INDIGO, the showcase for Dutch (indie) games I set up with my former colleagues at Dutch Game Garden back in 2009, has ventured outside of the Netherlands for the first time last March. Each year San Francisco becomes the hotbed for game development for one week when the Game Developers Conference takes over the city. Thousands of people will visit the Californian city to be inspired, [...]
On Saturday May 11, I organized a “Day in the Park“: a celebration of playfulness with folk games, physical games and local multiplayer games. It was originally meant to take place in the Wilhelminapark but due to rain I moved the event to the Dutch Game Garden. Below you can watch all vines I shot that day. For photos and more info about the event [...]
“It’s amazing how we forget how much fun we had when playing these games when we were young. And it’s still fun!” - Day in the Park participant. Day in the Park #2 Organized by: zo-ii Games run by: Chad Toprak Location: Wilhelminapark Dutch Game Garden Photos: Day in the Park on Flickr Videos: Day in the Park Vines Day in the Park Last week we were [...]
Every month Dutch Game Garden organizes a network lunch. People from the game industry and beyond meet, mingle and eat sandwiches. I attended the May 8 lunch together with visting game designer from Melbourne, Australia: Chad Toprak. Part of the lunch is a (casual) showcase of games or prototypes from Dutch game developers and students. Below some vines I made for a couple of the games [...]
Control Gamelab #8 – Storytelling in Games Organized by Control Magazine. Location: Pakhuis de Zwijger. Interesting evening with different perspectives on storytelling in games. Photos and videos of the evening by Control Magazine Leading up to the event, Heleen Groenendijk wrote a post titled “Storytelling and Games – an impossible marriage?” (in Dutch). Inspired by the evening and by a post on Gamasutra, Arjen de [...]
Once again a quite exciting week if you are interested in game development, game culture and events surrounding it. Wild Rumpus, Bit of Alright, ‘Play in the Park day’ are all happening this week! Below I collected a couple of events that will take place this week. First up is the Netherlands with three events: a talkshow, a network lunch and a playful day in [...]
“Second International Indie Games Festival in Berlin – From April 24 to 26 A MAZE. Indie Connect brings together international indie game developers, creatives and enthusiast in Berlin.” I was there and took a bunch of photos. A small preview below. More #AMaze2013 photos are on zo-ii Flickr page and zo-ii FB page.
Recently Dutch Game Garden announced it is expanding to Amsterdam in collaboration with A Lab. It will facilitate office spaces for creatives in a former Shell laboratory closely located to Amsterdam Central Station and the newly opened filmmuseum EYE. I went there to check out the different available office spaces, but as the building is still in the midst of being renovated and redecorated it was just [...]
A MAZE Indie Connect 2013 – Berlin, Germany. 24-26 April, 2013. Selection of photos – *click* A “Vine” perspective: Might load a bit slow! – Hover over the vine to turn sound on/off. Click on vine to pause.
Experimental Gameplay Workshop 2013 at GDC Call for Participation (Nov 2012) Line-up of speakers Line-up of games Organizers: Robin Hunicke, Richard Lemarchand, Daniel Benmergui, Ryan Pelcz Video Registration: Gamasutra + GDC Vault Articles: Indie Statik: GDC 2013: The Experimental Gameplay Workshop Photos by zo-ii More Photos on Flickr Vines! I vined every talk. Watch them below! Hover over the vine to turn the audio on/off. Click on the vine [...]
