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Jeroen is a playability researcher at valsplat. Goal: help developers making games more playable, usable and more fun. How? By organizing playtests where gaming behavior and player experience is observed and analyzed. Then sparring with developers how to improve the game. Jeroen lives and works in Amsterdam.

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Jul 28, 2010
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