’ve just posted a write-up of one of our past projects, one we are quite happy with. For Your World we created an urban game that was played during their Change Your World event. Read all about it over here. For a taste of the event, head to the Your World site. There’s an excellent [...]
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