Last week was mostly us quietly working away on our current projects, with some extracuricular activities in between. Here’s what happened: Victory Boogie Woogie (SAKE) We shipped some new features to Victory Boogie Woogie, most notably a swanky preview mode for players and writers and limited markup capabilities for the latter. Not exactly rocket science but […]
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Week 194
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Tagged Control Gamelab, Kaigara, KANT, Marshall McLuhan, Ripple Effect, Sake, Understanding Media, Victory Boogie Woogie
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Week 193
Last week while I was still in Paris (like Kars mentioned in the previous week’s notes) we launched the pilot for Ripple Effect. That was a moment where we saw the work of the past period come to fruition and exposed real players worldwide to the game. The game has held up very nicely but […]
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Tagged Beestenbende, card game, Grit, Knutepunkt, La Cantine, Le Havre, lightning talk, Paris, Ripple Effect, UIKonf, Victory Boogie Woogie, Zach Gage
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Week 192
Last week was the last week we had to finish the Ripple Effect pilot. As I write this, the game’s been running for little over a day and has just under two weeks left before ending. So we managed to get it out the door. The process consisted of an accelerated playthrough with the team […]
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Tagged a maze, CHI, gamification, Kaigara, Local Multiplayer Picnic, Paris, Ripple Effect, Samurai Gunn, shipping, workshops
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Week 191
Last week was the penultimate production week for KAIGARA during which I was present at the Utrecht studio for three days for the very essential facetime that cannot be replaced by Apple’s FaceTime even though it does come close. Tuesday was a full day of work with the entire team at the Hubbub studio helmed by […]
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Tagged Beestenbende, board games, De Gids, El Grande, FaceTime, Joris Dormans, Kaigara, Knutepunkt, LARP, movie, Nordic LARP, planning, play test, population, Recess!, Studio Papaver, urbanism, Victory Boogie Woogie
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Week 190
Having launched Victory Boogie Woogie just before the weekend it’s only natural we had to do a few quick fixes on Monday, the first proper day of the game. I sat down with Niels to review his narrative design for KAIGARA. He’s doing a great job of adding “just enough” theme to what is otherwise shaping […]
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Tagged Furappa, Graham Harman, Hide&Seek, Kaigara, Ripple Effect, Sake, Shell, Tiny Games, Victory Boogie Woogie
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Week 189
Last week we were busy launching (your daily) Victory Boogie Woogie. Frenetic writing has already commenced over there. You can join in it, if you write Dutch or you can start reading the first week’s results. In honor of Victory Boogie Woogie’s launch @jamesbridle wrote a lovely piece about literature and play: bit.ly/XZNfST (in Dutch)— Hubbub […]
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Week 188
Belated weeknotes! I blame the long Easter weekend, and the switch to daylight saving time. Let’s keep it short shall we? Alper spent most of the week hacking away at KAIGARA, which is shaping up nicely. He also put some finishing touches on SAKE, which is going to kick off next week! Sign up for that […]
Week 195
Last week we were busy evaluating KAIGARA post-pilot information and sketching out a course to develop the final game. We received tons of player input, client input and we came up with a bunch of ideas of our own to improve the game. We’re right now busy agreeing on a coherent plan from that set […]