links for 2008-05-31

My friend Annakaisa has pub­lished one of her game-like elic­i­ta­tion tech­niques: verbs, nouns and adjec­tives cards for rapid idea gen­er­a­tion ses­sions (tai­lored to casu­al mobile games).

One design­er takes a stab at what makes the Wii­Ware title lost winds so unique. “Chang­ing the method of input can make a famil­iar genre feel like a unique expe­ri­ence”. I would say: of course it does! “It’s the inter­ac­tion, silly.”

A short Dutch doc­u­men­tary film fea­tur­ing Bri­an Sut­ton-Smith who makes some very inter­est­ing points about the *real* val­ue of play. Also some footage of Fish­er-Price’s play lab.

Anoth­er awe­some G.R.L. project: laser con­trolled graf­fi­ti light dis­play pro­ject­ed on the Ren­zo Piano KPN Tele­com Build­ing in Rot­ter­dam (where I once had an ani­ma­tion running).