October 2016 I was attending the Game Conference in India for four days, and as a dessert I was invited to do a day workshop with schoolkids in Pune. A selection of…
At the University of Applied Science Amsterdam, for the launch of the new academic year, students are Challenged to develop games at the Zoo (Artis), to engage visitors with the less popular…
“Game makers have spent the past four decades trying to pull players into games, developing a bag of tricks and techniques to make people feel immersed in virtual worlds.” See this video if…
People who know me, know; I love to talk about flow, and how to manage to stay in flow, or how to apply this in design to help someone else manage his…
This is a very interesting article to read: “Serious Recruiting Games: 6 Tips For Using Games And Simulations For Recruiting Success“ It gives a nice summary of using games as a tool…
Together with Little Chicken and Newzoo we brainstorm a full day at the THNK home to co-create the future of the Internet of Elephants, are we able to design a game to…
A group of 11 Dutch game-entrepeneurs, game-researchers, game-developers and designers were invited by Dutch Culture (centre for international cooperation) to go Roadtrip India. To meet the Indian Industry, government and organisations to learn from each…
Three students at the University of Amsterdam developed within a few month a game for youth on the topic of problematic social behaviour, how to deal with anxiety, how to respond to…
“Doing something over and over again doesn’t just make it easier. It actually changes the brain. That may not come as a surprise. But exactly how that process happens has long been…
I am very fond of threes, how they stand and how divers they are, and what they most have seen while growing for so many years, being there on the same spot.…