Archive for December, 2010

Winter holiday in Holland

It's New Year's Eve and I am sitting next to the fire place at my parents' home. This year we decided to spend the Christmas holidays in Europe, after spending the last 3 Christmases in China. Not leaving China during the Christmas season means no holiday feeling at all, because there are no Christmas holidays and I normally just keep on working. At least being away from Shanghai for 2 weeks or so gives you a partial holiday feeling: because work continues I still spent too much time on my...
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After 5 years it’s time for a change

After 5 years it's time for a change. I am not talking about my 5-year marriage, but about my business activities. 5 years ago I set up Spil Games Asia (at that time called Spill Group Asia), starting out as a 1-person company in January 2006 and now in December 2010 with over 100 employees in our Shanghai office. Today it was announced to the Spil Games crew worldwide that I decided to step down as CEO on February 1 next year. I took that decision already a long time ago, but it took quite...
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The most difficult flash game in the world?

Our game studio makes a lot of flash games and I try to play most of them. So when I came across "The most difficult flash game in the world" on Twitter today I could not resist to try it out. I have to admit that I can't finish many of the games that we make at Spil Games, so I didn't expect a good result. The game starts with a screen telling you that "You are QWOP, our small nation's sole representative at the Olympic Games. Ideally you will run 100 meters but our training program was...
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Job Opening: Commercial Manager Kids Online Store @ UnitedStyles.com

United Styles (www.unitedstyles.com) is an exciting new online kids fashion store where kids and parents can design kids clothes in 3D. We are looking for a commercial / sales manager in our Shanghai head office, preferably a mother who wants to use her commercial and management capabilities to grow our business. Main responsibilities: Responsible for growing the sales of our web shop (sales worldwide with initial focus on Europe) Manage day to day operations of the kids brand ...
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