links for 2008-03-04

“The bluff is the quin­tes­sen­tial force of mobil­i­ty.” Mol­ly writes about Ger­man pro­pa­gan­da in WWII. More good stuff on her Ph.D. project site.

“In order to pro­mote The Nether­lands in Japan, The Dutch Embassy in Tokyo, The Dutch Game Gar­den and the NLGD Foun­da­tion are look­ing for Dutch game devel­op­ers to cre­ate a mobile game for the Japan­ese mar­ket.” Might join in on this one…

Spon­sored game that is actu­al­ly fun to play for a change. Build a robot and fight with oth­ers in an are­na. Some imag­i­na­tive weapons such as a granny bag are includ­ed. Held my inter­est for a bit. Via Jacco.

An influ­en­tial pre­sen­ta­tion by Richard Garfield (design­er of Mag­ic: The Gath­er­ing) for GDC 2000. “…metagame…is how a game inter­faces with life.”

Alper posts on gen­er­a­tive tech­niques in inter­ac­tion design and I reply.

Mer­holz has been hear­ing the term trans­for­ma­tive a lot late­ly. I chip in with “trans­for­ma­tive play” as anoth­er use, besides “trans­for­ma­tive expe­ri­ences” and “trans­for­ma­tive practice”.

“Many of the fas­ci­nat­ing social and cul­tur­al changes trans­form­ing the media right now…are lit­tle more than rever­sions back to the ways things used to be before the 20th cen­tu­ry.” Fahey on the anom­aly that was the 20th century.

Visu­al­iza­tion of blue­tooth pres­ence cou­pled to music tracks built on top of the RoomWare server.