Geert Verhoeff

making code, visuals and things

recent posts

  • New theme added to Game With Balls: History

    New theme added to Game With Balls: History

    While making Game With Balls I looked at many other mazes and it hit me for adding a new theme. It is just a shame you cannot play the mazes and labyrinths made hundreds, or even thousands, of years ago. So now 20 of them are added as a new theme to Game With Balls! Turn and twist the Steam Deck to maybe get a glimpse of how they experienced them.

    Historically mazes were used for storytelling or meditation. Especially that last one I tried to incorporate in these new levels. Just not thinking about things around you, but a small minute just wondering.

    These levels will also be in the Switch release of Game With Balls that will be coming out tomorrow!

  • A factory for Pudge – ESL ONE

    A factory for Pudge – ESL ONE

    Client: EFG
    March 2026 – Unreal Engine 5

    For ESL ONE at DreamHack Birmingham 2026, I was asked to bring the factory of Pudge, the Dota 2 character central to the event’s theme, to life on the stage. Using Unreal Engine 5, creating this little dioramaesque effect. Adding small little references, puns, and other things that can be triggered by the operators on site. I explicitely did not put them in the top video as then you just should have been on site to see them. Always fun to create a world!

    You can watch the actual broadcast of the first day here, or more on the different channels of EFG.

  • Spotify Jukebox – Failed Projects

    Spotify Jukebox – Failed Projects

    There are so many projects I worked on that never saw the light of day… Little ideas that got to the prototype or research phase, but… for some reason could just not be finished or released. This is one of these projects: Spotify Jukebox.

    To give a little backstory on what sparked this project. It was around the time that 3FM Serious Request was starting up. If you are Dutch, you cannot miss this, but for other people it is a period before Christmas where you can donate to the radio station for a charity and they will play the song that you requested. There are a lot of other activities/auctions where people collect money for the cause and there is a glass house where the DJ’s are locked up.

    When talking with my friends, I also remembered a random pub in Boston I once visited where you, through an app, could buy tokens and in turn you could spend the tokens to queue songs on the playlist. Obviously you had to buy a pack of tokens like a real mobile app, so it ended up with me queuing up Never Gonna Give You Up for the remainder of the tokens I had when we left for the night.

    So why not bring this to parties and have people chose a song for charity…. Spotify Jukebox was born.

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  • Creating my little flipbook: KroegGezeik

    Creating my little flipbook: KroegGezeik

    A little idea that has been lingering around for literally years. A physical flipbook of just one particular wall in my regular pub, De Voortuin in Utrecht: the men’s toilet. So for roughly 2 years I have been taking a picture whenever I took a piss, as everyone does, until I accumulated enough pictures for an interesting animation, where every frame is different.

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