If you think of extreme sport events in the Netherlands you think of Rotterdam. Every year the city hosts the Red Bull Air Race, the Go Fast X-Days, Rotterdam Racing and many other events. To emphasize it’s position as Extreme Sports City Rotterdam released this cool racing game.
The goal of the game is to race [...]
Today is Blog Action Day, an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post the same issue on the same day and to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. This years issue is poverty. But what has poverty to do with advergames?
Advergames are a kind of Serious [...]
The ongoing marketing campaign of Holland Casino (the Dutch national casino) focusses on funny sketches wherein tips are given about how to play in a casino. Tips like “only bluff in cases where you can pull it of” and “know where your chances lay”. In support of the tv-commercials Holland Casino now launched a high-budget [...]
komende zaterdag (de 18de) ben ik jarig en aangezien ik van alle kanten gevraagd werd of ik nog wensen had zet ik hier maar eventjes een lijstje neer.
Heb nog wel eventjes online gekeken naar een tof…meer
“Games and social networks are predicted to become the new hype, fusing communities and networks with playing against your friends, family and people you know (or don’t). Set aside the pure entertainment value, users also get to know their friends interests, strengths and weaknesses in a fun and interactive way. There are a lot of [...]
Dit jaar wilde ik mezelf een gaan ontwikkelen als public speaker en afgelopen week was het dan eindelijk zover. Ik mocht een gastcollege geven op de Hogeschool InHolland Amsterdam/Diemen (met dank aan Tessa Sterkenburg van The Next Speaker). Ik had 45 minuten om de 150 studenten die waren komen opdraven enthousiast te maken over advergames.
Ik [...]
Need some inspiration how to groom down-under? The Swedish Association for Sexuality Education(RFSU) helps out with this online shaving game!
The Game
Prune the bush and go wild! Whatever turns you on. This text invites the player to pick up razor, scissors and other grooming equipment and go at it. Although the gameplay feels a bit clunky, [...]
When you play a lot of online (branded) games as I do, you encounter a lot of advergames that still ask the player for their e-mail address before they are allowed to play. Of course I never give them my real address since I don’t want to be spammed to death by annoying newsletters. Instead [...]
In Sweden they still think the world is flat, or at the least that it’s a cube. Travellink, a Nordic travel agency, made a nice website which features a cubical world in a cool quiz game.
The Game
Around the World Race is a hybrid game which combines a quiz with an ability game. Goal is to [...]
Meet Hans Fugerlund, King of Chunga and leading star in KitKats’ new campaign in Australia. Chunga is Jenga gone KitKat and besides playing with a real stack of KitKats at home you can also play it online against Hans or other online players.
Chunga-struck Episode 1 : Meet Hans Fagerlund from Hans Fagerlund on Vimeo.
The Game
The [...]