PUBLIC MARKS with tags 2006 & design

Artypapers has again captured the best of last year(2006) in a one page awards site.

John Kirk has written a book, Design Patterns of Successful Roleplaying Games, in which he tries to catalogue successful game mechanics, why they work, and when (and when not) to use them. Design patterns are a communication tool from software development -- the idea is that successful projects will tend to have recurring patterns, and that by naming and describing them and the situations that call for their use, we can make it easier to turn tacit, experiential knowledge into a teachable skill.

A comprehensive compendium of game design "patterns"

This is a non-exhaustive list of recommended books. New titles might be added to the list in the future. Books are organized by general subject (Technical Books, Game Design, Game Studies and related subjects) and, within subject, by no particular order.

Se Bejeweled fosse um jogo ruim, como seria?

Today Yahoo! released our internal Yahoo! Design Pattern Library under a Creative Commons License. This first release of interaction design patterns is small (just 13) but we'll be adding to it over the next few months.

Com novo design, grande qualidade de imagem e preços em queda, os televisores voltaram a ser objetos de desejo. E ainda vem aí a revolução digital

Strange Attractors by Ominous Development was created for Retro Remakes’ One Switch Competition. It tied for sixth place in the competition, but has since been nominated as a finalist for game design in this year’s Independent Games Festival. Everything in the game is controlled by a single button. In Strange Attractors, this single button toggles in the influence of gravity between the player’s ship and everything else

Hypothetical biofeedback computer game with pulse rate sensors.

# Make it really hard. # Have a dozen mediocre game modes instead of one good one. # Make it a 600 MB download that requires two next generation video cards and 4GB RAM. # Price your game at $35 or $3.50 and sell only from your myspace homepage. # Use the right mouse button. # Give it a terrible name or theme. # Award low scores. # Expect users to read. # Make it challenging and cerebral. # Ignore what everyone else says about your game.

Patterns é uma importante ferramenta de trabalho do designer de interfaces que pode ser traduzido em bibliotecas de “melhores práticas” de dispositivos e elementos usados no processo de concepção de uma interface interativa.

This is cool for all you Ajax developers out there. Yahoo has released their own Ajax user interface library under the BSD license. This is the companion code to their Design Pattern Library.

A Academia de Artes e Ciências Interativas - AIAS, na sigla em inglês - anunciou os vencedores do Prêmio Anual de Realização Interativa. A premiação ocorreu no congresso DICE (sigla para design, inovação, criação e entretenimento), realizando entre 8 e 10 de fevereiro.

Identifiquei alguns centros comuns e incomuns no Design de Interação, mas deve ficar claro que eles podem acontecer em conjunto e mudar no decorrer do projeto:

Kath Straub, Ph.D., CUA, Chief Scientist of HFI, looks at how to select the best menu presentation style for a given application.

Verdana typeface has been selected by the Design Museum and BBC Two's The Culture Show to appear in a shortlist of 25 items for the Great British Design Quest, a nationwide vote to find the public's favourite example of design in Britain since 1900.

A couple years back, I sent my mother an interactive Christmas card. The card was actually a little game. You played Santa and you were skiing down a hill. Along the hill were various obstacles and you had to jump over them by pressing the spacebar.

Coming up with game ideas is a creative process without much structure to it.

Designing games everyone can enjoy

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DDR + Asteroids