Week 265

Kars spent last week in between two major events hav­ing just fin­ished Cam­parc he pre­pared some play­ful work­shops to run at the open­ing of Vecht­club XL, our Utrecht base of oper­a­tions. One of these was an iter­a­tion on our Play­ing with Rules work­shop but made acces­si­ble for a larg­er audi­ence. Think Parcheesi meets Nom­ic.

We caught up with a lot of the peo­ple we had been talk­ing or work­ing with includ­ing Mon­nik, Rezone, Game Oven, Third Wave, Bruns Niks and Bits of Free­dom.

I made a show­ing at Cre­ative Morn­ings Berlin and an event at the Berlin Lit­er­a­ture Fes­ti­val about games. Most enjoy­able though was orga­niz­ing and host­ing our irreg­u­lar get togeth­er with Berlin Game Design­ers apt­ly titled “Game Design­ers Anony­mous”.

Stand­ing is in its final tweaks mov­ing towards com­ple­tion.

My for­ay into esports and live stream­ing is also cre­at­ing tan­gi­ble results. Mon­day after some exten­sive recod­ing ses­sions I post­ed a com­men­tary video of myself play­ing DOTA2. It was enjoy­able to make and I hope to watch as well. Expect more stuff to come out of this.