PhD, Assistant Professor, CHI, BCSS workshop @PT

So a lot happened since the last update. In pictures that looks something like this:

IMG-20170325-WA0005IMG-20170323-WA0003 CHI Presentation

Obtained a PhD on my thesis (Steering) Interactive Play Behavior [or smaller pdf]. We had a very nice SIKS symposium, that I organized to follow up my PhD defense. I presented my first full paper at CHI (one of the most important conferences in my field). I co-organized a worskhop at Persuasive Technology.  I finally had time to work on and submit three journal papers. I also worked hard on my personal grant proposals, for an attempt to work on balancing exergames and joining the exertion games lab at RMIT for a year, fingers crossed. In the mean time, it is already fall 2017 and our new New Media modules started, looking forward to the interactive experiences.

Course Game Design 2016

We just finished this year’s course on Game Design at the University of Twente for the bachelor Creative Technology. It was the first time I was responsible for this course and I liked working on it very much, and fortunately the students also responded quite positive. The course was formed around some of the topics of Jesse Schell’s book on Game Design. In total the workload was only 4EC so we couldn’t cover all the basics unfortunately. As one part of the course the students created a “2D” game in Unity, either as 1 player game or allowing only for “multiplayer” on one keyboard.

The students created quite some nice games in Unity for the final project of this course. In total we had over 70 students working on games, mostly in duos.
Some games really turned out well, so enjoy playing them and feel free to contact those gifted fresh game designers to continue their work!

student1 student2 name of game type of game url Rating voor op website
Chulakit Dumnoenchanvanit Christiaan Verloop White house defense tower defense http://robbyvd.com/games/whitehousedefense/Builds.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”1″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Samantha Galvez Denise van Ingen Lazy Pixel nostaligic arcade http://robbyvd.com/games/lazypixel/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”2″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Ruben Brouwer Rachelle Kraal Endless kNight endless runner http://robbyvd.com/games/endlessknight/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”3″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Linde van de Elzen Jaimy de Kok temple escape maze http://robbyvd.com/games/templeescape_win.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”4″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Max van Ijsselmuiden Justin Krooneman tank run “space” shooter http://robbyvd.com/games/TankRunFinal/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”5″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Jiska Chang Sarah Hoekstra minotaurus maze http://robbyvd.com/games/Minotaurusgame.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”6″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Cis Sanderink Jordi Weldink knight game  platform game http://robbyvd.com/games/KnightGame/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”7″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Corjan van den brink Kaj Hobey Tanks and Turrets tank battle http://robbyvd.com/games/tnt/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”8″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Kaixin Chen Dominque Kosters Plank Attack arcade http://robbyvd.com/games/plankattack/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”9″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Vladyslav Khomenko Karsten Dietvorst Spike Attack space “shooter” http://robbyvd.com/games/spikeattack/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”10″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Jordi Agricola Bas van ‘t Spijker Flying Fox platform “copied” fox game http://robbyvd.com/games/flyingfox/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”11″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Quinton Denman Thijs van Vliet Four flowers maze http://robbyvd.com/games/4Flowers.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”12″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Max van de Vugt Roof Jumper endless runner http://robbyvd.com/games/roofjumper/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”13″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Remco de Man Jesse Zwienenberg Upwards Gravity < you name it > http://robbyvd.com/games/upwardgravity/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”14″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Bas van den Borg Camille Gruter True Deflection arcade / shooter /knive http://robbyvd.com/games/TrueDeflection/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”15″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Jasper Peetsma Silas Wittrock BallDrop ball rolling http://robbyvd.com/games/BallDrop/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”16″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Mayke Klumper Yanick Brezet Ships of War tanks / battleship http://robbyvd.com/games/ShipsOfWar/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”17″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Arnold Averink Mini Vilago (city-)building http://robbyvd.com/games/minivilagxo.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”18″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Floor Visser Thijs Berends Pumpkin Conquer maze http://robbyvd.com/games/pumpkinconquer/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”19″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
David Bel Lang Florian Naumilkat SpeedForce http://robbyvd.com/games/Speedforce/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”20″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Tom Morsink Rebel Droid space-shooter/tutorial-like http://robbyvd.com/games/RebelDroid/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”21″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Melcher Stikkelorum Lukas Miedema Bacterium ?arcade? <you name it> http://robbyvd.com/games/bacterium/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”22″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Anne-Joke Wijsmuller Aniek Colijn Museum Escape maze (a bit tutorial-like) http://robbyvd.com/games/MuseumEscape.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”23″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Sondre Løvhaug Hargobind Wester Spinny Spin (inversed) bubble shooter http://robbyvd.com/games/spinnyspin/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”24″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Florian Fikkert Sander de Koning That’s my flower (humoristic) shooter http://robbyvd.com/games/ThatIsMyFlower/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”25″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Paulius Gagelas Niels van Huizen Village Defence tower defense http://robbyvd.com/games/VillageDefence_Build_For_Windows.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”26″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Matthias Cordes Mircea Costan Parking Game “race” game http://robbyvd.com/games/ParkTheGame/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”27″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Zoë Bosschaart Phillipe Tuinman Student Loss platform http://robbyvd.com/games/StudentLoss.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”28″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Mark van Doessum Tim Blok The colour is magic 2 player arena spell shooter http://robbyvd.com/games/ColourIsMagic/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”29″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Alexandros Charizanis Enyo Ahovi Pixel Tower Defense http://robbyvd.com/games/PixelTowerDefense.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”30″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Luca Battistella Pepijn Peeters Infinity Ball endless runner http://robbyvd.com/games/InfinityBall/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”31″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Nikita Vaneev Artemis Lyou Agonas platform (greek) http://robbyvd.com/games/AgonasGame/index.html [ratingwidget_raw id=”32″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Sefora Tunç Betina Markova Royal Chef collection / narrative http://robbyvd.com/games/Royal Chef.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”33″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Wessel Ammerlaan Thérèse Bergsma Hot Air co-op endless “flyer” http://robbyvd.com/games/HotAir.zip
[ratingwidget_raw id=”34″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]
Mark Kenny Williams Adomas Pivoriunas Space War space shooter (tutorial-like) http://robbyvd.com/games/SpaceWar.zip [ratingwidget_raw id=”35″ title=”my-title” type=”page”]

Google’s animal realm

HorseWhat a simple question, what does an animal say, don’t we all remember such things? I recently bumped into this feature of Google and that made me quite happy. From the perfect suggestions, the appropriate audio quality, the large buttons, the educational link to a small cartoon picture and the name of the animal: Awesome…

 

 

 

 

 

GREAT, the Gait Rehabilitation Floor in national news


The movie on the left is about the some of the games on the floor. The news item itself is off course in Dutch. We got our own GREAT floor from LedGo at the DesignLab now. With it we hope to speed up the process of developing new games for the floor and this recently made it to the national news.

The NOS news item starts at 12m 24 seconds
http://www.npo.nl/nos-journaal/06-04-2016/POW_02989477

 

UTNieuws excerpt:
Hightech looptherapie op videovloer UT en LedGo installeren vloer op 5 april in DesignLab
https://www.utwente.nl/nieuws/!/2016/4/499120/hightech-looptherapie-op-videovloer

 

Submitted first draft for thesis

ITPAfter almost five years and being involved in 4 research projects, it was finally time: 100.000+ words of `dazzling brilliance’. It will have 12 Chapters, following an introduction this is spread over four parts:  I) Steering Behavior in Interactive Play Spaces, II) Play for People with Profound Disabilities, III) Play for Gait Rehabilitation, and IV) Conclusion.