Posts Tagged ‘MMOs’

What Should a Casual MMOG Feel Like?

In Articles on 6 December 2007 tagged aesthetics, casual, emergence, game design, GD, interaction design, IxD, massively multiplayer online games, MMOGs, MMOs, PMOGs, Second Life, Shigeru Miyamoto, short-session, SL, virtual worlds, World of Warcraft, WoW with 8 comments

I’m finding myself in the starting phases of designing a casual MMOG (or virtual world, if you prefer that term). When I say design, I mean determining the structure and behaviour of the world — interaction design, in other words. It’s an interesting challenge (and a significant change from designing mobile games, to say the [...]

Playful IAs — Slides for My Euro IA Summit 2007 Talk

In Talks on 25 September 2007 tagged algorithmic architectures, emergence, Euro IA Summit 2007, flow, fun, game design, game mechanics, GD, IA, information architecture, kicking ass, MMOs, MUDs, play, possibility space, presentations, rewards, slides, social software, user experience, UX, Wii, Will Wright with 19 comments

After a considerable amount of fiddling with SlideShare I’ve finally managed to upload a version of the slides that go with my Playful IAs presentation. This more or less as I presented it at the Euro IA Summit 2007 and includes an approximate transcript of my talk. I hope to get an audio/video recording of [...]