Posts Tagged ‘generation c’

Designing a Mobile Social Gaming Experience for Gen-C

In Talks on 25 February 2008 tagged 2008, attention, casual, choice, conferences, events, experience design, game design, game developers conference, game systems, games, gaming, GD, GDC 2008, GDC Mobile 2008, generation c, interaction design, IxD, lectures, metagames, mobile, play, playyoo, presentations, san francisco, slides, social, social objects, Talks, user experience, UX, XD with 6 comments

Update 21-03-2008: I’ve added some images of slides to allow for some more context when reading the text. This is a rough transcript of my lecture at GDC Mobile 2008. In short: I first briefly introduce the concept of experience design and systems and then show how this influences my views of mobile casual games. [...]

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 [...]

My GDC Mobile 2008 Proposal: Accepted!

In Articles on 29 November 2007 tagged casual, conferences, connectedness, customization, game design, Game Developers Conference 2008, GDC 2008, GDC Mobile 2008, generation c, meta-games, mobile, personalization, playyoo, presentations, recombination, short-session, social, Talks with 3 comments

It doesn’t say so on the site yet, but I am on the program for next year’s GDC Mobile.1 Yesterday I got the email that my talk — titled Designing a Casual Social Gaming Experience for Generation C — has been accepted. To be honest I was quite surprised. I work in the blurry overlap [...]

More Than Useful — Outline of My Interaction 08 Talk

In Articles on 27 October 2007 tagged emergence, game design, GD, generation c, Interaction 08, interaction design, IxD, IxDA, play, presentations, products, storytelling, Talks, user experience, UX with no comments

A while back I was happy to hear that my submission for Interaction 08 is accepted. This will be the first conference organised by the IxDA. Obviously I’m proud to be part of that. I’ll probably be building my talk a post at a time on this blog, more or less like I did with [...]