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I'm Mats Tijmes and I design towards a more playful and contemplative world.

Trained as a graphic designer and art director, I now create tools, communication and games. I express myself visually in various other mediums.

recommendations!

books
  • Finite and infinite games - James P. Carse
  • The Play Ethic - Pat Kane
  • Play Anything - Ian Bogost
  • De vermoeide samenleving - Byung-Chul Han
  • Palliative society- Byung-Chul Han
  • Playful Identities - Michiel de Lange
  • Building Blocks of Tabletop Game Design - Geoffrey Engelstein & Isaac Shalev
  • The World of Edena - Moebius
  • Hey Whipple, Squeeze This! - Luke Sullivan
  • Commonism - Nico Dockx & Pascal Gielen
  • Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
  • Post-Capitalist Desire - Mark Fisher
  • Burning Chrome - William Gibson
  • Roadside Picnics - Victor Muñoz Sanz & Alkistis Thomidou
  • Little Boy - Takashi Murakami
  • Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  • The gameful world - Sebastian Deterding
analog games
  • Agricola
  • Ahoy
  • Carcassonne
  • Cartographers
  • Catan
  • Dice Forge
  • Keyflower
  • Keyforge
  • Magic the Gathering
  • Spirit Island
digital games
  • Outward
  • Nier: Automata
  • Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
  • Overwatch
  • Dark Souls, Bloodborne
  • The Last of Us
  • Super Smash Brothers
  • Nuclear Throne
  • Hyperlight Drifter
  • Darkest Dungeon
  • Final Fantasy (Tactics, Chronicles, 14)
  • Ragnarok Online
  • Elite Beat Agents (EN&JAP)
  • Pokemon

    This is a very incomplete list, yet these hold significant importance to me for various reasons.
apps
  • Twine
  • Scapple
  • Scrivener
  • Visual Studio Code
  • PureRef
  • Trello
series
  • Mr. Robot
  • Mad Men
  • Black Mirror
  • Homeland
  • Curb Your Enthusiasm
  • Love, Death and Robots
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Cyberpunk: Edgerunners
  • Steins; Gate
  • Bojack Horseman
  • One Piece
  • Mushishi
  • Ping Pong the Animation
movies
  • Bladerunner
  • Ghost in the Shell
  • Lost in Translation
  • Nausicaa: Valley of the Wind
  • Dune
  • The Fifth Element
  • The Matrix
  • Star Wars
  • District 9
  • Lord of the Rings
  • Akira
  • Mad Max: Fury Road
  • Interstellar

Do you need assistance with creative work?

Yes, I do! Let's talk!
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