Comments on: Playing Together – my talk from NLGD and Develop – now online http://infovore.org/archives/2008/08/22/playing-together-my-talk-from-nlgd-and-develop-now-online/ a weblog by Tom Armitage Sun, 08 Apr 2012 09:50:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Emmet http://infovore.org/archives/2008/08/22/playing-together-my-talk-from-nlgd-and-develop-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-103908 Emmet Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:18:45 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1418#comment-103908 Hi Tom. I think there's an interesting line of thought that is tangental to the Flickr and Nike+ stuff, about how play and online stuff are both leaking into real life -- the things that you would have normally have done anyway (taking snaps, exercising) are somehow infused with an added element of fun or specialness by being part of a wider "game". Perhaps that's where the meeting point is going to be? I've sort of felt that the ARG type stuff held more promise than it has actually managed to deliver so far, but I also think that if these activites can be less explicitly about playing a game and more about low-barrier ways of turning everyday proceedings into fun... then something really interesting can happen. And I wouldn't normally say we should wait for hardware to enable things like that to happen, but in this case it seems true (the Nike pedometer thing, cheap digital cameras). Incidentally, I like the format you've used to present the slides and notes. Hi Tom. I think there’s an interesting line of thought that is tangental to the Flickr and Nike+ stuff, about how play and online stuff are both leaking into real life — the things that you would have normally have done anyway (taking snaps, exercising) are somehow infused with an added element of fun or specialness by being part of a wider “game”. Perhaps that’s where the meeting point is going to be?

I’ve sort of felt that the ARG type stuff held more promise than it has actually managed to deliver so far, but I also think that if these activites can be less explicitly about playing a game and more about low-barrier ways of turning everyday proceedings into fun… then something really interesting can happen. And I wouldn’t normally say we should wait for hardware to enable things like that to happen, but in this case it seems true (the Nike pedometer thing, cheap digital cameras).

Incidentally, I like the format you’ve used to present the slides and notes.

]]> By: Tom http://infovore.org/archives/2008/08/22/playing-together-my-talk-from-nlgd-and-develop-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-101702 Tom Sat, 23 Aug 2008 17:21:54 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1418#comment-101702 James - I could have done, but I didn't really have time to go into the complexities of GNE. GNE itself wasn't really a game about sharing photos - sharing photos was just a thing people ended up doing on it, and Flickr grew out of a tool for GNE players to stop using the game to do that, iirc. But it's a valid point of comparison, nontheless. James – I could have done, but I didn’t really have time to go into the complexities of GNE. GNE itself wasn’t really a game about sharing photos – sharing photos was just a thing people ended up doing on it, and Flickr grew out of a tool for GNE players to stop using the game to do that, iirc. But it’s a valid point of comparison, nontheless.

]]> By: James http://infovore.org/archives/2008/08/22/playing-together-my-talk-from-nlgd-and-develop-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-101616 James Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:54:53 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1418#comment-101616 I'm surprised you didn't note that Flickr itself grew out of a game that involved sharing photos. I’m surprised you didn’t note that Flickr itself grew out of a game that involved sharing photos.

]]> By: Alex http://infovore.org/archives/2008/08/22/playing-together-my-talk-from-nlgd-and-develop-now-online/comment-page-1/#comment-101420 Alex Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:37:28 +0000 http://infovore.org/?p=1418#comment-101420 Great stuff, Tom. Wish I'd seen it. And that's actually your arse, isn't it? Great stuff, Tom. Wish I’d seen it.
And that’s actually your arse, isn’t it?

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