Thomas Vigild's presentation from CounterPlay '14.

1. Painful Paradoxes of Play
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2. Schnulli

4. • “You can discover more about a person in
an hour of play than in a year of
conversation.”
• - Platon

15. This...
is what you are
building
Source:
Guitar Hero Faces
by Ari Pescovitz

16. Belie

24. Paradox #1: Rules

28. PLAY = “The free movement
within a more rigid structure”
(Salen/Zimmerman - Rules of Play)
TRANSFORMATIVE PLAY:
The free movement that then
alters that rigid structure for
others.

29. Paradox #2: Time

30. Pieter Brueghel: Young Folks at Play (1560)

31. OK GO: This Too Shall Pass

35. Paradox #3: Pause

41. Paradox #4: Pain

47. Operation Pedopriest

48. • Calabouço Tétrico “Torture Tetris”
• Semiotic vs. Mechanical layer

50. Paradox #5: Tools

58. Paradox #6: Even terms

62. Paradox #7: Manipulation

67. “Most of the designs are based on stories we find intriguing,”!
“It’s always about mystery, what makes your imagination start to work.”

72. Ludi

73. Sylvan Steenhuis - Ludic Interventions
“Time you enjoyed wasting is not wasted time”

76. Paradox #8: The Loop

78. The Loop
Time
Rules
Pain
Even terms
Manipulation
ToolsPause
Painful Paradoxes of Play

82. PLAYER