Game Design
Lecture 1
[http://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_says_play_is_more_than_fun_it_s_vital.html Importance of Play TED talk] by Stuart Brown. Read Theory of Fun [http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/2173/book_excerpt_a_theory_of_game_.php 1]
State of flow: characterized by increased focus
Caillois' forms of play
- * agon
- contest or competition
- involves strategy
- * Alea
- dice or chance
- * Mimicry
- imitation
- Theatrical performances
- * Ilinx
- “whirlpool” or altered perception
- roller coasters, children spinning until they fall down
- dancing
Lecture 2
[http://www.ted.com/talks/mihaly_csikszentmihalyi_on_flow.html “Flow” TED talk] by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Flow conditions:
- * Complete focus and concentration on the task
- * A sense of ecstacy / sense of outside everyday reality
- * Clarity ; knowing what needs to be done and how well you are doing
- * Knowing the activity is doable; that skill is adequate to the task
- * A sense of serentity; no worries about oneself, feeling of growing beyond boundaries of the ego
- * Timelessness; hours seem to pass in minutes
- * Intrinsic motivation for the activity
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