Posts Tagged ‘aesthetics’

Playing With Complexity — Slides and Notes for My NLGD Festival of Games Talk

In Talks on 9 July 2008 tagged aesthetics, Ben Fry, collective intelligence, complexity, data visualization, dataviz, emergence, exploration, Festival of Games 2008, frivolity, futures, game design, games, GD, happiness hacking, information design, information graphics, information visualization, infoviz, interaction design, IxD, Jane McGonigal, languages, ludic fallacy, NLGD, personal informatics, play, prediction, prescription, Stamen Design, supercontext, utility with 14 comments

When the NLGD Foundation invited me to speak at their anual Festival of Games I asked them what they would like me to discuss. “Anything you like,” was what they said, essentially. I decided to submit an abstract dealing with data visualization. I had been paying more and more attention to this field, but was [...]

What Should a Casual MMOG Feel Like?

In Articles on 6 December 2007 tagged aesthetics, casual, emergence, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, massively multiplayer online games, MMOGs, MMOs, PMOGs, Second Life, Shigeru Miyamoto, short-session, SL, virtual worlds, World of Warcraft, WoW with 8 comments

I’m finding myself in the starting phases of designing a casual MMOG (or virtual world, if you prefer that term). When I say design, I mean determining the structure and behaviour of the world — interaction design, in other words. It’s an interesting challenge (and a significant change from designing mobile games, to say the [...]

UX and the Aesthetics of Interactivity

In Articles on 27 July 2007 tagged aesthetics, game design, games, gaming, GD, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, play, user experience, UX with 2 comments

I’ve been trying to regularly post some thoughts on the topic of playful IA here. Previously I blogged about how games could be a useful frame for thinking about complex algorithmic architectures. Last week I posted some thoughts on the application of game mechanics in web apps. There, Rahul was kind enough to point me [...]