http://meltwizard.com/2007/03/08/prolonging-the-failure/ Some guy writing about things, probably games. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 13:46:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://meltwizard.com/2007/03/08/prolonging-the-failure/#comment-9 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:17 +0000 http://meltwizard.com/2007/03/08/prolonging-the-failure/#comment-9 [...] My personal favorite by far was Clint Hocking’s beautiful and thought-provoking talk on exploration. Clint established a clear distinction between spatial exploration (exploring and mapping out a game’s geography in your head) and systems exploration (poking around the gameplay’s possibility space). He then suggested a third type, namely self-exploration (the player reflecting on the decisions made in the game, seperate from the desire to optimize within the systems). The concept is tough to explain, and I’m completely using my own words here, but maybe you can get the gist of it from Clint’s slides and the accompanying paper. The slides approached Will Wright levels of awesome, and I had a lot of fun discussing the ideas (and even moreso, the intentions behind Clint’s talk) with Jake and Steve afterwards. [...] […] My personal favorite by far was Clint Hocking’s beautiful and thought-provoking talk on exploration. Clint established a clear distinction between spatial exploration (exploring and mapping out a game’s geography in your head) and systems exploration (poking around the gameplay’s possibility space). He then suggested a third type, namely self-exploration (the player reflecting on the decisions made in the game, seperate from the desire to optimize within the systems). The concept is tough to explain, and I’m completely using my own words here, but maybe you can get the gist of it from Clint’s slides and the accompanying paper. The slides approached Will Wright levels of awesome, and I had a lot of fun discussing the ideas (and even moreso, the intentions behind Clint’s talk) with Jake and Steve afterwards. […]

]]> http://meltwizard.com/2007/03/08/prolonging-the-failure/#comment-8 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 09:40:55 +0000 http://meltwizard.com/2007/03/08/prolonging-the-failure/#comment-8 I'll melt you. ¬¬ I’ll melt you. ¬¬

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