30/04/2026
I’m working with Lizzie and Jaap and there is great synergy among us. The theme of our project is about the impossibility of obtaining and appointment to process the spanish foreign residency card (NIE).
Although the process is very straight forward and you are supposed to be able to do it stress free, it looks people who charge you to help you do it are very skillful to get all appointments available. So, people are not able to make a very simple paperwork.
We designed a video game that you can’t win based on the look and feel of 80’s game, PacMan. With this retro look, A PacMan needs to chase “an appointment”, which is not too difficult. But if you can catch it, a sudden glitch happens and sends you back to the starting point to chase another appointment.
The whole process was a lot of fun. The last day of April our first community show was held at Cúpula. All groups presented their work to our teachers and fellow students. Our group did a good job presenting our PacMan game, all programmed in Processing, and it seemed everyone enjoyed trying, unsuccessfully, to get a NIE appointment. :D
