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Fly-A-Way: A Board Game by Tuber

Tuber’s love for design and storytelling has brought them to a completely new place—the world of board games.

Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma: Available for Preorder

Difference Engine is incredibly proud to present Melanie Lee & Arif Rafhan’s new middle grade graphic novel, Amazing Ash & Superhero Ah Ma!

Events

BoOoOoks!

What would you say to a river demon in Tokyo? Find out what happens in Daryl Qilin Yam’s Kappa Quartet!

Announcement

Difference Engine's Feature in The Straits Times

Saw some familiar faces from the Potato family in the news today? Difference Engine was featured in The Straits Times!

Opinions

Data Vis Spotlight: Maps

This post first appeared in Kontinentalist’s newsletter, Notes from the Equator. Kontinentalist, a Potato company, monitors Asia’s latest developments and uses maps to tell compelling stories. A map is one of the data visualisations that needs no introduction. Maps have existed for a long time, and

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The Makers Club: Digital Launch

Difference Engine recently published their first book in a new graphic novel series that aims to inspire kids to explore STEAM topics and maker culture.

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The Last Days of American Crime: Netflix Launch

Executively produced by Matlock Stone in partnership with Radical Studios, The Last Days of American Crime is now on Netflix!

Case Studies

Coding a Kontinentalist Story

In my eight months of working with Kontinentalist as a front-end web developer, I’ve worked on five hard-coded stories and a handful of auxiliary data vis for other normal scroll stories. This roughly equates to one and a half months of work to produce a hard-coded story from conception

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Restraining Orders: How language policies shape our identity

Does the language we speak influence who we are? Many seem to agree that it does (though there is still debate on the extent to which this occurs). One thinks, for example, of the expected connections between speaking Mandarin and being of Chinese descent. This can be liberating – experiencing and

Case Studies

How I write data-driven stories

I’ve been a writer for almost two years now at Kontinentalist, a data-driven editorial studio in Singapore. In that time, I’ve interviewed my fair share of prospective interns, writers, and editors. Almost always, when asked why they’re interested in the position, our interviewees answer something along the

Case Studies

Introducing CaseStudy

Through on-the-ground observations, The Patatas created 'CaseStudy', a cost effective digital solution that is meant to operate in unfavourable conditions.

Events

Final Creative Teams for Sound: A Comics Anthology

Difference Engine is impossibly excited to announce their first comics anthology featuring writers and illustrators who are unabashedly and proudly Southeast Asian.

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Staring at the Sun

The moon sometimes just gets in the way, casting a shadow over everyone on what would be just another day. On December 26,2019, a rare annular solar eclipse, known as a ring of fire, was visible from the rooftop of the Potato office. Prompted by the strangeness of this

Announcement

Tuber wins gold for Challenge Magazine

A big congratulations to Tuber for bagging the Content Marketing Awards' Best Government Publication!

Events

Tech for Good Hackathon

Members of various companies within Potato Productions came together to participate in The Codette Project’s Tech for Good Hackathon.

Announcement

The Patatas Shares Journey

Thanks to the traction The Patatas' initiatives has garnered in schools, the project is now endorsed by the local government in Philippines!

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Singlish: You know anot?

In celebration of Singapore's 54th birthday, Jala, our translation platform, covered various aspects of Singlish on their blog.

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Tuber x The T Project Partnership

Potato companies and partners are coming together to support the transgender community in Singapore. They are now collaborating with the T project!

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Know Your T

Know the difference between gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and biological sex?