Abby thinks games maybe are like stories and argues that "the user is always the protagonist". I'd agree with that 100% and then ask how many stories have you read/watched where you can even make t...Read More
Just as an interactive narrative that has a small moment of game play in it probably doesn't make it a game. ... If people talk about it in terms of how you play it, and what you need to do in room X...Read More
Good questions open ended answers (it's a fool's paradise to think there are yes no answers to many of these questions). Play is not the same as a game, a game is, basically, competitive play and it...Read More
It is trivial to make games that you can't necessarily win, but they are still rule governed, procedural (e.g. turn taking) and about the accruing of points, even where the game doesn't call them poi...Read More
Molly picks up my post about recommendation systems and notes that she hates the ads on Facebook but likes Spotify. Exactly, the former is only selling ads, not recommendations of what other peop...Read More
A link is treated by Google as a sort of endorsement, that a link from that term or phrase, to that page, means there's probably some relation between the link text and the destination, and this is a ...Read More
I'm with Patrick, the bigger, faster, more resilient it is built now, the better off we will be, it is the difference in defining useful as an extractive economy (dig it up, sell it) versus a knowledg...Read More
Anderson says this model allows for more diversity, however, do you think problems such as a recommendations hierarchy could emerge? ... Anderson states that infinite access to entertainment media i...Read More
The questions that one of the Thursday classes has raised (they're an interesting set of questions by the way) are: What kind of genre is an interactive documentary? ... If, "Interactive narrative...Read More