Today the program for the 2012 edition of Tweetakt Festival has gone live. I just wanted to draw your attention to the great games I selected to be put on display at the main festival pavilion: Fingle by Game Oven; like Twister for your fingers with a Barry White feel. Hokra by Ramiro Corbetta; two-versus-two [...]
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Talks lined up for the start of 2012
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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Catch us at NPOX, PICNIC or Playgrounds
I’ll be involved with a few more interesting events, so here’s a quick rundown. I’ll be participating in a panel on gamification at NPOX, the annual conference for creatives of the Dutch public broadcasting services. I’ll talk about PLAY Pilots, and offer my perspective on a case submitted by the audience. At PICNIC, I’ll contribute [...]
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Speaking about Code 4 at Think Design Play, the DiGRA conference
This year the DiGRA conference will take place 14-17 september in Hilversum, the Netherlands. My alma mater, the Utrecht School of the Arts, is hosting. We couldn’t resist submitting a practice paper on Code 4, the game we made for the Dutch Tax Administration.1 It got accepted, so I’m speaking. The program is packed with [...]
Posted in Upcoming Tagged applied games, Code 4, DiGRA, game studies, games research, Maguro, organizational change, pervasive games, serious games, Think Design Play Comments closed
Speaking at CoCities Salon Amsterdam
Cognitive Cities certainly has been the most stimulating conference of 2011 for me so far. (Despite the few shortcomings I reported on earlier.) So I am super glad it is getting follow-up in the form of a salon in Amsterdam. Tomorrow. And I will be speaking. So, Thursday June 30 in TrouwAmsterdam’s Verdieping: Cognitive Cities [...]
Speaking at dConstruct 2011
I am really pleased to be speaking at dConstruct this year. I’ve attended the conference myself several times and always enjoy the well-curated program and the good things offered by the event’s home, lovely Brighton. You’ll find the abstract I submitted below. Have a look at the conference site for the rest of the program [...]
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Talking about Code 4 at Chi Sparks
Our longtime collaborator Alper Çuğun will be at Chi Nederland’s bi-annual conference to talk about Code 4 (formerly referred to as Maguro). Code 4 is a pervasive game we created for the Dutch Tax Administration with the aim of igniting organizational change. Chi Sparks is a conference that focusses on “the very important contributions that [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Play some of our fave games at Tweetakt
I’ve blogged about Tweetakt before but now that construction of the festival pavilion is happening outside our studio windows I feel I should post a reminder. So this Friday, Tweetakt Festival opens. I’ve selected a number of games that will be playable for free at the pavilion for the full 10 days of the festival. [...]