Posts Tagged ‘recombination’

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 [...]

Play, Story and Recombination

In Articles on 5 October 2007 tagged beautiful seams, embedment, emergence, games, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, lego, narrative, play, poker, recombination, seamfulness, story, user experience, UX with 3 comments

“Dominant models in IA: space + story” was one of the notes I took while at this year’s Euro IA Summit. I’ll get into space some other time. Concerning story: Basically it strikes me that for a discipline involved with an interactive medium, so often designing is likened to storytelling. I’m not sure this is [...]