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The opening film for the Dutch Game Award dinner last Thursday. I had great fun that evening with some great individuals from the Dutch Gaming Industry. Hopefully the organization can keep up the high level of tasteful food, drinks, chicks (chicken breast that is)…and euh… GAMES of course!
Two new friends I met that develop game trainings for students (gamesmaken.nl)
Me and the ladies… 😉
A VERY cool game concept : a puzzle game made in two months by just one guy: Jay van Hutten – his ‘one-red-button’ game is called ichi: check it out on www.ichi-game.com!
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> By exception a Dutch video from one of the partners I work with just because:
A. It was his first Pecha Kucha presentation
B. He did a great job presenting – very funny and very much as himself
C. It was a great project that I saw coming to life from close distance and really enjoyed being (tiny) part of.
Pecha Kucha presentatie from Today Designers on Vimeo.
Go to their website for more creative shizzle: www.todaydesigners.com
>During my graduation some 15 years ago I unconsciously started humming “… but I stiiiiill haven’t fouhound… what I’m looking fooooooor…..” [U2] – In the digital era searching for stuff is easier on one hand (thanks to search engines and blogs), but because there is so much information and mumbo jumbo on the internet it can be hard to find what you need. Sometimes even iTunes suggests songs to me that I already bought some time ago… Anyway – just a useless introduction to this infographic especially for (my) students! That should help you to use Google more effectively!
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Last week I visited London, Manchester and Birmingham with a delegation of the most promising Dutch Creative Companies. During this tour we visited all kinds of events like the entrepreneur conference in the Milky Building in Tech City (Shoreditch) on Monday, the BBC studios, a match making lunch, a meet and great with our prime minister – Mark Rutte and a high tea in the town hall of Manchester. The third day we went to Launch – a game event in Birmingham and we visited RARE Entertainment – one of the key developers for Xbox Kinect. They created the best selling Sports series. I went back to London on Thursday to have a fabulous day with my good girlfriend Mitra and she took me to all kinds of museums (VNA & Science Museum) and a fantastic authentic Iranian restaurant near Paddington and Hyde Park (hidden park as we call it).
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During my tour through the UK last week I saw a lot of interesting new cases of how games can be used to promote your brand and add some relevant content to your consumers context. This Heineken concept seems really interesting. I don’t think it’s out in The Netherlands yet (UK only), but it could be well-localized I guess, since ‘play’ and football is universal (especially/mostly within Europe and Latin America’s I guess). Thanks Mark Wilson for showing this concept to me and for the beers afterwards 😉 look forward to our next meeting!
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