Quick holiday notes, part 3
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week on Monday, my last day of work, I did my quarterly revenue taxes and finished my KIJK article on augmented...
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With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I still was on a campsite in France with my family. Good weather turned into drizzle, but this didn’t...
View ArticleA very watchable game
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week, the gentlemen at Two Tribes managed to submit the PlayStation 4 version of our shooter/platformer RIVE to...
View ArticleI took the train to Cologne
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week on Thursday I took the train to Cologne for Gamescom, Europe’s biggest games show. The shooter/platformer...
View ArticleUpscaling it
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I thought hard about how to take the reading app ideas from my own Geometry Girl app novel / prototype to...
View ArticleSome kind of shape
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I continued trying to get my reading app business in some kind of shape. Menno helped, and I talked about...
View ArticleProduct propositions
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week, work on my broader reading app plans continued. Among other things, I checked in with Kars, who made his...
View ArticleNail-biting action
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. After nearly three years of blood, sweat and tears, last week RIVE came out on Steam and PlayStation 4. For just 15...
View ArticlePreparing for an even busier week
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week was rather busy, in a ‘preparing for an even busier week’ kind of way. Sleep was better than the week...
View ArticleRewrote and delivered
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Last week I rewrote and delivered the script for the Antegods comic, which artist Robin Keijzer then started work...
View ArticleI cracked it a couple times before
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week1 I stayed at the Amsterdam Translators’ House, away from my family, with a simple task: finishing the...
View ArticleA number of smaller breakthroughs
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This was my second and last week in the Amsterdam Translators’ House, and it was super productive. I didn’t have a...
View ArticleThe digital-literary sphere
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week I visited the Frankfurter Buchmesse. The Netherlands and Flanders were honorary guest and, happily, I was...
View ArticleThree things I’d like to discuss briefly
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week was shorter than usual, as my daughters had an extra day off on Monday, and we all went to Sea Life in The...
View ArticleSimple and effective anniversary celebration
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. Ten years ago this week I got married, right here in Utrecht, in the Dom tower. So my wife and I went out for...
View ArticleRude awakening
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This was a week of rude awakening. Literally: I fell asleep on Tuesday confident that Hillary Clinton would be...
View ArticlePost-Brexit England
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. This week on Thursday I traveled to post-Brexit England for a couple of days. My trip pretty much took place on the...
View ArticleTwo new ways to play
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive whatever it is I spend my time on. RIVE is a ‘vintage action game’ for which I created the world, story and dialog. It’s out on Steam and PlayStation...
View ArticleSpeech bubbles and lettering
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work. Antegods is the ‘stonepunk arena action’ multiplayer game (and comic book) I’m working on with Codeglue. This week I spent a day drawing...
View ArticleSome actual writing
With these weeknotes I publicly track and archive my work. Geometry Girl is my upcoming app novel, a literary story taking the shape of an innovative app. It’s also the start of a general iOS reading...
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