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
We have kicked the playtesting year off! Once again, with the support of the study association Glitch we had a great playtesting event at our study Communication & Multimedia Design. Students from all years (1st years to graduating students) brought their project work and their independent work. And some teachers walked in to give their 2 … Continue reading Test & Chill October 2018
The Hanze Applied University has an independent magazine for their students. Last year I donated 2 different games to them as a contest price. I had a zany interview about game design and the release of my game Capo della Mafia with them. That was already cool. Besides the print it is also available on … Continue reading Local news with Capo della Mafia
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In May we initiated another Day Jam, make a game in 24 hours. Students from year 1, 2 and 4 (and non-students) participated during their holiday break. Respect. My colleague Sean kicked it off with the theme on Thursday 3 May 'endings and beginnings. The next day the teams presented their games. There were 4 digital … Continue reading Impressive Jamming
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Nearing the end of the block (deadline week for the students), we had another playtesting event at the Hanze Applied University. There were multiple digital game prototypes and personally I brought some tabletop games. The next final block of the year will again offer 2 more events!
Thursday 15 March we had another playtesting event. Around 40 participants playtested more than a dozen games. There were students of different majors present and games tested included project group work, graduation work and some personal projects. Including a VR game and some card games! On the 5th of April we will have our next event!
In January we held another playtesting event at CMD Hanze Applied University. Around 60 students playtested 20 games and concepts, ranging from tabletop card games and party games to digital games. Some using hardware like a Hololens and augmented reality glasses. So all in all another great turnup, with students from year 1 ranging to … Continue reading Looking back – Test & Chill January 2018
Arjan van Houwelingen 