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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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Quick holiday notes, part 4

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...

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A 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...

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I 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...

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Upscaling 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...

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Some 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...

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Product 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...

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Nail-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...

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Preparing 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...

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Rewrote 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...

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I 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...

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A 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...

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The 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...

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Three 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...

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Simple 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...

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Rude 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...

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Post-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...

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Two 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...

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Speech 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...

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Some 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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