playing with complexity @ nlgd festival of games 2008
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These are the slides for the talk I gave at NLGD Festival of Games 2008 in Utrecht, the Netherlands on June 20.TRANSCRIPT
Playing With Complexity
Kars Alfrink – Leapfrog – FOG 2008
Hello
Work
1. What It Is
2. Non-Obvious Applications
3. Design Issues
1. What It Is
Making Visible the Invisible
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg
A Medium, Not a Technique
Arguments
2. Non-Obvious Applications
Organized Complexity
http://flickr.com/photos/vollerama/23924927/
Understanding Complexity
Happiness Hacking
http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/436663257/
(10+2)×5
The Apgar Score
http://flickr.com/photos/klemann/135655602/
Supercontext
3. Design Issues
The Role of Aesthetics
Criticism
Experience
Utility vs. Frivolity
PENS
- Competence
- Autonomy
- Relatedness
An Expressive Language
Portal
http://flickr.com/photos/z--x/2094070564/
Grokking
From Description to Prediction
Non-Prescriptive Motivation
Futures
The Ludic Fallacyhttp://flickr.com/photos/essjay/224318029/
“It is tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”—Yogi Berra
A Hybrid Approach
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Thanks!This presentation and more: leapfrog.nl/blog