Just before the student Autumn break we had another edition of the playtesting event 'Test & Chill', co-organised with the student association Glitch. With around 80 participants -from all study years- we had a great turn up! It meant year 1 card game concepts were played, as were digital games. Check out the pictures below … Continue reading Looking back: Test & Chill October 2019
The Dutch tabletop games podcast 'Het Ludieke Gezelschap' contacted me to chat about the playtesting Guild 'Spellenmaakgilde' and discuss our activities. Especially now a 3rd location will start with events in Ede, in the center of the Netherlands. It is in Dutch, check out episode 73.
In the first weekend of July once again the yearly game designer convention was organised in Göttingen. The SAZ has taken on the organisation and the location changed to the Lokhalle. Together with a fellow designer and a game illustrator we participated on Saturday. Time to look back (for more tips and tricks see this … Continue reading Göttingen Game Designer Convention 2019 Impressions
Beginning of June we had another playtesting sessions. It was a small crowd that showed up. However, it was great to see students playtest their year 1 to year 4 projects! After the summer break we will be back with events. Until that time students, the Makerspace is a great spot to setup a playtest! … Continue reading Looking back: Test & Chill Playtesting June 2019
Tuesday afternoon 2 April we had another playtesting event at our study, supported once again by the study association Glitch. This time we had around 25 students showing up, most of them looking for feedback. On top of that we had a few external guests: a VR game company that wanted input on their VR … Continue reading Looking back: Test & Chill Playtesting April 2019
In my work as a lecturer at the Hanze Applied University we focus on the digital games industry. To showcase more where this industry stands in the north of the Netherlands, they made a video with interviews of many participants in this field: students, company owners and lecturers. If you want to know more about the … Continue reading Impression Northern Dutch Digital Games Industry
On Tuesday 22 January we had a rather impromptu playtesting session. The moment was right after the project deadline of 1st year students and just before the deadline of 2nd year students of our CMD study. So the turnup was a bit lower than usual. Still there were multiple groups getting feedback on their prototype. … Continue reading Looking back: Test & Chill January 2019
On 11 December 2018 we had another playtesting event at our CMD multimedia study. Students presented their digital school projects, their personal work and even a tabletop game going for crowdfunding on Kickstarter right now (Epic Story of Blank and Blank). Some students assessed each other's art and shared tips. And some graduate students had … Continue reading Looking back: Test & Chill December 2018
Once again we had a playtesting afternoon. Students of all study years were present and many concepts and prototypes were demonstrated. It was cool to see many types of projects: group work, individual work, some well developed, others still rough work in progress, digital and card games. We will have 2 playtesting events again next … Continue reading Blog – Impressions Test & Chill November 2018
As a lecturer, game designer and organiser of playtesting events it is a balancing act what to focus on. The paid job has priority of course, as other live events and responsibilities. Game design has gotten some attention, and coming year hopefully more so 🙂 (enough ideas in the works for that). The Game Design … Continue reading Blog – The Guild Expands
Arjan van Houwelingen 