Category: Links

“The game industry has … lagged behind [the social web] in creating what Sulka Haro calls “gamer created activity” … At this year’s GDC, we intend to rebalance things on that front, …” Glad to be part of that.

Another interesting Gamma256 submission. Via Ian Bogost and Niels ‘t Hooft.

“What I’m saying, fundamentally, that—the Tetris effect notwithstanding—you can’t hum a video game. So while Tetris and Thriller may have sold about the same number of copies, Michael Jackson has touched many more people than Alexey Pajitnov.“ Alle

“Nokia identifies Circular Entertainment as a coming trend” Effectively Nokia are branding what is commonly known as remix culture. Still something not readily acknowledged in most social web apps today: Users don’t just contribute original content.

Awesome live performance by Imogen Heap (whom I had not heard of before, thanks Guy Parsons). Have seen similar things done before by Dutch artists C-mon and Kypski but this just being one person hugely increases the impact.

“The following list provides information about the uptake, impact and awards garnered from ‘alternate reality games’ (ARGs). … It is not a definitive list, but hopes to provoke one.”

More goodness from the tangible interactions course: a bowl in which tokens are placed that controls media playback. Lots of opportunities for game play here.

Sweet little book blog with a nice design. Actually pays attention to the feeling of browsing through books as you would in a bookstore. Via Benedikte.

If I can’t find a proper new company name I can always generate one with this. “Nutritious Neon Vehicle”? Hmmm… Via Andreas.

The Playyoo Game Creator which I helped create has gone beta. David Mantripp of Imagiventure gives an enjoyable overview.

First in a long series of posts on the ways people have gone about documenting their ARGs. Nice nuts and bolts kind of stuff.

Mister Saffer is at it again — writing a book on gestural interfaces this time. Curious to see how this turns out…

Sweet sweet wallpapers. Can’t I just get a random one of these on my desktop everyday? Via the ever tasteful Bart.

“The map not only presents a narrative of how a designer “gets things done with the help of all her smart things” but at a higher level also seems to hint at how we may deal with mass amounts of information in the future.”

“My Location is a new beta technology from Google that uses cell tower identification to provide you with approximate location information, so it will work on phones without GPS.” The video that goes with this is freaking awesome!

Leisa tries to convince BarCamp techies that user research *is* the cool thing to do (no matter what 37signals say). Nice brief presentation on guerilla user research.

Poole is giving his book on video game culture away on his blog. Never read it, not sure it’s any good, but still noteworthy I’d say.

Stamen republishes the source code to the nice little software sketch that simulates throwing paint on a canvas.

Oliver starts sinking his teeth in indie iPhone game dev and likes what he sees on first sight. Will be paying close attention to any stuff that might come out of this.

A list of posts written during Bogost’s run on Kotaku.

Cook continues to publish kick ass stuff on how games work and how to improve game design. This is his presentation for Project Horseshoe. The best part is the actual graph of a player burning out on Tetris.

A list of good board games, amongst which some nice two player options. Via Matt B and Tom A.

Hilarious sketch about the Danish language. I agree, they really do need help.

“dawdlr is a global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: what are you doing, you know, more generally?”

Sketches by attendees left at the event. Sort of a slow moving back-channel.

Pretty visualization method useful for email threads and related stuff.

A *wealth* of Gmail IMAP and Mail.app / iPhone related info. Very useful. Now if I can just get Mail.app to stop crashing.

A service design shop not only in NL but in my home town? Well what do you know. Think I’ll look these guys up next time I’m home.

114 slides of thoughts from Lamantia on the DIY future. Heady stuff!

As far as I’m concerned, Kindle-like devices are most interesting for content that does not start life as a book. If Amazon opens up this device just a little bit more (and perhaps includes a color display) I’m in the market for one.

Jones on the iPhone: “…although development in sensors and other enablers continues, and efforts such as the interactive gestures wiki are inspiring – it’s likely that we’re locked into pursuing very conscious, very gorgeous, deliberate touch interf

Some bits about the need for standards in touch based interactions.

Good stuff from Lessig. Particularly enjoyed the parts about new literacy and democratization of tools of creativity.