Posts Tagged ‘experience’

Tools for Having Fun

In Articles on 18 April 2008 tagged casual gamers, Edge, experience, fun, game design, games, gaming, hardcore gamers, magazines, play, PONG, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter IV, tools, Vice with Comments Off

One of the nicer things about GDC was the huge stack of free magazines I took home with me. Among those was an issue of Edge, the glossy games magazine designed to look good on a coffee table next to the likes of Vogue (or whatever). I was briefly subscribed to Edge, but ended up [...]

Learning About Emergence From Games

In Articles on 1 August 2007 tagged complexity, design, emergence, experience, game design, games, gaming, GD, Go, IA, information architecture, interaction design, interactivity, IxD, play, pleasure, The Game of Life, user experience, UX with 7 comments

I’m still trying to get a grip on why I think games are such a good reference point for IAs and IxDs. I’ll try to take another stab at it in this post. Previously I wrote about how games might be a good way to ‘sell’ algorithmic architectures to your client. Even if you’re not [...]