More Than Useful
Kars Alfrink – Leapfrog – FBTB 2008

Hello

youtube.com/watch?v=JRAPnuwnpRs

Questions
flickr.com/photos/drachmann/327122302

Games and IxD

IxD GD

“Games are made out
of making choices,
a.k.a. Interaction
Design”
—Raph Koster

“…a cyclical process
in which two actors
alternately listen, think
and speak.”
—Chris Crawford

flickr.com/photos/sharefestival/2340467640 flickr.com/photos/jordanfischer/1421046612

Other-Than-Everyday
flickr.com/photos/tom-carden/4457844

About Play

flickr.com/photos/squirmelia/528513813

Game Play
|
Ludic Activities
|
Being Playful

“Play is free
movement within a
more rigid structure.”
—Salen & Zimmerman

Snug Playgrounds

Possibility Space
Text
Flughafen by Ho-Yeol Ryu

“…to understand so
thoroughly that the
observer becomes a
part of the
observed…”
—Robert A. Heinlein

flickr.com/photos/the-small-print/2299675674 flickr.com/photos/dpicker/331101373

1. Customization & Personalization
2. Adaptation

Customization &
Personalization

Generation C
flickr.com/photos/jef/131433953

3C Products

Emergence
flickr.com/photos/vollerama/23924927

Courtesy of Sulka Haro

Unfolding Range

Mechanics
Dynamics
Aesthetics

flickr.com/photos/pixteca/297504996

Silver Bullet?

Sharing Stories
flickr.com/photos/ginjoe/2314834170

Storytelling in Games

flickr.com/photos/kaioshin/318082196 flickr.com/photos/ceoln/29667043

Emergent Narrative

- Replay
- Recam
- Machinima
- Performance

Replays
Race game voorbeeld
youtube.com/watch?v=j0pDFxUmJs8

video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4377045128682861900

youtube.com/watch?v=IzO1mCAVyMw

youtube.com/watch?v=dVUgd8ot6BE

Adaptation

Flow
flickr.com/photos/kmevans/402898622

Dynamic Difficulty
Adjustment

flickr.com/photos/bdgamersnet/143346033

Courtesy of Leisa Reichelt

Spore
flickr.com/photos/fboosman/111352299

Games Modelling
Players

An Expressive
Language

Portal
flickr.com/photos/z--x/2094070564

More Than Useful

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