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  • Game Design Advance » The Truth in Game Design
    "Shouldn’t games be an opportunity for players to wrap their heads around counter-intuitive truths?" Yes, they should.
    (tags: games probability chance learning understanding franklantz )
  • what you loved when you were nine or ten « fenced lot
    “I’ve found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old. At that age, you know enough of the world to have opinions about things, but you’re not old enough yet to be overly influenced by the crowd or by what other people are doing or what you think you “should” be doing. If what you do later on ties into that reservoir in some way, then you are nurturing some essential part of yourself.” And now, I love Walter Murch even more.
    (tags: quotations waltermurch childhood ambition life )
  • Hand Signals for Johannesburg Taxi Directions [pdf]
    Depicted as a grid by artist Susan Wolf; to circumvent the large number of languages spoken in Joburg, taxi drivers have official hand signals to take you from A to B. This PDF shows all of them. (via Bobulate)
    (tags: southafrica johannesburg handsignals language signs system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )

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