door Jaap de Goede | 16 juni 2022
Why don’t we do Lego Serious Play, said colleague Diederik to me. I frowned. If you are like me, then you may have wondered what on earth playing with Lego would be good for, as a serious play activity. Lego is for kids, right? How little did I know. This 18th of May...
door Jaap de Goede | 18 maart 2022
Young game designers have talent, and good game design is not easy. These are two lessons I learned from this year’s fun and tension packed SAGANET Awards. With five finalist contestants, each with their own unpublished serious game, the event was quite full, and that...
door Jaap de Goede | 10 januari 2022
Can wargames be sexy, insightful and commercial at the same time? This is one of the questions I saw at least partly answered at this year’s Connections NL. They can. And even with an impending lockdown one can have an inspiring Connections with lots of game play....
door Jaap de Goede | 19 november 2021
Can Escape Rooms be effective serious games? After this November’s SAGANET session I believe this can be answered with a resounding yes. Speakers Marco Bakker from Escape Expert, Carel Ketelaars from IntotheMirror and Marc van Hasselt from Novitas Heritage all gave...
door Carel Ketelaars | 2 juni 2021
Het Voorjaarsseminar, het tweede seminar van dit jaar, stond in het teken van professionaliseren. Het was opnieuw online en mag opnieuw een succes worden genoemd. Met 22 deelnemers, waaronder twee nieuwe leden en een gast zijn interessante inzichten uitgewisseld. Een...
door Jaap de Goede | 2 maart 2021
In short I enjoyed the seminar immensely, and was pleasantly surprised by how much knowledge we could share among each other and how enthusiastic and focussed everyone was. We had Frank Pierie from Groningen University demonstrating his We Energy game, played hundreds...
