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Week 137

By Kars | Published: April 2, 2012

We’re near­ing anoth­er playtest for Saba so most of our time last week was tak­en up with pro­duc­tion on a new pro­to­type. We drew up an asset list to guide Karel’s work on art. This in turn lead to some tweaks of my sketch­es. Mean­while Hanne put more time into the copy. Erwin wrote up […]

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Week 136

By Kars | Published: March 23, 2012

I’m writ­ing these notes while out­side spring seems to have seri­ous­ly kicked in. It’s nice and sun­ny. Which is per­fect tim­ing, since Twee­t­akt Fes­ti­val has start­ed. Its pavil­ion, adorned with south­ern-euro­­pean style lights, has descend­ed on Neude square. The games I’ve curat­ed are all set in their respec­tive green­hous­es. So I’m look­ing for­ward to seeing […]

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Week 130

By Kars | Published: February 6, 2012

Work last week hap­pened in the few days squeezed between my return from Berlin, where I par­tic­i­pat­ed in the Glob­al Game Jam, and my trip to Dublin, to attend and speak at Interaction12. There was for­ward move­ment on Saba, with Karel mak­ing progress on the art style, and Hanne bang­ing out a play­er sce­nario raising […]

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Pig Chase, a game for pigs and humans

By Kars | Published: December 14, 2011

For a while now, I’ve been part of a research project at the Utrecht School of the Arts, called Play­ing with Pigs. Up till now, I’ve referred to it as project Buta on this blog. We’re research­ing the weird rela­tion­ship humans have with domes­ti­cat­ed pigs. You know, pigs that are farmed for meat. The way […]

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