Webstock Trading Card Game – final wrap-up

This blogpost was sitting in a text file on my hard drive for quite a while now and I finally finished it last night.
It’s going to be the final wrap-up of the Webstock 09 trading card game, Minty and I’ve run at the conference. Besides pushing out the complete results table, I also want to [...]

Transforming Pamela Fox :)

Just some more insights into running the Webstock Trading Card Game
When we planned the cards, photos of the speakers served as templates for the beautiful comic faces on the cards. At some point late the week before last the final layouts and everything were sent off to the printer and Mike dropped off [...]

We’ve done it again – Webstock Trading Card Game

Some people might remember back to the webDU conference and the Trading Card Game that was run during the conferece. I’ve blogged about it back then and sneak-previewed my card.
Now, Nectarine and Ventego did it again and we’re running a complete new version of the game at Webstock 09 in Wellington, New Zealand. Ruleset by [...]

Flash-based game suite on Facebook

Today I’ve met with Dan Milward for lunch. Dan owns a company here in Wellington (Instinct) that’s pretty deep in developing a game creation engine for Flash and particularly Flash Lite games. I’m pretty impressed, it’s a very nice tool and there’s an online version of it available on Facebook.
I personally can see a lot [...]

webDU 2008 Trading Card Game

As you all know, webDU (formerly known as MXDU) is some sort of a special event for me. Besides the facts that it coined Diane’s and my love for the southern hemisphere, that we’ve got married one day before MXDU 2004 (actually on the n-th birthday of Geoff “Legendary Creature” Bowers who was also my [...]