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I originally wrote down these thoughts on March 6, 2024, a short while after having read Victor Papanek’s Design for the Real World for the first time. Everything that exists must work according to the rules of the fundamental forces that it is built on top of. This consequentially means that patterns and processes that…
Memento mori Der folgende Text ist derselbe, den ich nach Phil’s Tod in das Gedenkbuch geschrieben hab, welches das Game Dev Graz Team nach seiner Beerdigung im Jahre 2023 seiner Familie überreicht hat. Hey Phil, wir kannten uns ja schon eine ganze Weile. Auch wenn wir uns nicht so nahe standen wie manch andere sind…
In April 2023, I took some time out of my busy life to write two Wikipedia articles (major parts of them at the time that is) about Broken Rules, the Austrian video game developer, and one of their games. You can find the articles here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Rules https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbon:_Beyond_the_Trees
On January 29, CE 2014, I posted an announcement for an event called “Indie Game Community Meetup Graz” on the social media platform Twitter (now called X), aimed at attracting independent game developers and indie game enthusiasts, to build up the local community. I had also designed a digital poster for the occasion, so that…
I was at a store recently to buy some art supplies, and just so happened to come across this. What a peculiar arrangement of balloon letters. I wonder who would do such a thing.
Looking at it right now (on 17.10.2025, CE), both after reading Design for the Real World and The Green Imperative by Victor J. Papanek, as well as Design is Storytelling by Ellen Lupton, and Design Justice by Sasha Costanza-Chock et al., I have this thought in my head that a sort of central issue with…
The following are a few cartoony doodles I originally posted on Twitter at some point. They show Joey at various locations making selfies with some of her friends. The jokes only really make sense in context. Which, due to how Twitter kinda got ruined, is now hardly possible.
The following is a list of words that I’ve come up with at some point. I sometimes can’t remember when or where it was, and it may also be that someone else has come up with them before me. In any case, you may use them in any of your work as you like. In…