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Spildesigner: Vi overtager dit liv

By On 16/03/2010 ·

Hvis du ikke følger så nøje med i spilverdenen, kan det være undgået din opmærksomhed. Men for et par uger siden forklarede spildesigner Jesse Schell, hvordan din verden snart bliver ét stort computerspil.

Spiludviklere er sjældent kunstnere med stort K. De er oftere ingeniører eller arkitekter (folk som [...]

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The Power of Weakness 4: Some preliminary definitions

By On 12/07/2008 ·

So Jonas, what is this “power of weakness” thing you keep going on about? you, the implied reader, ask.
And I want to thank you for taking the time, because that is a truly relevant inquiry.

The whole thing revolves around something which I [...]

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The Power of Weakness 3: Norwegian News Flash

By On 03/07/2008 ·


Image 1: Trond Giske, Norwegian minister of culture

Technically we’re off topic here (unless our topic is very broad indeed) but I just realized that the near-Danes of Norway have taken a drastic approach to the lure of gaming.

Distressed with the [...]

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The Power of Weakness 2: Lead me not into instant messaging

By On 29/06/2008 ·

Working the way I usually do – backed up powerfully by Wikipedia, Google; seriously revising drafts etc. – I sometimes wonder how on Earth pre-computer people were able to do any serious writing.

Of course, I also – paradoxically – sometimes wonder if I wouldn’t be able to work faster, better and with far greater [...]

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The Power of Weakness 1: Choose your users with care, objects!

By On 20/06/2008 ·

I’m immensely fascinated by the ways in which we, the alleged Homo Sapiens, set up our environments and construct our objects in order to make them difficult to navigate and use.

And I’m not being the least bit sarcastic here. We do, deliberately, and for excellent reasons, limit others and (even, more fascinatingly, ourselves) [...]

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