Playful
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The document discusses hardware hacking and designing playful experiences that foreground social interactions using technologies beyond screens and keyboards. It notes some challenges in designing asynchronous games where players are geographically distant and game states need to be shared and enforced. Some past solutions discussed include large public scoreboards and custom hardware. The document advocates for designing tactile games using mobile phones, GPS devices, and other interactive objects to transform relationships with technology in a playful way.
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Playful
- 1. Hardware Hacking Hacking Games Daniel Soltis Interaction Designer Tinker.it!
- 2. Tinker.it! Interaction design consultancy Interactive installations, products, exhibitions and events. Physical meets digital.
- 5. Transformative Idiosyncratic Not transformative I Play Games
- 6. Sometimes I Make Games
- 7. Sometimes I Make Games
- 8. Foreground the social Technologies other than screens or keyboards May be asynchronous, on an expanded board, etc. Potential to transform our relationships to technology Games I Find Particularly Interesting
- 9. asynchronous play geographically distant players changing pool of players Players need to know the game state The system needs to know the game state Both need to be able to enforce the games rules Some Technical Challenges
- 10. Some Solutions from the Past Big score boards, giant game pieces, players call in with info, spy on the players, make a central meeting point, players document online, keep players in small groups, custom hardware
- 11. Mobile Phones to the Rescue foursquare, foursquare.com
- 12. 京顎岳
- 13. Foreground the social Technologies other than screens or keyboards May be asynchronous, on an expanded board, etc. Potential to transform our relationships to technology?
- 15. An Ecosystem of Game Interfaces !!
- 16. Filling in that last box: some playful moments !!
- 17. GPS Puzzle Box Mikal Hart, http://arduiniana.org/projects/the-reverse-geo-cache-puzzle/
- 20. Transformative Idiosyncratic http://www.flickr.com/people/cameronparkins/ Not Transformative
- 21. Thanks! Daniel Soltis [email_address] www.tinker.it
Editor's Notes
- Our roots!
- Some of what we create
- New relationships with people, myself, the world around me. I decide the games I like. I can walk away from a game and go back to normal life.
- Which is great! 京顎岳.
- Yes, in some ways it does, but in other ways it reifies how we relate to technology. I want more options.
- Uses standard phone functionality with a bespoke object
- Uses a specific piece of technology with specific connotations in a new context
- Suggests a new *physical* (and tenuous!) relationship to an object used to access the digital
- Transform our relationships to technology, use idiosyncratic and pleasurable physical objects, be willing to play lightly and take risks