Students from the University of Applied Science Amsterdam in the Minor Design Thinking & Doing are being exposed to many creative tools available. One afternoon in the Kick-off weef a “Make Play!…
Five teams studying at the department of Gamestudies were working on applied games for stakeholders for 6 months. A workshop prototyping was done in one afternoon and great concepts were proven to…
This picture is taken at Laika on the Westergasfabriek, the company I co-founded in 2000, and left in 2010. Then we made a tagcloud as decoration on our window… still enjoying these…
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…
In november 2016 I was invited to talk at the Design week in Rio de Janeiro. This is thanks to Clarissa Biolchini and Laje, from their reference I got invited and thanks to…
A battle is actually an abstract form of a feedbackloop, what action revolves in certain action/reaction, which triggers insight, learning and new actions… interactivity, challenge and a learning curve is always experienced…
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…
Today I am talking to educators of the future on how to incorporate games & play in education. The slides in prezi as promised can be found here >>
I was invited to talk at the Design Week in Rio de Janeiro november 2015. The location was beautiful, the event was perfect, and the people were great. Something unexpected was the…
Please read this article, and see how hard it is to properly test your product, and even more when your product is a game! Gamasutra: Anatomy of a Usability Test in Video Games…