_ .. / / common(s) / display(s) / create / art(s) / _ / .

• economic(s) -- individual vs group / tit-for-tat / sucker(s)
• read -- philosophy / cybernetica / pattern(s) / theme(s)
• try -- playground(s) / zero sum payoff(s) / score(s)
• look at -- meta game(s) / rule(s) / show case(s) / utopia(s)
• consider -- tragedy of the common(s) / [pedia]

resource(s) / guide(s) / place(s) / story / time(s) / sign(s)

play(s) / dynamic(s) / math / sensor(s) / map(s) / screen(s) / cycle(s)

inspiration(s) / imagination(s) / example(s) / _ / .

• vision of the game -- summary, game goals, mood/theme
• features -- environments, mechanics, interactions
• game mechanics -- traversal, camera control & movements
• combat -- targeting, charge-ups, defense, combo(s)
• challenges -- enemies, strength & weakness, attacks, AI & NPC(s)
• environmental designs -- terrain, interaction, danger, scope
• characters -- attributes, locations, destination(s)
• level design -- layout, maps & hotspots, puzzle(s)

GDD: chapter

eyebook / game(s) / source / cycle(s) / _ / .

gogbot(s) / / moore law(s) / inspire(s) / imagination(s) / _ / .

twinkle(s) / difference(s)

• appointment(s) -- in which you must succeed / in time
• influence & status -- achievement(s) / I want this!
• progression(s) -- towards completion(s) / monitor(s)
• communal discovery -- cooperation(s) / reward(s)

chorewars.com / tip(s) / book(s) / mechanic(s) / read / sign(s)

play / / story / addiction(s) / / challenge(s) / ground(s) / skill(s)

_ .. / social(s) / imagination(s) / transform(s) / machine(s) / _ / .

• unity -- unity3d.com / resource(s) / tutorial
• AR -- junaio / layar / wikitude / vuforia / research
• mobile -- note(s): phonegap.com / www.appgamekit.com
• canvas/js -- quintus / query / crafty / easel / enchant / kinetic
• webgl -- 3.js / 3D / engine(s) / scenejs.org / tutorial(s)
• SDK(s) -- valve / unreal / delta3D / GDK / XNA / dragon age
• web -- tool(s) / HTML5 / flex/as3 / resource(s) / server(s)
• (DIY) -- processing / openframeworks / libcinder.org

serious / inspiration(s) / engine(s) / resource(s) / _ / .

• world of goo -- 2dboy.com/games.php
• crayon -- www.crayonphysics.com
• flower(s) -- thatgamecompany.com/games/flower
• braid -- www.braid-game.com
• zen bound -- zenbound.com
• lapis -- www.moboid.com/lapis/LapisPres.htm
• blueberry -- eriksvedang.wordpress.com/blueberrygarden

trendspotting san francisco GDC 09 (VPRO) / floor game(s) / cycle(s)

_ .. / / common(s) / display(s) / create / art(s) / _ / .

innovation(s) / collaboration(s)

• fitness -- www.virtuagym.com
• elderly care -- www.silverfit.nl/en
• diabetes -- www.gripsugarkids.nl
• learn to fall -- nos broadcast (nl)

crossfit exercise(s) / immovator / izovator / sign(s)

play(s) / sensor(s) / map(s) / screen(s) / cycle(s)

_ .. game(s) / workshop(s) / challenge(s) / TINAG / go / CTSG

[] teaching(s) / display(s) / ethic(s) / ritual(s) / evolution(s) []

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n-gram(s) / collaboration(s) / context(s) / mission(s) / AR(G)

media / education(s) / method / classic(s) / literacy / cycle(s) ! Æ

innovation(s) / space(s) / communication(s) / idea(s) / _ / .

teaching(s) / difference(s)

... imagination is ... the one weapon against reality ...

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/ whatsthehubbub.nl / screen(s) / story / engine(s)

/ play / tribe(s) / network(s) / identity / flow(s) / chart(s) / cycle(s)

game-imitate(s)

_ .. / quest(s) / innovation(s) / screen(s) / machine(s) / _ / .

twinkle(s) / difference(s)

... immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

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T.S. Elliot, from: Jesper Juul -- The Casual Revolution (p.85)

play / project(s) / pirate(s) / product(s) / cycle(s)

game-innovation(s)

idea(s) / engineer(s) / imagination(s) / health / instinct(s) / _ / .

action(s) / difference(s)

... play/game(s) is ... the key to innovation(s) ...

... ... ... blind(s) judge(s) control(s) brain(s) craft(s) closure(s) ... ... ...

com / roll / thought / situationism %%/ direction(s) / exercise(s) / law(s)

play / tribe(s) / network / identity / flow(s) / chart(s) / cycle(s) ! Æ

game-instinct(s)

understanding / innovation(s) / document(s) / quest(s) / _ / .

twinkle(s) / difference(s)

one of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games and it cannot be done by men out of touch with their instinctive selves.

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from Penny de Byl (supposedly: Jung 1977)

/ play / tribe(s) / network(s) / identity / flow(s) / chart(s) / cycle(s)

game-machine(s)

game(s) -- machine(s) / code(s) / fun

world(s) / experience(s) / dream(s) / chance(s) / space(s) / _ / .

twinkle(s) / difference(s)

stories and games can each be thought of as machines that help create experience(s)

... the idea that the mechanics of traditional storytelling, which are innate to the human capability to communicate, are nullified by interactivity is absurd!

Jesse Schell -- The Art of Game Design -- A Book of Lenses

play / digital(s) / story / math(s) / screen(s) / sensor(s) / cycle(s)

game-marker(s)

game(s) -- ludic marker(s)

... / design(s) / emergence(s) / exercise(s) / _ / .

... if the game can be identified easily as play, then it should be easy enough for bystanders to accept or refuse an invitation to play.

The adoption of ludic markers is the easiest way to sidestep some ethical questions.

... ludic markers need not be explicit but can focus on communicating playful or fictional aspects of the game.

pervasive games / cycle(s)

game-math-dropsum(s)

Enjoyed by over 7.5 million PC users worldwide, Dropsum will stretch your mental agility and give your brain a good work out. In DropSum you release numbered balls into a grid. The aim is to make a line of these balls add up to 9, either horizontally or vertically. When your column or row totals nine, you score points and all the balls involved change color. They start out grey and advance to blue, yellow and then red. Once a red ball has been used to make a sum of nine it will explode and allow any balls above it to fill the gap. The falling numbers then have the potential to form scoring combinations with their new neighbours, which may burst other balls, and so the chain reaction progresses. Setting up large combos like this is the way to score serious points. The game ends when the whole grid is filled.

Destroy special octagon tiles and you'll release a special star. These stars are gathered up after a short while. The more stars gathered, the higher the bonus you'll receive.

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DropSum becomes very addictive and will improve your basic maths skills the more you play it.

It's great for both kids and adults and will help speed up your mental maths agility.

• Listen to the relaxing in game music or your own iTunes music
• Your progress is always saved if you quit at any point
• Ten trophies to achieve
• Classic and techno display themes with their own music styles

game-math-quote(s)

How do you use maths in programming, and more specifically just game programming?

Math is an integral part of programming and you cannot write applicable code without understanding basic maths. More-so in games programming which often requires tens of thousands of states to be stored, modified and acted upon during the real-time execution of the game. A good starting point to understand the game maths is to study algebra, and specifically the idea that you can store values in variables represented as letters, and produce complex equations and produce different outcomes based on the data you input. You will find the very first computer programs you write will almost certainly follow these lines. Also, as we move increasingly to a 3D centric approach to games, an understanding of basic trigonometry and three dimensional functions would be invaluable. Leave school with a good grasp of these, and you are half way towards working on the next generation of games.

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game-math(s)

game -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

* _ .. -- @ media / idea(s) / change(s) / theme(s) ? [:/] _

education(s) / question(s) / moral(s)

reference(s)

utopia / rule(s) / ethic(s) / answer(s) / failure(s)

* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

game-mechanic(s)

game(s) -- casual / mechanic(s) / rethoric(s) /

_ .. / # / moore law(s) / inspire(s) / imagination(s) / _ / .

           matching            sorting 
  
  seeking            managing           hitting 
  
       bouncing, tossing, rolling & stacking 
  
  chaining         constructing     socializing
  

chorewars.com / tip(s) for real / dynamic(s) / engine(s)

play / / addiction(s) / challenge(s) / ground(s) / skill(s) / cycle(s)

game-personal(s)

game(s) -- personal health / it's all in the game / C4(X) /

_ .. / / common(s) / display(s) / create / art(s) / _ / .

• teen problem(s) -- personal investigator
• controlling biometric(s) -- www.wild-divine.nl
• parental divorce -- www.ziplandinteractive.com
• (child) cancer -- wish / misson(s)
• asthma -- bronkie
• heart attack(s) -- sense
• gluco level(s) -- diabetes control / nutrition(s)

topic(s) / sensor(s) / map(s) / play(s) / place(s) / cycle(s)

game-plane(s)

perspective(s) -- structure / presentation / functionality

_ .. / design / world(s) / / space(s) / _ / .

1. rule-based space(s) -- mathematics, physics, AI
2. mediated -- image(s), cinematic(s), animation(s)
3. fictional (imaginary) space -- story & plot
4. play -- game mechanics, interface(s), hardware
5. social space(s) -- context, rank(s), multiplayer

Michael Nitsche
Video Game Spaces -- Image, Play and Structure in 3D Worlds

play / tribe(s) / network(s) / identity / flow(s) / chart(s) / cycle(s)

game-quest(s)

game(s) -- quest(s) / mono myth(s)

_ .. / / workshop(s) / _ / .

• [1] ordinary world
  • [2] call to adventure
  • [3] refusal of the call
  • [4] meeting the mentor
• [5] crossing the threshold
  • [6] test, allies, enemies
  • [7] approach to inmost cave
• [8] supreme ordeal
  • [9] reward
• [10]road back
  • [11] resurrection
  • [12] return with the elixer

from: Michael Nitsche -- Video Game Spaces -- Image, Play and Structure in 3D Worlds

game-question(s)

game(s) -- need(s) / persuasive / serious game(s) / CTSG / C4(X) /

_ .. / / common(s) / display(s) / create / art(s) / _ / .

• how do games affect social networks?
• do players need to know the purpose of the game?
• where is the boundary between gameplay and serious issues?
• where are we 5 years from now?
• do games help to live independently?
• what are the demographic(s) of gamification?

serious games / change(s) / behavior(s) / collaboration(s)

play(s) / gamification(s) / sensor(s) / map(s) / screen(s) / cycle(s)

game-science(s)

game(s) -- answer(s) / workshop(s) / education(s) / ritual(s) / goal(s)

_ .. / instinct(s) / world(s) / quest(s) / science(s) / place(s) / _ / .

cacm: science of games -- editorial(s) / reference(s)

• creating a science of games
• games for science and engineering education
• games for training
• how to build serious games
• combining the left and right brain
• using storytelling to motivate programming (thesis)
• real-time sound synthesis and propagation for games

/ play / tribe(s) / network(s) / identity / flow(s) / chart(s) / cycle(s)

game-scribble(s)

game -- payoff(s) / challenge(s) / game(s) / math(s) / plan(s)

* _ .. -- @ media / idea(s) / change(s) / theme(s) ? [:/] _

education(s) / question(s) / moral(s)

... from time to time we take our pen in hand / and scribble symbols on a blank white sheet / their meaning is at everyone's command: it is a game whose rules are nice and clear ...

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glass bead game / reference(s) / impact(s) / mission(s)

utopia / rule(s) / ethic(s) / answer(s) / failure(s)

* - play / social(s) / machine(s) / method(s) / cycle(s) # ! @ Æ

game-serious(s)

game(s) -- persuasive / serious game(s) / it's all in the ... / C4(X) /

_ .. / / common(s) / display(s) / create / art(s) / _ / .

travel(s) / autonomous (inter)active social fun

• awareness -- game(s) / arg(s) / dilemma(s)
• education -- reference(s) / www.mijnnaamishaas.nl
• problem(s) -- health / remediation(s)
• therapy -- learning skill(s)
• experience(s) -- playful application(s)

question(s) / serious games / change(s) / behavior(s)

play(s) / gamification(s) / sensor(s) / map(s) / screen(s) / cycle(s)

game-skill(s)

game(s) -- learning skill(s) / it's all in the game / C4(X) /

_ .. / / common(s) / display(s) / create / art(s) / _ / .

• team up -- www.girlsinc.org/gc/page.php?id=6.2
• dangerous situation(s) -- www.ditto.com.au
• communication method(s) -- www.webwisekids.org
• muscle rehabilitation -- on the move
• physical exercise(s) -- www.silverfit.nl
• fitness -- www.virtuagym.com
• overcome fear(s) -- www.vrphobia.com

play(s) / sensor(s) / map(s) / screen(s) / cycle(s)

game-space(s)

_ .. / innovation(s) / rule(s) / world(s) / CTSG / experience(s) / _ / .

twinkle(s) / pattern(s)

... ever get the feeling that life's a game with changing rules and no clear sides, one you are compelled to play, but cannot win ... welcome to game space ...
game space is where and how we live today ... %%

art / science(s) / algorithm(s) / dream(s) / story / element(s)

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/ context(s) / theory / control(s) / game(s) / theme(s) / Æ

play / workshop(s) / mechanic(s) / display(s) / vision(s) / cycle(s)

game-theme(s)

_ .. / game(s) / innovation(s) / assignment(s) / rule(s) / world(s) / _ / .

1. urban -- (un)safety in urban environment(s)
2. climate -- climate change and energy consumption
3. fitness-- (social network) support for sport and fitness
4. media -- prevention of media and information overload
5. scenario(s) -- emergency / rescue in public area(s)
6. communication -- exchange(s) in private/public space(s)
7. idea(s) ? -- ... / ...

project(s) / experience(s) / CTSG / scenario(s) / vision(s) / cycle(s)

game-topic(s)

game(s) -- theme(s) / vision(s)

_ .. / / common(s) / display(s) / create / art(s) / _ / .

mission(s) / challenge(s)

design is where technology meets culture

  serious
        
                                          games
  

pirate(s) / skin(s) / science(s) / color(s) / vision(s)

play / reading(s) / physic(s) / method(s) / math(s) / cycle(s)

game-world(s)

game(s) -- world(s)

_ .. / dream(s) / plane(s) / quest(s) / CTSG / experience(s) / _ / .

... navigable 3D spaces allow us to crawl, jump, fly, or even teleport through fictional worlds that come through life in our imagination ... we encounter these space through a combination of perception & interaction(s) ...

... video game space(s) stage our dreams and nightmares and they seem to get better at it every year.

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Michael Nitsche -- Video Game Spaces

play / tribe(s) / network(s) / identity / flow(s) / chart(s) / cycle(s)