Posts Tagged ‘second order design’

Playing With Emergence Is Like Gardening

In Articles on 22 August 2008 tagged books, complexity, dog-eared pages, emergence, game design, games, gardening, GD, interaction design, IxD, learning, play, second order design, Steven Berlin Johnson with 1 comment

It’s been a while since I finished reading Steven Berlin Johnson’s Emergence. I picked up the book because ever since I started thinking about what IxDs can learn from game design, the concept of emergence kept popping up. Johnson’s book is a pleasant read, an easy-going introduction to the subject. I started and finished it [...]

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 6 comments

‘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 [...]