Comments on: A Playful Stance — My Game Design London 2008 Talk

By: Leapfroglog - A Playful Stance — my Game Design London 2008 talk

Leapfroglog - A Playful Stance — my Game Design London 2008 talk — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:14:07 +0000

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By: Kars

Kars — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:38:05 +0000

"Just out of curiosity, is it really true that LEGO’s sales were adversely affected by overly specific kits/themes?"

Marek -- I don't know here you heard this nasty rumour. ;-) I've heard this from people who have done work with Lego. So it's not from the horse's mouth, but close to it. And I agree, all those themed Lego bits never did much for me. The most interesting thing about them was to see people reappropriating them in creations that had nothing to do with the original theme.

By: Marek

Marek — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:44:18 +0000

There's definitely a lot of room to explore the more freeform/tools-for-playing aspects in gaming, and I think there's a lot happening in that area right now. It's pretty exciting. Generally speaking it'd be a good thing for games to loosen up a little more often and give that poor little bird some room to breathe.

Just out of curiosity, is it really true that LEGO's sales were adversely affected by overly specific kits/themes? How has LEGO tried to fix that (I haven't kept up in recent years)? Having grown up playing with LEGO in a very freeform way, it always saddened me to see LEGO go towards more pre-baked stuff and movie license tie-ins that don't encourage creativity as much.

By: JONESY VISION- Jonesy's ideals on Game Design: Learning patterns: What’s difference between games and sports?

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 05:51:25 +0000

[...] transcript/speech, one of the speakers from the event: Here is the link if anyone is interested:http://leapfrog.nl/blog/archives/2008/11/17/a-playful-stance-my-game-design-london-2008-talk/Here is good point he made in his speech if you don’t fancy reading the whole thing:“ The [...]

By: Roo Reynolds - Playful

Roo Reynolds - Playful — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:06:22 +0000

[...] has shared his slides and transcript on his blog, and his slides on SlideShare. My [...]

By: Kars

Kars — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:13:02 +0000

Lego is a wonderful example. During my time in Denmark, I spoke to a designer who was involved with the re-imagination of part of the Lego line. He told me Lego had seen a sharp decline in sales once they started to churn out those overly specific medieval / space / etc. flavours.

I'm not advocating un- or non-design. I'm simply proposing a different way of evaluating design's value. One focused more on how adaptive the things we create are to the people working with them, in stead of how great their appeal to people is who haven't or won't ever use it.

By: Iskander Smit

Iskander Smit — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:25:00 +0000

Great talk again. I cannot agree more; we need to 'design' for exploration. From designing for (specific) use to designing for context.

Two thoughts pops in mind. What is the ultimate form of this design view? No design? The design is about the use of 'it'. But what is it. How far can you strip a tool from designed functions to give it the ultimate possibilities for shaping our own experiences?

And which are the design methods that fits this vision? At This happened we saw the example of non-design with the guys of Things. Is that the ultimate form? I don't think so; substantial minimal design for maximum use is the hardest thing to do...

Above all it is cynical and a shame that Lego is overspecifying the bricks nowadays...

By: knolleary » Blog Archive » Playful: The Morning After

knolleary » Blog Archive » Playful: The Morning After — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:11:19 +0000

[...] it. Sorry Kars, I look forward to rediscovering your talk. He has put a full transcript of his talk online. Thanks [...]