Visiting Iran – the TGC
10/09/2018 10:49
This summer I was invited as speaker at the TGC, the Theran Game Convention. I was not sure what to expect in advance, but was amazed with the curiosity and welcoming atmosphere I encountered. Read more
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to solve plastic waste • in Turkey
17/05/2018 19:19
To teach design thinking and other 21 th century skills I was invited to do a workshop (similar as we did a workshop in Pune – India last year) at Bilkent Laboratory and International School (Blis) in Ankara Turkey.
In preperation to this workshop, we first gave exactly the same workshop to the teachers of the school on their yearly education day as one of the courses provided. These teachers have different nationalities but very similar passion about teaching kids plus best of all: a critical thinking attitude. So afternmaking them design a game concept plus prototype as a solution to create waste awareness. They asked good question about the process and end-results and the matters around playing. Read more
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Book launch Apply Play to get ahead of the game
22/04/2018 22:01
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 is DONE.
With the supergreat help of Darcie Goodwin, my super reader-helpers, and finally Rick Verhoog who managed to make it a beautifull product, and off-course the printers: Chapo.team it was a super evening with many personal plus business connections present. Read more
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Levelling level design
12/03/2018 20:53
Once upon a time a team of students at the University of Amsterdam were very confident about their game concept, and about developing their game. It was a matter of putting the elements and assets together. Then I told him to think about their level design… and again they answered to me: “the levels… we just need to adjust these and balance, once we got everything on the stage together”. Read more
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GIST – talking about designing games for a special targetgroup
11/02/2018 22:31
How to design games for a elderly, was the topic of my talk at the Game Developers Conference in Istanbul 2018. I showed samples and experienced, and shared why this target group is so great to use and learn about what a players wants and can do. How to design accessible and desirable games. The audience asked great questions about how to create games not only for entertainment, and how to create awareness on gaming for impact. The organisation was perfect and i received a gentle Thank you note after returning home.
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“The playful wonderland behind great inventions” by Steven Johnson
14/12/2017 18:56
Watch this animation and understand what fun can do….
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Playing with animals
10/10/2017 10:14
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 nature organisations to become famous in Next year’s to be launched game. Read more
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Talking at Internet of People event
03/10/2017 12:23
I was invited to talk at the Internet of people event about Internet of Elephants. I presented the concept of Internet of Elephants and how we aim to reuse location and other data retrieved from scientists and conservation organisations to create compelling games to interact and play with this data. To treasure this real data plus these animals as becoming so scarce, yet so much valuable to learn about life and survival. A great discussion about ethics and “butting in or leave be” came up. I would like to thank the audience for their participation.
(plus the other talks where great on questioning technology and societal matters as privacy, safety, identity protection and ethics, very interesting to have been able to attend!)
link to my prezi presentation >>
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immergent persuasive gameplay
16/09/2017 18:49
This video named Hyper reality is a great example how we could gamify life and add motivational triggers, nudges in an augmented interface… real cool material to ignite the discussion on ethics, plus the freedom for the player, how far can we go? How far do you want to be played? Check the video here >> Read more
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Article on: “Dutch playfull colaboration to protect wildlife”
25/08/2017 08:51
An article is published about the collaboration between at least three game companies to produce a game (and Ellis in Wonderland is one)
Read the article (in Dutch) online: Adformatie
Or see the pdf >>adformatie.nl