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This post contains a video of Daniel Cook’s presentation at a recent IxDA event. This is a good introduction into the concept of exploratory learning, somtehing games do really well. Dan also explains his skill chain model, which he now dubs STARS – for Skills, Tools, Activities, Rules and Stimuli.
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More notes taken at Playful, these are by Elin. She writes: “To me, the most interesting talks revolved around the notion of “freeplay” — the bit of the user experience that can’t be designed or controlled by designers in advance.”
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A short piece by Gibson on the nature of science fiction. “I took it for granted that the present moment is always infinitely stranger and more complex than any “future” I could imagine. My craft would be (for a while, anyway) one of importing steamingly weird fragments of the ever-alien present into “worlds” (as we say in science fiction) that purported to be “the future”.”
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A wonderful image collection of old board games, with some interesting links to history articles at the end. Via Tom.