links for 2008-02-01

“In the com­ing decade, many busi­ness­es will achieve their great­est break­throughs by play­ing games—specifically, alter­nate real­i­ty games, or ARGs.” Bold clame. The arti­cle this is part of seems chock­full of such mild­ly wacky but inter­est­ing ideas. Via Zb

Need­less use of Flash in this site, but under “Poten­tial” there’s an ele­gant visu­al­iza­tion of the dif­fer­ent places (multi)touch screens can be integrated.

“I find Skate excit­ing because it’s a prime exam­ple of a game that under­stands Gen­er­a­tion C; it allows play­ers to share game-infor­ma­tion out­side the game — and in a man­ner that is so much more eas­i­ly ref­er­enced, due to it hav­ing a per­ma­nent link […].”

Lots of design of play­grounds, skateparks, etc.

“Ludic fal­la­cy is a term coined by the philoso­pher of knowl­edge Nas­sim Taleb […] sum­ma­rized as “the mis­use of games to mod­el real-life sit­u­a­tions”. Taleb char­ac­ter­izes the fal­la­cy as mis­tak­ing the map (mod­el) for the reality[…].”