Week 299

Last week I was in the Nether­lands to par­tic­i­pate in a pitch meet­ing in Tilburg. The rest of the week I worked at the Utrecht stu­dio in Kars’s absence, took some meet­ings and coin­ci­den­tal­ly caught up with a bunch of friends. I went over to SodaPro­duc­ties to talk over a bit of inven­tion we will be doing for them soon. Pic­tured below is their view on our stu­dio.

The rest of the time I was busy pick­ing up project man­age­ment for SHACHI’s final beta sprint after which we should have a ful­ly func­tion­al though not yet fin­ished prod­uct.

My talk at Repub­li­ca has been record­ed at Voicere­pub­lic so it’s nice to be able to lis­ten to that again.

Before I flew back to Berlin on Fri­day evening I pre­pared every­thing for the launch of Bycatch the next day in Brook­lyn. Sub­alekha went on stage dur­ing TWO5SIX and talked about the game and the think­ing behind it. Now that we have final­ly launched, we’re busy keep­ing track the ongo­ing cov­er­age and orders that are com­ing in.

Sub­alekha Udayasankar presents Bycatch — her game about drones, sus­pects, & war­fare. #two5six pic.twitter.com/DccibK9M51

— Ash­ley Alicea (@avashly) May 16, 2015

Bycatch, a table­top game on drones, asks play­ers to use their phones to sneak­i­ly sur­veil oth­er play­ers #two5six pic.twitter.com/CmAe3RPyvb

— Games for Change (@G4C) May 16, 2015

On cov­er­age: the press release is online and Bright was one of the first to cov­er the launch last Fri­day. More to fol­low.