Welcome. My name is Arjan van Houwelingen. I am a tabletop game designer, lecturer and psychologist. I make entertainment and ‘serious’ games. Playfulness is important for me in all those roles. You can check out my game publications, my blog and read more about me and the playtesting guild I founded, the ‘Spellenmaakgilde’.

Art shown here is made by Emma Wilson for the upcoming release of GRUNN

About Arjan

Published Games

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Playtesting -Informal Learning- at CMGT Hanze

The academic year is nearing it’s end and as many educators can probably tell you, running classes / workshops is not yet the same as it was pre-COVID. The activity that did have a lot of students participate are our playtesting events, Test & Chill. When we started in September with our new study Creative…