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2013 – a retrospect
When I look back at 2013 I lose my breath. It has been a tremendously great year for us. Not in the sense of releasing professional games (albeit some of us have had some success in our companies with that. Read: KnapNok Games’ Spin the bottle and Cloud Chamber). But more in the sense of building…
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We’re going to the Maldives – The games
Read about the background of this trip here. We got the move controllers water-proofed and were excited to try our underwater idea. We thought of having an underwater minefield of floating move controllers. If you touched one, a chain reaction would start, and you would hear sounds played from above the water. However, as soon…
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We’re going to the Maldives – Boat, water and island games
Read about the background of this trip here. At our third day here we wanted to get to know the local culture more. We wanted to hear some local fairytales and folk stories. That’s why we arranged a get-together with some of the locals at a café on a Malé suburb – Villingili (it’s on…
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We’re going to the Maldives – first days
Read about the background of this trip here. The last couple of days we have been settling in. Getting to know the “island time” and meeting local people and Amani’s family. All very nice people. I got to play a game with the locals that they claim is the predecessor of the other games in…
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We’re going to the Maldives – day 0
Yay! We got invited to participate in this cool game design trip to the Maldives. Amani Naseem of the Collective has invited a group of international game designers to go and design games and make playful events in the capital city of the Maldives, Malé. We will work with key artists, thinkers and organizers in…