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
Thursday 14 December we had another Test & Chill event at our multimedia design study. More than 45 students of our major Game Design and the minor Game On showed up to have their games playtested, nice! In total 15+ games -applied & entertainment- were tested, including: rough early digital prototypes, paper prototypes, a Hololens … Continue reading Looking back: Test & Chill December 2017
At our major Game Design students learn making games. Besides all the theories, assignments and projects one of my colleagues Sean had the idea to organise additional game jams to support the learning and to let students really feel they are studying Game Design. Game Jams are a great way to get more hands on … Continue reading Looking back: Day Jam November ’17
Arjan van Houwelingen 