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A Playful Stance — My Game Design London 2008 Talk

In Talks on 17 November 2008 tagged architecture, conferences, control, design, emergence, game design, Game Design London, GD, GDL, interaction design, IxD, learning, media, play, Playful 08, playgrounds, presentations, skateboarding, slides, Talks, tools, underspecification with 8 comments

A while ago I was interviewed by Sam Warnaars. He’s researching people’s conference experiences; he asked me what my most favourite and least favourite conference of the past year was. I wish he’d asked me after my trip to Playful ‘08, because it has been by far the best conference experience to date. Why? Because [...]

Urban Procedural Rhetorics — Transcript of My TWAB 2008 Talk

In Talks on 27 May 2008 tagged 2008, alternate reality games, architecture, ARGs, cameras, cities, conferences, control, culture, events, everyware, flash mobs, free running, freedom, game design, GD, graffiti, hoaxes, interaction design, IxD, LED throwies, Mario Question Blocks, mobility, physical computing, play, politics, presentations, privacy, procedural rhetoric, Provo, public space, security, September 12, skateboarding, slides, street art, surveillance, Talks, The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility, TWAB, TWAB 2008, TWAB08, ubicomp, ubiquitous computing, UFOs, urbanism, user experience, UX, Zona Incerta with 21 comments

This is a transcript of my presentation at The Web and Beyond 2008: Mobility in Amsterdam on 22 May. Since the majority of paying attendees were local I presented in Dutch. However, English appears to be the lingua franca of the internet, so here I offer a translation. I have uploaded the slides to SlideShare [...]

Where Social Software Should Go Next — Habitat’s Lessons

In Articles on 21 April 2008 tagged control, creativity, evolution, game design, Habitat, interaction design, MMOGs, moderation, play, social software with no comments

MMOGs have not progressed since 1990. Neither has social software.

Well maybe a little, but not much. At least that’s what I’m lead to believe after reading another wonderful essay in The Game Design Reader—a book I like to dip into once in a while to read whatever catches my fancy.

In The Lessons of Lucasfilm’s Habitat1 [...]