sometimes it helps to be around children. You constantly have to come up with something to keep them from jumping at you, climbing on top of you or grabbing and poking you.
Inventing games is something that parents have to do all day, and kids are quite a demanding audience.
It's strange to see how the little things add up to each other and form answers to questions that seem so complicated when discussed at workshops or roundtables or conferences.
Moving from the sagasnet workshop on interactive storytelling straight to playing penguin and pig with Michael Nitsche's daughter in the car on the drive to GeorgiaTech seemed funny to me.
I get the feeling we might be focussing on electonics too much when it comes to experience, narration and plain old fun.
But we're getting there. Hopefully, some day, we will see all the screens vanish or be integrated into things that are useful to use while keeping us physical and attached to the real world.
And geting up at 6am isn't as bad as i thought it would be...
Atlanta is half-warm.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Inventing games is something that parents have to do all day, and kids are quite a demanding audience.
It's strange to see how the little things add up to each other and form answers to questions that seem so complicated when discussed at workshops or roundtables or conferences.
Moving from the sagasnet workshop on interactive storytelling straight to playing penguin and pig with Michael Nitsche's daughter in the car on the drive to GeorgiaTech seemed funny to me.
I get the feeling we might be focussing on electonics too much when it comes to experience, narration and plain old fun.
But we're getting there. Hopefully, some day, we will see all the screens vanish or be integrated into things that are useful to use while keeping us physical and attached to the real world.
And geting up at 6am isn't as bad as i thought it would be...
Atlanta is half-warm.
Sunday, October 29, 2006
