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Games we ran at NU Grounds

By Kars | Published: July 9, 2010

On a scorch­ing­ly hot Sat­ur­day after­noon sev­er­al agents of Hub­bub descend­ed on the Utrecht area of Lei­d­sche Rijn to run a num­ber of phys­i­cal social games at the NU Grounds fes­ti­val. We played a mix of games designed by stu­dents of the Utrecht School of the Arts and games tak­en from the excel­lent Ludoc­i­ty web­site. […]

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Making cultural events more playful

By Kars | Published: May 18, 2010

These are sketch­es from a pre­sen­ta­tion that I deliv­ered a while back to a room full of orga­niz­ers of cul­tur­al events and cre­ative agen­cies from Utrecht. This was the cul­mi­na­tion of a study com­mis­sioned by the city of Utrecht, in which we looked at ways of adding play­ful ele­ments to the pro­grams of some of […]

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What do you get when you cross a game with an opera?

By Kars | Published: March 9, 2010

I’ve just added a write-up to the project sec­tion. It’s about Mega Mon­ster Bat­tle Are­na; a cross between a game and an opera com­mis­sioned by Dario Fo, which we were involved with at the start of last year. I still have fond mem­o­ries of this project, it was our first for­ay into the­atre, some­thing I’m […]

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Sketching a paper toy for a conference

By Kars | Published: December 21, 2009

At Game in the City 2009 we hand­ed out cards to all par­tic­i­pants. Here’s a pho­to: As you can see, there are nine vari­ants. Each has an illus­tra­tion of a fox doing, well, some­thing on the front, plus a quote. The quotes all relate to the nature of real­i­ty in some way. Part of the […]

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Read more about the making of Koppelkiek

By Kars | Published: December 11, 2009

I’ve just pub­lished a write-up of Kop­pelkiek, a project we ran ear­li­er this year. Kop­pelkiek is a social pho­to game designed for the Hoograven area of Utrecht. Play­ers shoot pho­tos of them­selves with friends, fam­i­ly or com­plete strangers and upload them to a web­site for points. If you’re curi­ous about why and how we made […]

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Video of our urban game for Change Your World

By Kars | Published: November 25, 2009

This is a video show­ing actu­al play of the urban game we designed for Change Your World; an event pro­duced by Rot­ter­dam Euro­pean Youth Cap­i­tal 2009 which took place on 26 & 27 sep­tem­ber. Orig­i­nal footage by CCCP. Music by Klax­ons (Atlantis To Inter­zone) and The Prodi­gy (Omen). Thumb­nail pho­to by Alper ÇuÄŸun. A full […]

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First project write-up

By Kars | Published: October 25, 2009

I’ve just post­ed a write-up of one of our past projects, one we are quite hap­py with. For Your World we cre­at­ed an urban game that was played dur­ing their Change Your World event. Read all about it over here. For a taste of the event, head to the Your World site. There’s an excel­lent […]

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