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Metagames as Viral Loops

In Articles on 4 March 2008 tagged emergence, game design, games, gaming, GD, Magic: The Gathering, metagames, play, Richard Garfield, second order design, viral loops with 1 comment

‘Metagames’—Richard Garfield’s presentation for the 2000 Game Developers Conference—is in today’s links, but I think it deserves a bit more attention than that. Here are some quotes from the document that stood out for me.1

What a metagame is:

“My definition of metagame is broad. It is how a game interfaces with life.”

In other words, [...]

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 5 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. From [...]