Game Design
It’s worth asking ourselves what skills are more commonly needed today. Games should be evolving towards teaching us those skills.
Raph Koster • Theory of Fun for Game Design
Building Learning and Fun into Your Applications
The content explores integrating learning and fun from game design principles into applications, emphasizing interaction design, user engagement, and creating effective, enjoyable user experiences.
lostgarden.comThe best products don’t just fill a need. They help people get better at something they care about. Game thinking is a framework for building products that make your customers more powerful, knowledgeable, and connected. Like lean startup, game thinking is grounded in testing assumptions. And like design thinking, we start out in a problem space (a
... See moreAmy Jo Kim • Game Thinking: Innovate smarter & drive deep engagement with design techniques from hit games
The future is at the intersection of economic and game design
Tim Ferriss • #550: Andrew Chen — Metaverse, Metrics, and Meerkats
game development, there are often two main problems that make it very difficult to finish any kind of project successfully: First, people in charge usually have unrealistic expectations. Both in terms of what the game concept itself can achieve financially and in terms of what the existing team, with their available resources and competence, can re
... See moreGuido Schmidt • Game Design: Impossible: The drama of game development
The greatest power of games is that you can explore this landscape of different agencies. The greatest danger of games is that you can get sucked into this experience of just craving and wanting to be in a clear, crisp and gentle universe where you know exactly what to do and exactly how well it’s measured.
New York Times • A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
we rarely connect our desire to create with the goal of behavior change. At most companies, the decision-making process behind what we build still looks like an episode of Mad Men: people, generally white and male and lacking any expertise other than privilege, throw ideas out until one of them sounds sexy enough, and that’s what gets built. The ra
... See moreMatt Wallaert • Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change
In a class called Social Software, which I taught last fall, the students worked in small groups to design and launch software to support some form of group interaction. To anchor the class, I required that whatever project they came up with be used by other ITP students. This first order benefits of this strategy were simple: the designers came fr... See more