Playing With Complexity @ NLGD Festival of Games 2008

Playing With Complexity

Kars Alfrink – Leapfrog – FOG 2008

Hello

Work

1. What It Is

2. Non-Obvious Applications

3. Design Issues

1. What It Is

Making Visible the Invisible

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg

A Medium, Not a Technique

Arguments

2. Non-Obvious Applications

Organized Complexity

http://flickr.com/photos/vollerama/23924927/

Understanding Complexity

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Happiness Hacking

http://flickr.com/photos/laughingsquid/436663257/

(10+2)×5

The Apgar Score

http://flickr.com/photos/klemann/135655602/

http://www.sensewear.com/

Supercontext

3. Design Issues

The Role of Aesthetics

Twitter

Criticism

Experience

Utility vs. Frivolity

PENS

- Competence

- Autonomy

- Relatedness

An Expressive Language

Portal

http://flickr.com/photos/z--x/2094070564/

Grokking

From Description to Prediction

Non-Prescriptive Motivation

Futures

The Ludic Fallacyhttp://flickr.com/photos/essjay/224318029/

“It is tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”—Yogi Berra

A Hybrid Approach

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