Notes - Perceptor

august 30, 2013 – casper

This is week 160.

Quiet, still
You feel there's nothing going on

With half of the studio on vacation, things have been quiet over the past weeks. Nevertheless, we made some steady progress on a couple of interesting projects.

Puck Verkade asked us to create her a new website, and besides being a talented artist, she’s also a great person to work with. We expect the website to launch in the second half of September.

Also, we’re partnering with World Press Photo to exhibit their Multimedia Contest in Rio de Janeiro. At this pilot exhibition we’ll be trying out a couple of new things, a Twitter-based guestbook app for iPad being one of them.

Lastly, work continues on Crowdpilot, an incredibly exciting project. We’re still in the process of overcoming some serious technical hurdles, but once we have nailed those, your dates, arguments and meetings will never be the same. Ever.

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july 26, 2013 – casper

This is week 155.

Like almost every design problem, making a game first and foremost comes down to telling a story. The story Perloo is trying to convey may be a weird, incoherent story that’s impossible to grasp – it still is a story. And thus we we’re honored when writer Niels ’t Hooft payed us a visit last week to get his hands wet on Perloo. We met Niels while working on Ripple Effect, the pilot game we designed for Shell this spring. Niels just interviewed Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto (Super Mario’s father!) so we figured he would be truly impressed by our game, hehe.

What impact Perloo made on him we don’t know, but his visit was very valuable. Niels was the most skilled player we’ve seen so far, and besides his excellent tips and remarks, it provided for a good opportunity to have some exquisite doughnuts and coffee.

Thanks, Niels!

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