Posts Tagged ‘media’

Are Games Media or Design Objects?

In Articles on 15 January 2010 tagged criticism, Dave Malouf, design, discussions, Edge, Frank Lantz, games, Matt Jones, meaning, media, play, rules, twitter with 4 comments

In a recent post on the Edge blog – which, if you consider yourself a games designer, you absolutely must read – Matt Jones asks: “Why should pocket calculators be put on a pedestal, and not Peggle?” He writes about the need for games to be appreciated and critiqued as design objects. He points out [...]

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 10 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 [...]

Three Cool Projects Out of the Art, Media and Technology Faculty

In Articles on 1 February 2007 tagged art, education, game design, HKU, interaction design, KMT, media, projects, technology with Comments Off

So a week ago I visited a project market at the Art, Media and Technology faculty in Hilversum which is part of the Utrecht School of Arts and offers BA and MA courses in Interaction Design, Game Design & Development and many others. The range of projects on show was broad and wonderfully presented. It [...]

Rough Notes for Mika Raento – Zero-Effort Media Use

In Articles on 1 June 2006 tagged events, media, metadata, mobile, Reboot 8 with Comments Off

What happens if media capture equals media annotation, archival, sharing and presentation? Hypothesis: Zero effort in annotation: annotation when you capture. Use data from surrounding (GPS, devices, etc.) Archive and sharing – tie-in with Flickr. Download them and showing them as a screensaver. Merkitys-Meaning Annotation using tags isn’t enough because they’re just strings. Effort & [...]

NRC.Next

In Articles on 15 March 2006 tagged design, Flash, media, news, newspapers, NRC.Next, opinions, websites with Comments Off

Een hele site in Flash optuigen, en deze vervolgens alleen gebruiken voor een slideshow met wat “prikkelende” foto’s? Kom op NRC — dat kunnen jullie beter.