redundancy in feedback for sensory layering - backups, for accessibility, more info

physical control with easier mods, small components and physical tinkering critical design as anti-Bauhaus modes of production and point of standardisation

“Game design is dead. Long live the architecture of play.” - read Play Matters chapter 7

Resources

Dark Design Patterns for Games: https://www.darkpattern.games/
Dark Patterns and Unethical Design: https://hallofshame.design/collection/
Games, Design and Play - A Detailed Approach to Iterative Game Design

interpersonal relations

assume incompetence or ignorance over malice but recognise that cultivated or feigned ignorance or incompetence can be refined acts of malice

creative process

“Bourriaud’s (2002) concept of relational aesthetics that conceptualizes art practice away from the “self-referentiality of modernist art,” turning instead to the way art-making builds relationships with others and with the world. Bourriaud believes that collaborative art and media making provide a space to explore these relations and our identity as it evolves through them. Here, relations, not media objects, are primary. A collective aesthetic means “our values are embedded in our physical and affective relationship with the world” (Leuthold, 1998, p. 16).” - on arts-based research with indigenous communities -
“if you want to be prolific and not stuck in your head, don’t try to create things from scratch. There’s stuff happening in your head right now. Draw/write from that.” - lost source
“How can I create delight in my writing? In drawing, we use Size and scale, Dark and light, Close and far, Sharp and blurred… If a subject blends in too much with its surroundings, make it stand out through vocabulary, line breaks, bold/italics, kill some words to make snappy sentences… draw out a moment to change the pace. Create tension. Use the full range of the medium, and learn by observing how others do it too.” - lost source

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

this is a fiction but I include it here for its insights on game development, creative interaction and the processes of collaborative work - personal/emotional/experiential insights from fiction I currently keep private - its hard to document lessons you learn from art, media, fiction in the wild

one ‘fictional’ creative work discussed is heavily influenced by an uncredited real work. controversies suggests possible issues with Zionism and the author — references to Judaism in the book are infrequent but possibly questionable — not relevant to any core themes or plots. CW topics minimal and respectful but I’m using this entry currently to test the use of CWs. Non-graphic medical themes throughout.

Extracts

“To design a game is to imagine the the person who will eventually play it”
“never use someone else’s game engine if you can help it. You cede too much power to them”
“The simulation was incomplete because it didn’t have a call to action. The only feeling a player could have at the end of Sadie’s game was nihilism.”
“And this is the truth of any game—it can only exist at the moment that it is being played. It’s the same with being an actor. In the end, all we can ever know is the game that was played, in the only world that we know.”
“Computers are great for experimentation, but they’re bad for deep thinking.”
“clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work”