Lode Ameije: The Multi-Timer and friends

Lode has no lack of ideas and an urge to continuously start new projects. VMMF has become a nice annual deadline to finish at least some things up that would otherwise be abandoned in a semi-finished state; Lode gets a lot of energy from showing off everything he made.

The MultiTimer is a game clock. Chess clocks are used to time games with two players, but many games with more players would greatly benefit from a time constraint, too! That is were the MultiTimer comes in. The maximum duration of the game is set in the beginning, and knowing how long a game takes gives you the opportunity to play some games in a spare moment without ruining later activities. It keeps the game tempo high, and enables people with different skill levels to have an exciting game together by giving the better players less time. The MultiTimer has changed a lot since last year, and has transformed from an “it-can-do-everything” device to a “you-don’t-need-2-hours-of-explanation-to-understand-it” device.