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Three years of Adventure Jam. Part two: One Of Us (2017) I returned to Adventure Jam in 2017 with a new set of challenges. In 2016 we had joined as a team and always knew what to do and who would do it. We were all working together locally. In 2017 I did not have...

Our exibition at the Waterkant Festival 2018 This year’s Waterkant Festival was a very special time for us: not only did we have the chance to show our game ‘The Ransom‘ to the festival audience but we were also involved in organizing a game jam and speaking at the festival. It was our first time...

Three years of Adventure Jam. Part one: Awake (2016) Game jams are a magical thing. You get together with friends both old and new and create a video game in a very short timespan. In a way, jams are microcosms. While the jam is going your priorities are shifted, your whole life seems to circle...

Ambiguity in Game Design: What developers can learn from Dear Esther I decided to start this blog with a post about Dear Esther because it was the first game in the relatively new genre of ‘Walking Simulators’. It is revolutionary in many ways, most notably for getting rid of video game conventions and exploring what...