Posts Tagged ‘Will Wright’

Playful IAs — Slides for My Euro IA Summit 2007 Talk

In Talks on 25 September 2007 tagged algorithmic architectures, emergence, Euro IA Summit 2007, flow, fun, game design, game mechanics, GD, IA, information architecture, kicking ass, MMOs, MUDs, play, possibility space, presentations, rewards, slides, social software, user experience, UX, Wii, Will Wright with 19 comments

After a considerable amount of fiddling with SlideShare I’ve finally managed to upload a version of the slides that go with my Playful IAs presentation. This more or less as I presented it at the Euro IA Summit 2007 and includes an approximate transcript of my talk. I hope to get an audio/video recording of [...]

Mirroring Mental Models — Games Modelling Players

In Articles on 20 August 2007 tagged Ben Cerveny, Euro IA Summit 2007, game design, games, GD, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, mental models, models, play, presentations, recommendations, Spore, user experience, UX, Will Wright with 3 comments

Today I sent in the slides of my Euro IA Summit presentation for the proceedings. The rough outline of my talk is done, the most important thing now is to find the proper examples to illustrate all the fuzzy theoretical thinking. That means (at least for me) doing a lot of Flickr photo searches. This [...]

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 [...]

Spatial Metaphors in IA and Game Design

In Articles on 28 February 2007 tagged game design, IA, information architecture, interaction design, IxD, Jesse James Garrett, metaphors, Peter Molyneux, space, web 2.0, web as network, web as platform, web of data, Will Wright with Comments Off

Looking at dominant metaphors in different design disciplines I’m in some way involved in, it’s obvious to me that most are spatial (no surprises there). Here’s some thoughts on how I think this is (or should be) changing. Information architecture tends to approach sites as information spaces (although the web 2.0 hype has brought us [...]