Here we goooooo!!!
Bachelor is DONE :)
and now? well thats not a question to ask



www.fuuub.com

And again one and a half weeks are over.!!!!
6 more days :) I am really excited!

Here is a small update of my work:
The packaging and the game is completely done !!!!Yeahhh

Now some bits and pieces are missing. The exhibition room still needs to be made/finished.  Thats what comes next. The main table is done already. Two more small furnitures are missing and then I am ready to paint the walls and finish up the spac.

6 more days! Here we go!

well only 3 more weeks to go. And the last 1 1/2 weeks rushed so fast by, that I did not even notice to post something. I dont have any weekends anymore, so that doesnt really help me figure our when the week is over and which day is today. I guess thats normal when you only have 3 more weeks to go. Although I must say, I am still in my time schedule and not really far behind, but trust me still stressed out. Without stress this wouldnt feel right I guess.

So coming up, see above most of my playing cards are finished. 3 more "categories" need to be silkscreened. The first layer of three is already been printed, the rest will come next week. 

Prototype and final packaging is in making. Wood is cut three time new again, since I always calculated smething wrong or something else was not thought of. :s I guess thats normal too, that you need to do a lot of things sometimes again and again until it finally works the way you want.

Playing stones are also almost done. A few still need to be sanded and get some colours and then they are done as well. 

Instruction manual, is on its way. A few more changes and tweaks here and there.
And ofcourse smaller bits and pieces still need to be done like always. 


If anyone came this far to read :) I need a bit of help if possible. Since this is a game designed for all generations and I would like to present it to the Examcommittee while the game is played. To realise this the best way I will need  some help of english speaking people preferably of all generations ("grandpa/grandma", adults, students, "older" child) to play my game on 21. June. 2013!

If you happen to know someone, who likes playing games about storytelling, can speak english and likes helping out other people, please let me know. This would be a super great awesome help for me. :) Thank you very much and take care!

3 more weeks to go (actually 20 days left)

All patterns for the cards are silkscreened and done!
And some of my cards are already done :) final final version.
This week went by verrrrry quickly. Lots of stuff going on at the same time. The beginning and endcards are already done!
The first playing cards were silkscreened today :)
Tomorrow I can lasercut some of the other cards to see the outcome.
A prototype for the packaging has been made yesturday and today :)
The palying stones are decided, colour and touch&feel is in progress.
The instruction manual is text-wise almost done.
Portfolios are printed, website is finished, scriptie is almost ready to be send to the printshop.
Business cards are in creation. Idea is there, realization will come this weekend.

Next post, photos of some finished cards, protoype of the packaging and final playingstones.

Five and a half weeks to go!  WAAAAAA :) :s

And my logo for the game is done!!!

More to come the next few days. Sorry for not posting in the last days.

I can proudly present my website!

www.fuuub.com

Annnnd back to some posting :)

I have had crazy 2 weeks. Ups and downs and chaos and actuallyI did have a lot of sturcture when I look back. 

What did I do in the last 2 weeks? Well.... 
I was busy with:
- the material for the game- After some lasercutting and a lot of undercoating, painting and varnishing, the outcome was MDF. MDF is made out of wood. A lot of small wood pieces are being pressed and "glued" together.
- the styles of each category- Each category of which there are 12 have a different style and I tried to find some so that they all eventually fit together. (pics are coming soon). One category is already almost done. (pics will come soon)
- the name of the game and I can proudly present my game will be called: "Tellit"
- the overall design and the logo (sketches are coming soon aswell) 
- game analysis- I had this week another game night session so that its possible to analyse the game a bit more and make here and there some more small tweaks. 
If you are interested in playing some games some time, please feel free to contact me. I always need more people who did not yet play my game, as well as are willing to play some other games for more analysis.
- instruction manual- I started on the first version and used that at the game night to see directly if the instruction manual does what it is suppose to do.

So lots of decisions were made, lots decisions are still to be made and off to the next round: visualization!!! packaging, production.

My prototype is done!!!
Now I am busy with research for each card. What style, which type, what and how many details need to be on the cards and much more. A lot of internet surfing, printing, cutting, sketches, trial and error.

    









Lots and lots of research still! 
I am busy with different things at the same time. 
A moodboard of different kinds of styles there are to illustration, so that I can decide what kind I want or in which direction I would like to go.
The second thing, is that I did some research on materials. I had 7 kinds of materials, 2 kinds of undercoat (which are needed for almost all materials if you want to draw/paint/print on it), 8 kinds of paint and 3 kinds of varnish/coating. Lots of combinations! Especially when there are also a lot of different techniques to it, from just layering it up too sanding inbetween every layer and sometime using one layer twice.

LOADS to do:
Scriptie layout, Website, Portfolio, Bachlore Project.... and and and....

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But I am less chaotic and I have a better plan now :) So thats already something.
More details coming up this week!

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Greenlight presentation. Here we come...

experimenting with all sorts of things on light and shadow

exploring a selfportrait

Half way through with my scriptie, but still loads to do.
Its a never ending story...

This took me a bit longer, than I thought it would. Here are already some fotos of my experiment. It was very hard to make good fotos, but the films are even better to see what I was busy with. The film will take longer, because a lot of them are shaky and I still need some music, plus there is lots to do.

This experiment was inspired by the artist Anthony McCall. One of his exhibitions was in Berlin, which is where I first saw his work.

Hope it becomes a bit clearer of what I am busy with.

 

The second day in London, I actually spend almost all day long at the Tate Modern Gallery. This gallery is one of the most wonderfull galleries I know. As there was a 15 week long performance/ interactive week, it was very inspireing.
One of the most inspiring for myself was the work from Juan Downey. He used the Allegory from Plato about the cave.

Quote " The Allegory presents, in brief form, most of Plato's major philosophical assumptions: his belief that the world revealed by our senses is not the real world but only a poor copy of it, and that the real world can only be apprehended intellectually; his idea that knowledge cannot be transferred from teacher to student, but rather that education consists in directing student's minds toward what is real and important and allowing them to apprehend it for themselves; his faith that the universe ultimately is good; his conviction that enlightened individuals have an obligation to the rest of society, and that a good society must be one in which the truly wise (the Philosopher-King) are the rulers."
see link: http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/allegory.html


It was a big dark room with nine people sitting with their backs to the entrance and meditating. Infront of each was a camera, which filmed each face. These films could be seen at the back of each person, on the boxes on which they were sitting. The meditators could see the shadows of the visitors.
This gave the effect of the Plato Allegory. It was so fascinating and since I had just read about Plato I knew what Juan Downey had in mind when he made the piece.
All in all london was a super creative and inspiring short trip. Good that I went!!! :)


Tomorrow I will be posting about my experiment with beamers and a fog machine. Inspired by the work of Anthony Mc Call.