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Public Game Installations & Player Engagement

By Kars | Published: August 16, 2012

A few weeks ago I had the plea­sure of speak­ing at Dutch E‑Culture Days in Helsin­ki. An event orga­nized by Virtueel Plat­form, it took place at the World Design Cap­i­tal Pavil­ion and last­ed two days. On the first, sev­er­al Dutch trans­me­dia projects were pre­sent­ed. My favorite was film­mak­er Floris Kaayk’s Human Bird­wings project, an elab­o­rate […]

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Week 156

By Kars | Published: August 14, 2012

I’m writ­ing this on a train back from Berlin after a won­der­ful few days mak­ing games with Alper and play­ing games at Play­pub­lik. Last week start­ed with some work with Tim on Cer­e­mo­ny of Sur­prise. We’ll be run­ning the game at Hide & Seek’s Week­ender. I’m huge­ly excit­ed about this. We’re tun­ing the game a […]

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Week 155

By Kars | Published: August 7, 2012

We’re get­ting into the rhythm of things with Buta. Last week we had our first prop­er standup meet­ing. Although it’s hard to tell if there was any actu­al stand­ing up. The team’s dis­trib­uted, so we chat­ted over Skype. Any­way, these should now hap­pen each week on Mon­day and will help us get to a playable […]

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Week 154

By Kars | Published: July 30, 2012

Not much to report this week. So this is a short one. Most notably I worked on SAKE some more. I have been col­lect­ing things relat­ed to col­lab­o­ra­tive sto­ry­telling on Tum­blr. I talked about what we’re try­ing to achieve both with Tim and with Karel and got some use­ful ideas from both. Then, I sat […]

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Week 153

By Kars | Published: July 24, 2012

The not-much-gets-done-due to-sum­mer trend con­tin­ued last week. I spent some time prepar­ing for my talk on PLAY Pilots in Helsin­ki. This includ­ed a trawl of the pro­jec­t’s blog archives. I was remind­ed of the won­der­ful work done by the stu­dios that par­tic­i­pat­ed as well as the Hub­bub team that worked on the web­site. The whole […]

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Kars speaking at several upcoming events

By Kars | Published: July 20, 2012

There’s a num­ber of upcom­ing events in the Nether­lands and abroad that I’ll be speak­ing at. Here’s a quick run­down. The first one is short notice: this week­end I will be in Helsin­ki for Virtueel Plat­for­m’s Dutch E‑culture Days at the World Design Cap­i­tal Pavil­ion. I will be talk­ing about PLAY Pilots, and specif­i­cal­ly the […]

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Week 152

By Kars | Published: July 17, 2012

Let’s see what hap­pened last week shall we? I know I’ve been say­ing that we’re close to fin­ish­ing Beesten­bende for a while now. But we’re close. Hon­est. Me and Alper did some dot­ting of Is and cross­ing of Ts. We now have an actu­al release client. On Tues­day I had lunch with the Niels ‘t […]

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Week 151

By Kars | Published: July 9, 2012

I guess this was one of those weeks that is typ­i­cal of work dur­ing sum­mer. Which is to say: we made some attempts at tying up loose ends on run­ning projects and put some effort into start­ing up new ones but oth­er than that not much of any­thing got done. I met up again with […]

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Week 150

By Kars | Published: July 2, 2012

Last week was a short week as I took a day off on Mon­day. I’m try­ing to see if I can do that every oth­er week, at least dur­ing the sum­mer months. The assump­tion is that a lit­tle less time spent in the stu­dio and in stead spent out­side improves both my work­ing and my […]

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Week 149

By Kars | Published: June 26, 2012

I had the absolute lux­u­ry of doing a lot of sus­tained work on Saba this week. We’re near­ing the dead­line for deliv­ery of a release can­di­date and are more or less on sched­ule. On mon­day I was joined by Alper who had come over from Berlin to do his part for anoth­er Hack the Gov­ern­ment […]

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