links for 2007-02-27

Cool tool that gen­er­ates a Pecha Kucha pre­sen­ta­tion based on your last 20 del.icio.us book­marks. I can imag­ine this would be fun to do on an event. Via Peter.

An inter­view with the design­er of alter­nate real­i­ty games such as I Love Bees (for Halo 2) and The Beast (for Spiel­berg’s AI).

Large inter­view with Will Wright, design­er of Sim City, The Sims and now Spore (a game I’m real­ly look­ing for­ward to play­ing). Lots and lots of cool stuff on the future of games here.

Nico­las Nova puts down some thoughts on the inter­view with Will Wright in Pop­u­lar Sci­ence. He zooms in on trends like user gen­er­at­ed con­tent and games as pro­ce­dur­al education.

Greg Las­towka thinks some of the most inter­est­ing themes from the Wright inter­view are “coop­er­a­tive gam­ing, edu­ca­tion­al gam­ing, game devel­op­ment finances, strate­gies for inte­grat­ing user-gen­er­at­ed con­tent, what went wrong with The Sims Online, and what WW

First in a series of arti­cles on selec­tion, opin­ion and com­par­i­son sys­tems. Great resource for social soft­ware designers.