Just Playing
Over the past several months Simon has spent many hours per day 100%-ing Baba Is You and studying Baba Is You related content. He also just enjoyed creating his own … Continue reading Just Playing
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Over the past several months Simon has spent many hours per day 100%-ing Baba Is You and studying Baba Is You related content. He also just enjoyed creating his own … Continue reading Just Playing
This weekend the kids and I went to their native Amsterdam to see our good old friends and do a protest against the war in Ukraine. I projected my unfinished … Continue reading Projection Against the War in Ukraine
We went to Simon and Neva’s native Amsterdam this week where Simon had an appointment to donate his hair to cancer patients. Sub 22! You know, J perm is truly … Continue reading Speed, Looks and Seasonal Baking Update
We say we all know Tetris, but we ignore one crucial part: the goal. If you think about it, it’s not obvious what the goal of Tetris should be. On … Continue reading A New Obsession
I have known for a while that Neva thinks in colors. Every time she stuns me by reciting a paragraph from a book we read months ago or a TV … Continue reading Neva’s Elemental Language
I’m too excited to sleep. I’m excited about the game. I’m excited about our future games. I’m excited about the games we will play. And I’m excited about the milkshake … Continue reading The Game
Our summer vacation in Southern France is over but our daily life continues to radiate freedom to learn and explore at our own pace. Swimming was one of those things … Continue reading Free to Swim
It was Simon’s birthday yesterday and as this year is all about cubing, yesterday was no exception. It has sort of become a tradition to celebrate his birthday at our … Continue reading I want a Rubik’s Cube Cake for my birthday!
They worked on this together for a week and voila, here is their first real app, a calculator with beautiful color design, which they called “Colorful Calculator”. They also came … Continue reading The kids made their first app: Colorful Calculator
Simon was so desperate to get his new set of speed cubes that he made another cube simulation in JavaScript, this time the funny cube called Square-1 that can shape-shift. … Continue reading Square-1 Simulation and New Cubes
My learning to make multiplayer games consists of decreasingly failed attempts which eventually become successful attempts! One more obsession these days is the Paper.io game, a strategic game aiming at … Continue reading Entering the Multiplayer Game Dev Zone