PC PowerPlay recently published their issue #168. The magazine honored the Global Game Jam 2009 with an extended article on the event and its resulting games, including Pulse. They were even as kind to cite two of our original creators. Thanks Daniel!

Better stay tuned for the upcoming plans on the Global Game Jam 2010! Aside from that, Virtual Fairground will be attending Gamescom Cologne to present their existing projects.

Pulse is still in the pitching process ever since we shipped it to publishers. As you can see in the picture, we’re still proud examples on one of the banners of Taskforce Innovation Utrecht during last week’s NLGD Festival of Games.

The final adjustments are being made down at the Virtual Fairground headquarters to have a playable demo that doesn’t require one of us to babysit while someone’s playing. We finally get to send the demo over to several publishers that have shown interest in Pulse at the GDC and want to try it out for  themselves! Wish us luck!Here’s some recent concept art that Samar made for the GDC demo version. Hope everyone likes it!

BoingBoing.net invited me over to their studio in San Francisco today. I had a great time meeting their team and discussing Global Game Jam, Pulse and the Game Developer’s Conference with their host Matt Kirsch.

Big thanks to BoingBoing.net for closely supporting initiatives like the Global Game Jam and for having me. Be sure to also check out their coverage of the GDC!

Our revamped GDC demo is being showcased at the Holland Pavilion, so be sure to check it out if you got the time. Talk about good publicity!

Thanks to the people from the Holland Pavilion and the Global Game Jam for making this public showcase possible!

The Dutch delegation has been giving us a lot of great support. Seems like they also can’t get enough of the original art by our art guy Samar Louwes. The first concept just sticks really well.

And yes, that is the demo beeing played in the back. You can find it at the Holland Pavilion on the GDC Expo floor from Wednessday till Friday. it’s right next to the Nokia booth.

So here are Maarten, Duncan and Ilya from Virtual Fairground standing on my right at the Harmonix party in a dirty rock bar called RockIt in San Francisco. We met the guys from Harmonix and MTV, had some beers and played some Rockband. Good times.

Wish the rest of the team was here! Miss you guys!

Big thanks to Harmonix, MTV and Reverb PR for having us at their gig! We had a grand time! Also thanks to pro photographer Weber Shih for taking our picture!

Pulse sure was a popular topic during the IGDA’s presentation on the Global Game Jam. Co-founder Susan Gold explained how the event was initially organized to create a sense of community that reached out to game design students around the world and also offer people new opportunities. Guess that worked out quite well huh?

Also, she announced that the next Global Game Jam will be held on January 29th 2010 and will not be held during either the Super Bowl or Chinese New Year. Good to know!

The words ‘ Pulse’, ‘ Utrecht’ and ‘The Netherlands’  fell often. Thanks for that! We’re very grateful for the support and attention!

Control Magazine also covered this panel (in Dutch), so be sure to check out their comments!

Check out these hip last minute hot-off-the-press cards we prepared. Funky fresh right?

Intended for anyone at the GDC who has either not heard of us yet or will not get a chance to try out the new demo first hand. There’s always a tomorrow!

Too bad we can’t give you a sneak peak of the revamped demo just yet. Unless you head down to the Game Developers Conference next week. It looks amazing though. Really does.

If you can read Dutch, tune in on Bashers.nl next week to follow team member Vlad and Virtual Fairground on their GDC adventure: Pitchin’ Pulse

Most amazing stories, videos and pictures will also appear here, in English. Hurrah!