This website is under construction.
Yes, I know, it's a terrible thing to say because who does this nowadays? Websites are always under construction. And with agile development and continuous delivery they won't stop being under development ever again.
But I'm playing around with platforms, so yes, this simple page replaces the simple, unused site that was once here.
Once I'm done playing, if ever, I might actually make something of this.

Home of Erwin Bell, Game Designer
I teach students how to design games methodically and research game design theory. I advise game publishers on matters of game design, testing games in development for the qualities of the game mechanics, actions and feelings, research and advise on whether to support a game is viable (green lighting).
 

A warning about NFTs and what to do about it

Even though I am a game designer, I am also interested in technology and thus I'm educated in the technology of crypto. The hype is gone, the world moved on to other new exciting technologies (as did I), I still think the technology behind crypt has use cases, but there's still a big weakness in crypto and NFTs. Every NFT is not actually non-fungible. Or better said, the asset is not non-fungible. Meaning your NFT can become worthless in a fraction of a second.
Yes, a fraction of a second, the time the Ethereum network needs to process your NFT is not in play, nor that of any other DLT.
Every NFT, is just a link. Just like an address you put into your browser to visit a site. When you own an NFT, you own a link to the asset, not the asset itself.
That asset can be removed or changed, which might leave you with something much different than the asset, maybe with nothing.

This is a big issue to be solved, the prices of NFTs have gotten very high on the peak of the ridiculous hype, with the current tech, all NFT's are worth nothing.
You do NOT own an asset, you do NOT posses an asset when you own and posses an NFT.
A solution needs to be developed

We need an NFA, a Non-Fungible Asset.
The NFA itself is stored in the DLT. The actual data, the binary data, encrypted or unencrypted, is stored in the particles of the DLT.

An example of how to do it:
If your DLT has the possibility of a text message, you can store hex code in it. The message can also contain an index, which points to all the particles needed.
Now the NFA can be constructed from the messages in the particles.

I'm sure far smarter people can come up with better solutions.

It's progessing towards the game industry and other industries

Above problem is in concept progressing towards other industries. This has been lingering for a long time due to digital distribution, and Ubisoft triggered the Stop Killing Games movement before by taking the game The Crew offline, but it's getting worse and it's time we make it stop.
Sony decided to not do physical games in the future, this prevents people from having a choice and it let games become NFTs but without the crypto backend. And Sony has been putting media offline already, people who BOUGHT movies now cannot watch them anymore because Sony put them offline. THAT IS STEALING BY SONY.
A license to play a game, to watch a movie, to consume any digital product, should be permanent except stated VERY CLEARLY and CONCISE otherwise AT THE BUY BUTTON, not in small letters hidden in some looooooonnnnng terms and agreements that no human is able to read properly.
Or dark patterns that trick people in buying against their will. Start buying your media physically again, start buying your games on GOG which allow you to download the actual game and put it on physical media yourself. That feature should be a law.