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Ellis in wonderland is a feedbackfreak

I am a fan of feedback and guidance in life… am a bit of a sucker for technology to emphasise valuable feedback in daily life, how fast I run, how much I sleep, how much I drink and eat… as a #QS-er (quantify self) always eager to get (any) data to learn from… Big Data […]

A playful tool to assist coping = This is how I do it!

A co-creation process (during CoviD lock downs) including health experts plus clients who are coping with an impact in life (brain damage or physical trauma). The end-result after 8 months collaborating and development (including testing and iterations) we developed a playful journal/diary, 15 postcards titled: ‘zo doe ik het’ (this is how I do it), […]

Bookreview on Apply Play

I am very very honoured for my Dutch book to be reviewed by Thomas Fondelli, he already applies play in his therapeutic practice, and got curious about applying ‘gamification’ in his practice, therefor he read and reviewed my book thoroughly for the magazine “Systeemtheoretisch bulletin” in Belgium. Reading about his struggle reading through it, I […]

D’you know how to connect really? – Anne Frank Foundation

We are launching the game “Open deur?!” (=open door) by Anne Frank Foundation. Together with a great team of divers expertise and Tinqwise Immersive, we created an educational game for vmbo students (age 15-18) to practice/learn listening, connecting and foster a two way dialog. The game was developed in many corona- co- creation sessions, including […]

Journey to India

Thanks to several organisations as the Dutch Embassy in India, Dutch Culture and the DGA, I was invited to visit India to share knowledge on game design and development. From that amazing trip, I got in contact with great people and the journey grew larger and bigger…. last year I got invited as board member […]

A review on “Speel het spel”

My book is reviewed in Dutch! “Play the game – gamification as a motor for change is a nice and fresh booklet in which the elements of (playing) games are unraveled and you are invited to start working with it yourself.“ An english version “Apply Play” is also for sale here >>Specially proud on same […]

Proud to present/launch Dutch version of Apply Play = Speel het spel

Yes, my second boek “Speel het spel” is out, although I am cheating a bit.. since this is the translation of my first book “Apply Play • to get Ahead of the Game“. But I am so proud and gratefull for all thos who helped me create this one… and looking forward what this publication […]

Corona Co-creation

I decided to enter the Dutch Hacking Health Hackathon 2020 online to face some serious Corona Challenges in a team. We were team of 8, great diversity with knowledge and experience, plus great tools online in our challenge to co-create together a solution within just a few days, while NOT eing physically together. We met […]

From a spontaneity to a challenge?

In april last year, I launched my book Apply Play • to get ahead of the game, and have been receiving compliments plus suggestions via social media, per mail and in person since then. To my surprise, many people sent me a photo of their book Apply Play, and I feel very honoured to have […]

Exposing play in the Village

Ellis in wonderland was invited to conduct a playfull workshop on bridging art and an audience plus be part of the exhibition to talk about playful education. “The Village Project functions as a mediator and presents a form of physical and psychological experience that sheds light on certain aspects of creative learning and alternative education by […]

Are you a playful citizen?

I am extremely proud to be part of this book: “The Playful Citizen • Civic Engagement in a Mediatized Culture” published by Amsterdam University Press. “In the last decade, digital media technologies and developments have given rise to exciting new forms of ludic, or playful, engagements of citizens in cultural and societal issues. From the Occupy movement […]

Karuta!

I often have coffee or lunch at Hannie’s studio in Amsterdam, and we can talk forever about the borders and bridges between art and sciences, and ideally we also discuss crossing the borders between countries and cultures. We cross over and share our experiences, and this project Hannie was doing (next to the Nano project […]

The Fixer… leaderboard

This is the hi-score list of the fixer… game, keep track of the highest score, and make sure you score even higher! sent it to us via mail or use our questionnaire to provide us feedback on your play …or get the game to play it, sent an email to: play@ellisinwonderland.nl Imagine: What if we […]

Dilemmachine

Ever experienced a dilemma? Had a hard time to make a decission? Well here is a solution to deal with that, ideally in a social context with more then one person, or a team, to dissect your dilemma…. The dilemmachine is a product by ellis in wonderland. COMING SOON!

Book launch Apply Play to get ahead of the game

This friday april 20th was finally the booklaunch of Apply Play • to get ahead of the game. I want to thank THNK Academy for providing me this location, in the modules, with my THNK class #5 participants, the idea of writing a book on gamedesign was planted, and now almost three years later…. it […]

Playing with animals

Last weekend of september I was invited to join the Herd of the Internet of Elephants to the Steppes Beyond 2017 Festival in the Royal Geographical Society in London to have visitors play with 6 Augmented Animals in our Safari Central app. This app is a sneak preview to introduce the 6 real animals provided by six different […]

Apply play

To get a copy of the book Apply play • to get ahead of the game? Buy the book “Speel het spel” direct including free signature!Pay 22,50 via paypal (ellis@ellisinwonderland.nl) or banktransfer NL64 ASNB 0707 8187 10 or buy at Bol.com plus soon online for sale on Amazon.com. For over 20 years I have been developing […]

Seeing Nano project

In the year 2015 and 2016 I have been advicing Hannie van den Bergh with the intriguing project of bridging an abstract concept as Nano technology is, towards a wide audience. This project was a EU collaboration of different partners from science, art and industry. And the end result where several events including the tools […]

TNO and Vita Valley doing research on gaming to activate

I was member of the coalition doing research on the activation of elderly in play. We visited as a group many locations where elderly are using play and games, and many companies and organsiations buidling products. The result of this research can be read in this publication: Play On >> TNO_VitaValley_Letsplay_Engels_DEF1 (english) TNO_VitaValley_Letsplay_DEF_LR1 (dutch)

Creating magic play with refugees

UNITE – In Utrecht around christmas a party was organised to make citizens of Utrecht connect with refugees from Syria, while waiting for their next situation. What other then play can be done? So I was asked to create a play station. I brought as many games and toys along as I could find, create […]

Who am I?

I love these questionaries with a very solid numeric outcome as reference to what and who I am to learn and reflect (playful) about my identity, one test says my Gaming Style is ‘Calm, Spontaneous, Relaxed, Independent, Grounded, and Practical’, but as I read the profile… I am mainly not a game in the specific test, so small […]

Coach4life on tv!

The morning talkshow: “Koffietijd” (=coffeetime) featured Coach4Life (which I co-developed) The kidneypatient Irene is my favorite tester involved in the beta testing (since she was clever enough to cheat by altering her Iphone time setting ; ), but what and how she says in this interviewis really so gratifying! “this game really has changed my life” See her […]

How a fun app can save a life!

As a consultant and in the role of the ambassador for the player, I was involved with developing this app in 2013 and 2014. The Dutch Kidney Foundation (Dutch: Nierstichting) has teamed up with kidney patients and healthcare professionals to develop an app called Coach4Life. Coach4Life supports people with chronic kidney disease (CKD) in leading as healthy […]

Vitamine P a puzzle a day keeps the doctor away

With Laika.nl we worked from 2005 till 2010 on Vitamine P, a concept for a social communitysite for elderly to play daily puzzles together. Concept trailer >> Presentation design for elderly (Prezi) The concept and it’s proces in Prezi >> All puzzles can be viewed being played on you tube >> Prezi concept presentation Vitamine […]

Laika game design 10 years summary

At Laika we developed for clients approx. 50 serious games and interactive playful concepts, websites and content management systems between 2000 and 2010. A brief overview: games to make children aware of the risks of coral reefs and endangered wild life and nature games to teach children about water management and hygiene and global citizenship games to help […]