Posts Tagged ‘thinking’

Space to Play

In Articles on 4 February 2008 tagged activities, Ben Cerveny, Donald Norman, emergence, game design, games, gaming, interaction design, languages, learning, movement, play, thinking with 2 comments

The languages you’ve mastered shape your thinking. Nouns, verbs, adjectives…if you think of your day-to-day interactions on the web it’s clear the language you’re using is (very) limited. Does that limit your range of thoughts, and the things you’re able to express? Certainly, I’d say.

A quote from an old Ben Cerveny bio found in the [...]

Pollinator — A Casual Game Prototype Made With Mobile Processing

In Articles on 7 November 2007 tagged bees, casual, coding, design, flowers, game design, games, grass, honey, making, mobile, nectar, play, pollen, processing, programming, prototyping, seeds, short-session, sketching, thinking with 15 comments

Last sunday I sat down and coded a prototype of a casual game in Mobile Processing. I got the idea for it the evening before: You’re a bee who needs to collect as much honey as possible in his hive while at the same time keeping a flower-bed blooming by pollinating… Play it and let [...]