Posts Tagged ‘creativity’

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 Comments Off

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 [...]

Adaptive Design and Transformative Play

In Articles on 31 January 2008 tagged adaptation, adaptive design, creativity, customization, game design, games, gaming, GD, generation c, interaction design, IxD, literacy, play, transformative play with 1 comment

Allowing people to change parts of your product is playful. It has also always ‘just’ seemed like a good thing to do to me. You see this with with people who become passionate about a thing they use often: They want to take it apart, see how it works, put it back together again, maybe [...]

Playyoo Goes Beta

In Articles on 12 December 2007 tagged casual, creativity, game creator, game design, games, GD, interaction design, IxD, mobile, personal expression, play, playyoo, portfolio, social, tools, web applications with 2 comments

Today Playyoo went beta. Playyoo is a mobile games community I have been involved with as a freelance interaction designer since july of this year. I don’t have time for an elaborate post-mortem, but here are some preliminary notes on what Playyoo is and what part I’ve played in its conception. Playyoo brings some cool [...]