Posts Tagged ‘tools’

A Playful Stance — My Game Design London 2008 Talk

In Talks on 17 November 2008 tagged architecture, conferences, control, design, emergence, game design, Game Design London, GD, GDL, interaction design, IxD, learning, media, play, Playful 08, playgrounds, presentations, skateboarding, slides, Talks, tools, underspecification with 10 comments

A while ago I was interviewed by Sam Warnaars. He’s researching people’s conference experiences; he asked me what my most favourite and least favourite conference of the past year was. I wish he’d asked me after my trip to Playful ’08, because it has been by far the best conference experience to date. Why? Because [...]

Tools for Having Fun

In Articles on 18 April 2008 tagged casual gamers, Edge, experience, fun, game design, games, gaming, hardcore gamers, magazines, play, PONG, Street Fighter II, Street Fighter IV, tools, Vice with Comments Off

One of the nicer things about GDC was the huge stack of free magazines I took home with me. Among those was an issue of Edge, the glossy games magazine designed to look good on a coffee table next to the likes of Vogue (or whatever). I was briefly subscribed to Edge, but ended up [...]

Playyoo Goes Beta

In Articles on 12 December 2007 tagged casual, creativity, game creator, game design, games, GD, interaction design, IxD, mobile, personal expression, play, playyoo, portfolio, social, tools, web applications with 2 comments

Today Playyoo went beta. Playyoo is a mobile games community I have been involved with as a freelance interaction designer since july of this year. I don’t have time for an elaborate post-mortem, but here are some preliminary notes on what Playyoo is and what part I’ve played in its conception. Playyoo brings some cool [...]

Let’s See if We Can Post From IMified

In Articles on 17 February 2007 tagged blogging, chatting, IM, IMified, instant messaging, tests, tools with 3 comments

So I’m giving IMified (www.imified.com) a spin and have just added the WordPress service to see if it works. For those that haven’t heard about IMified yet; it allows you to do a number of things through instant messaging (MSN, Google Talk, whatever). For instance add stuff to your Backpack account, or like I’m doing [...]