Another great TEDx on gaming

Brenda Brathwaite: “Gaming for understanding” talks about gaming and play very clear… and the value of play, or the making of abstract (difficult) topics meaningfull in play. Watch this TEDxtalk:

Talking about applied game design

This interview is done by Fast Moving Targets at Games for Health Conference 2013. “Validation is not the holy grail in game research” “We need great “chefcooks” in our game industry” “My…

Poetry in public transport…

I was mentioned in the newspaper for the Dutch Design Week this week…. In 1997 I graduated at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, my project was “Poetry in public transport”.I made several…

MagiGameCircle Workshop at HH Groningen

At the Hanzehogeschool in Groningen is a 6 month program: ‘Game on‘ for international students to work in applied game development. While working on a HIV awareness game for Kenya, they are…

Kolb and games

Kolb wrote about learning styles, and the following graph relates very close to gaming to, in learning it is a circle from: feeling -> watching -> thinking -> doing…. for learning everyone…

Do not fool (with) me!

Recently a countdown was added to the traffic lights for cyclists in Amsterdam. I was rather intrigued, it DID change my behaviour as a cyclist; to be patient and wait for the light to turn green!…