We are mostly working on AJI right now with lots of proposals and smaller engagements running in between. We are preparing a ton of things for the coming six months varying from new projects, to publications, exhibitions, presentations and teaching engagements around the world. Besides all of that we have also been enjoying the unexpectedly […]
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Week 237
On Monday I got several visits from friends, family and colleagues, all curious about my new workspace. It was enjoyable—we even played some Animal Upon Animal with Eelco’s kids—but not conducive to much productivity. I mainly did financial and administrative tasks. Alper, meanwhile, returned from a much-deserved long weekend relaxing (and drinking coffee) in Oslo. He […]
Week 236
Last week was another week working full throttle on AJI which has now been given an official name and domain (to be announced shortly). We setup a scrum list for the week and started working through that and we think that with the current velocity we should be able to show stuff in 1–2 sprints. […]
Week 235
On Monday I set up my things in the new studio at Vechtclub XL. They had been kept in holding since the move out of Dutch Game Garden two weeks ago. With some help from the kind folk running the space I was up and running around midday. After a short period of working from […]
Week 234
Last week I spent all my time working on the iOS app and website for our project AJI. Development has been excruciatingly slow because we never had a free week to just work on the project. The simplicity of the app we want to make is deceiving even for us. The law of conservation of […]
The Gameful City, a preview of my chapter for The Gameful World
This year, MIT Press will publish The Gameful World, a book edited by Steffen P. Walz and Sebastian Deterding to which I’ve contributed a chapter. The book will cover approaches in gameful and playful design, how it can be applied to a range of fields and its common issues. For example, Ian Bogost will expand […]
Week 222
Last week concluded our visit to New York. We’re very happy that we managed to squeeze in meeting lots of friends in those couple of days. We also attended Sleep No More, an immersive theater project by Punchdrunk which is touted as the best in this field. The experience and set decoration were impeccable but […]
Week 220
Last Monday Kars handed over the running engagements to me and tied up some loose ends for ASARI and SABA before jumping on a plane to NYC. He’s there for a week of sight-seeing with his lovely wife before I follow him for work. That left me with a productive week where I integrated the design […]
Week 219
Having returned from London over the weekend, I was back in the Utrecht studio and joined by Alper who would be here the whole week. Our normal routine of remote collaboration is pretty effective but it’s fun—and useful—to have the occasional week of working face-to-face. On Monday I tied up some loose ends from our […]
Week 239
This week, like most recent ones before it, was mostly about AJI. We wrapped up a sprint focused on getting the website in shape, reviewed it and planned a new one. The next sprint is all about “fixing broken windows”. We also decided to start thinking about the story we would tell around the service. […]