Posts Tagged ‘Rules of Play’

The Experience of Playful IAs

In Articles on 9 August 2007 tagged Brian Sutton-Smith, emergence, feedback, game design, GD, IA, information architecture, learning, patterns, perception, play, Rules of Play, user experience, UX with 2 comments

It’s time for a short update on my thinking about Playful IAs (the topic of my Euro IA Summit talk). One of the under-served aspects so far is the actual user experience of an architecture that is playful. Brian Sutton-Smith describes a model describing the ways in which games are experienced in his book Toys [...]

Possibility Spaces and Algorithmic Architectures

In Articles on 9 July 2007 tagged algorithmic architectures, games, gaming, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, Jesse James Garrett, play, possibility spaces, Rules of Play, Will Wright with 8 comments

One of the concepts I plan on exploring in my talk at the Euro IA Summit in Barcelona is ‘possibility spaces’. It’s a term used by Will Wright to describe his view of what a game can be – a space that offers multiple routes and outcomes to its explorer. That idea maps nicely with [...]