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The Game Beyond is now Live on Udemy! Over the last few years I've gotten so much positive feedback about my Game Design workshop that I knew I had to find a way to scale it. That moment has arrived! Using the education platform of Udemy, you can now take The Game Beyond course on on your computer, or take it with you on most smartphones and tablets. Read more about how you can get an early bird discount.
Join me this Friday in The Vondelpark. The past couple months I've been teaching at the Media College Amsterdam, and the students have created some fun interactive art pieces to be enjoyed during this media festival. It should be Pixel Perfect.
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Sometimes a game comes along that defies all other preconceptions of what a game was before. It is becomes an emotional experience that is etched into the mind. This was the case when I played Remembering from Monobanda. It is an exploration of sound and landscape as you travel through dimensions, filled with beauty. Trust me. Download it, take an hour for yourself and enjoy it. You will remember this game.
When you are in Amsterdam in the coming month, make sure to go and check Itamar's latest art project called "Food Chain Project". He has made an incredible exhibition of plaster molds from everything he consumed in a year.
Itamar actually used a christmas gift from another friend Gabe Bauer, that I got him in the states one year to make this popcorn piece. An Mi-Ah another talented artist has been helping the replication of all the work. It is amazing the detail of the popcorn on these molds. Little behind the scenes note there.
Make sure to go and check it out. More information can be found here.
Gamification has become a very hot topic for many companies, startups and organizations. Most people want to learn some basics of game design to help them with creating better applications, platforms and services. Wouldn't it be great if you could do a crash course to learn the basics of Game Design?
Many of you know that I have been teaching New Media and Game Design at the HKU for many years now ...
I've been using the UP by Jawbone since January to monitor my exercise and my sleep patterns. Overall it is a nice device for collecting my movement, however it does not give very accurate information while riding my bicycle. I found a solution for this problem.
The top 5 apps and services I use on a regular basis on my mac. From boosting my desktop speakers to better copy pastes, these apps will have your mac laptop running on steroids so you can get your stuff done better and more effectively. Boom, Evernote, Lastpass and Dropbox. Read more to see why...
Do you love Candy Crush Saga? Can't stop playing? Want more lives to keep solving those puzzles? Here are a few tips to keep those lives from running out to quickly.
There is a lot of buzz nowadays about bitcoin. Some people are saying it is a good investment. But I'm sure you are wondering how it works. I've been following bitcoin on and off for a couple of years now, and it seems it is starting to tip into the mainstream media with lots of rumors running around it. Before you get caught up in the rumors, have a look at what bitcoin is. This is a great video that explains how the system works. Many people are switching due to the distrust that is forming around defaulting and corrupt banking systems. Could bitcoin be the answer, or just a stepping stone to a new type of currency?
This is a surprisingly easy way that employers can hack into a former employee's LinkedIn account. They can change anything they want, including password and the former employee wouldn't know until it is to late. This was a discovery I made today when...
I received a phone call from one of my former colleagues. She was having trouble changing information on the company's LinkedIn page. Seeing as how I used to be one of the admins, she tried to login with my company e-mail. At one point I had added my company e-mail as a contact. I no longer use that e-mail and thought the account was deactivated. However, like with most companies, the mail account can be remade or retrieved.
Now it is important to note that I originally registered with a different e-mail to linkedIn and had a different primary e-mail address than my company e-mail. What I did not know, was that if you have an e-mail address associated to your profile account, you can login using that e-mail as a username.
So she had my username. Then the password was all that was needed. For this a simple password recovery sent to the company e-mail was all that was needed to reset the password and voila, she was in my account. But unfortunately I was no longer admin of the page, so she had to start all over. She was nice enough to call me and tell me what my password had been reset too. To be honest I was really amazed that she was able to do this so easily as she is not someone who I would call technical.
So how to you keep your old employer from taking your account? Make sure to remove any past e-mails from your account. This took a little searching to try and find where it was.
1. Hover on your name in the top right corner, and select settings from the drop-down menu.
2. Under your profile picture click on Primary E-mail address CHANGE/ADD
3. Now remove any former e-mail addresses. Try to keep it to just 2 e-mails max.
That's it, your a bit safer now. I hope you enjoyed this post. If you did please share it with friends or colleagues who would find it useful.
