On Tuesday we went to Den Haag central station to test our first prototype, hangman. Gijs from Dropstuff and Emile, our animation guy, went with us to play a couple of rounds on the Dropstuff screen that’s placed in the central station hall. Everything went better than expected. Of course some bugs appeared but no major ones. We tested the visuals and it seems the videos from Open Images work pretty well on the LED screen. We were a bit afraid that the videos would show up as white ‘stains’ on the black, but they were very visible. Pleasant surprise! We also noticed that some visual styles (coloured, moving lines) work better than others (white background is a no-go, black is best). Maarten from Sound & Vision joined us for the last hour and seemed very pleased with the progress.

We brought a camera and Helene and Daan created this short clip to give you an impression of the day:

Click here to view the embedded video.

All in all, Den Haag was a fruitful adventure. We’ve got plenty of bugs to fix and design elements to work out. The design part will be in the hands of Emile and Roxanne. Next week we’ll be meeting up with them to discuss progress. As soon as we’ve got some first visuals we’ll post them on the blog.