On Monday last week I returned from a fun stay in Warsaw. That same day, I attended This happened – Utrecht #17. As almost always, the talks were lovely honest accounts of how things were made. I was particularly taken with Mieke Meijer’s story about her discovery of a wood-like material made of old newspapers. […]
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Week 212
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Tagged age of play, AJI, BNR, critique, David Kanaga, Eric Zimmerman, FRIDAYS AT 7, Japan, ludic century, Making Progress, Marc Fonteijn, Mieke Meijer, prototypes, radio, SANMA, This happened, XCode
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Week 211
Last week, Alper was away on holiday in Japan, making a courageous effort to drink all the coffee in Japan. His travels continue this week, let’s hope he does not spontaneously combust. I was joined by Simon on Tuesday for a day of work on ASARI. We detailed the design of the toylike interactive infographics […]
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Tagged ASARI, Beestenbende, coffee, Dennis Zoetebier, Fireworks, Japan, Processing, Saba, Simon Scheiber, The Witcher 3, Warsaw
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Week 206–207
I’m writing up two weeks in one go, for no particular reason other than that I was on a short holiday in Stockholm last week even though it was my turn to do notes. For shame. (STHLM is a recommended destination, I should add.) Alper wrapped up project SAME together with Sebastian. They documented the […]
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Tagged AJI, ASARI, Beestenbende, design consulting, Info.nl, Making Progress, Marc Fonteijn, Saba
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Week 205
Last week was a decisive week for both ASARI and SAME, projects in two countries that both went through their final phases. Kars prepped ASARI for a client presentation. He went through the concept with the Info.nl design team and sketched out our concepts for the final presentation which was received well. We have thought […]
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Tagged 3D, ASARI, Critical Mass, cycling, Gamecity, Info.nl, iOS7, Mozilla Festival, Munich, playful, programming, SAME, SceneKit, Sebastian Deterding, SpriteKit, Stijn Oomes
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Week 203
Last week got us into a good rhythm for our summer engagements. A quick slice from our current stack. Kars prepared and facilitated the second workshop for ASARI where tons of sketching resulted in a roughly final concept which can go up for presentation before the start of the first design and development sprint. Kars and […]
Week 202
It’s an absolutely gorgeous summer day outside. One of the first of the year, in fact. Sun may not be noteworthy in your part of the world, but this is the Netherlands so it totally is. You can imagine the willpower it takes for me to stay inside and write this. Anyway, on to what […]
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Tagged ASARI, Beestenbende, Dutch Game Garden, Info.nl, Pig Chase
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Week 201
Lots of logistics this week and new projects getting started. I was due to be back in the Netherlands for some meetings so I started Monday in Utrecht at Hubbub HQ while Kars went to Info.nl to work on ASARI1. We’re really happy to be working together with our old friends over in Amsterdam and […]
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Tagged Asana, ASARI, Beestenbende, BrunsNiks, Dirk Vis, FRIDAYS AT 7, GEElab, Hackers and Founders, Hue, Info.nl, Japanese, Monoband, Munich, OKR, Philips, SAME, Sebastian Deterding, This happened – Utrecht, Victory Boogie Woogie, Vlambeer
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Week 199–200
These notes cover the past two weeks. Week 199 covered the tail end of my honeymoon on Bali. Spending time on the island was a pleasure as always. (I’ve lost count, but I think this was my sixth visit.) My absence combined with a temporary lull in client work gave Alper the opportunity to relax […]
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Tagged Beestenbende, Cuppings, Hide&Seek, MLOVE, SAME, Tiny Games, Victory Boogie Woogie
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Week 193
Last week while I was still in Paris (like Kars mentioned in the previous week’s notes) we launched the pilot for Ripple Effect. That was a moment where we saw the work of the past period come to fruition and exposed real players worldwide to the game. The game has held up very nicely but […]
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Tagged Beestenbende, card game, Grit, Knutepunkt, La Cantine, Le Havre, lightning talk, Paris, Ripple Effect, UIKonf, Victory Boogie Woogie, Zach Gage
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Week 213
This was one of those in-between weeks so I’ll keep things short. I wrote up and published a project page for Ripple Effect. This was a very interesting and rewarding engagement with Shell, which we hope will see follow-up in the next year. Alper returned from Japan. I updated him of the things that went down […]