During 3 days, I was in the Devonshire with 11 friends of mine. We had a beautiful home in Halberton.

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Today, I went to the train station to catch my 8:11 train. I was stressed so when I ran when I arrived at the train station to be exactly at the good time. Then, I saw the panel and the train was eleven minutes late. I told myself: "Damn, why did I run? I'll have to wait eleven minutes now"

Then the announcer explained the situation: "Someone threw itself in front of the train."

It is common to do a one-minute silence for someone who is dead, but for me, it was eleven minutes. This person's life made me lost eleven minutes in my daily schedule.

How do we approach such a situation? We don't care, because we have a train to take. His life compared to the 7.3 billions people on Earth is negligible. If we go more local, compared to the 8 millions Swiss, it is still insignificant. I mean there are in average 226 children who will be born today, so 1 against 226 is still low. Compared to the 1.4 millions Züricher, still little. Then when you arrive to the level of his family, it becomes important. There are brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, cousins, uncles, aunts, … waiting for him/her to arrive home tonight.

For me, it is that simple. The value of the life of this person who threw itself in front of the train is 11 minutes. No more, no less…

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For the ETH course "Game Programming", we were in an arcade pinball bar. The ETH course is a cooperation from ZHdK and ETH with support of Disney Research Project. The goal of the course is to create a game in a semester. The theme of the game should be link to "evolution". I will talk more about my experience about this course in an other post.

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So, I just began one week ago a Master in Game Design at the Zürich University of Art. We are 6 students in the 1. Semester and there are also 5 students in the 3. Semester, with also 40 students Design Master Students. The group atmosphere is really great, because we have different courses in common.

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Nordic Game Jam is the biggest local game jam in the world. It happened in Copenhagen, Denmark.  731 game developers went to make a game in 48 hours.

I went there without expecting something, just meet people and make games. I found a couch-surfing by Mike, one of the organizers of the jam.

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