links for 2010-08-24

I won­der when this will become fashion.

Mar­garet shares some notes on te design deci­sions behind Cou­ple Up, a card game cre­at­ed at a recent Hide & Seek event in Lon­don. I found the ideas on how to help play­ers get into per­for­mance interesting.

“Cities are the world’s exper­i­men­tal lab­o­ra­to­ries and thus a metaphor for an uncer­tain age. They are both the can­cer and the foun­da­tion of our net­worked world, both virus and anti­body.” A head­spin­ning tour of con­tem­po­rary urban­i­sa­tion. I am still try­ing to fig­ure out what oppor­tu­ni­ties this cre­ates for for­ward think­ing games designers.