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In a world awash with information and eye candy, “social gaming” is rapidly evolving as the largest existential threat to legacy media’s claim on engaged consumer attention. Trust and manipulation issues are also causing people to look beyond incumbent social media platforms such as Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and Facebook.
Scott Broock • Beyond Broadcast and Social Media: Game Engines are the New Reality Engines
Good storytellers rule Silicon Valley.
Meet @blader, founder of @runwayco and investor in @mercury, @elevenlabsio, and 30+ startups.
(04:30) "Every startup should start with a story"
(10:45) Hiring a House of Cards producer as a storytelling advisor 🤯
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Jason Levinx.comWhat can software product designers learn from game designers?
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To design a game is to imagine the person who will eventually play it.
Gabrielle Zevin • Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: A novel
Our head of developer relations, before he became our head of developer relations, he worked at Zynga and ran a development studio. He said, “I’m going to build a game on Roblox and I’m going to crush it, because I know everything about building games.” He showed us his plans, and we said, “Well, you need to have some other things. You need to have... See more
Dean Takahashi • Craig Donato interview: How Roblox navigates brands, UGC, and the metaverse
Aspiring to engage every single human being on the planet in a single game isn’t an arbitrary goal. To accomplish that goal would mean transforming the planet and global society in key ways.
Jane McGonigal • Reality Is Broken
To design a good puzzle, first build a good toy.
Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Games were “designed to reward the kinds of decisions that the game designer thinks are proper,” instilling opaque values and beliefs into players—a critique later leveled at SimCity.69 The model was a “black box,” and even if it was good model, one could not “fathom its complexities by this type of external teasing.”