ATLANTIS GAMES
What is it about?
Atlantis Games was the first private limited
company to be founded under the licensed
agreement between NHTV Business and the
city of council of Breda.
The company develops entertainment and
serious/applied games for external clients.
Both profit and non-profit organizations may
approach Atlantis Games for the development
of games and apps on different platforms. The
company offers jobs to IGAD alumni, giving
them an opportunity to gain experience in
entrepreneurship before setting up their own
company. It also provides a number of
internships for IGAD students.
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Recent news
On the 23rd of January Alderman Bergkamp
launched an interactive projection that will be
shown in the Spanjaardsgat, Breda for the next
two years. It is a 3D projection showing
several different aspects connected to
Breda such as architecture and art. The
exciting aspect will include a live game, which
can be played with a free app on the walls of
the building. AKV I St. Joost (Avans) made the
artistic design of the projection. NHTV Game
Academy took care of the technical translation
and the interactive game in the projection.
Creative Lab
What is it about?
Creative Lab is an open forum, which strives to
create a synergy between theory and practice,
which explores collective ideas and reflects
upon the continuous flux of knowledge,
information and transformation of media.
A few times a year Creative Lab organizes
inspirational talks where students and alumni
share personal creative ideas they have
obtained either during their education or in
their working field. Companies are also
invited to share recent trends and developments in their industry. Creative Lab is also a
place where both creative thinkers and
creative designers work together on their own
ideas, turning them into reality.
Recent news
Recently the coordinator of Creative Lab,
Oscar Bastiaens, held a TEDx talk in Dordrecht
titled “The Super System of Signs”. It was about
the way people are becoming more dependent
on a system of signs helping us to understand
the world we are living in. Oscar is a researcher in the field of Digital Semiotics and his talk
is closely related to that topic. What happens
when we are unable to distinct the real from
the virtual? In the video of Oscar’s TEDx talk
shown above, you can find out how semiotics
can help us to draw the line.
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