fuhahahahaha.... i'm awake

right half of love ♥ game, with @sylvie

posts from @aria-of-flowers tagged #gaming

also:

sylvie
@sylvie

i wrote an essay a while ago called the designer's heart laid bare, which talks a little about the 2010 paper now it's personal: on abusive game design by douglas wilson and miguel sicart. when i read this i really balked at the use of the term "abusive" to describe a form of design i love (design that creates a sense of conversation between the player and designer) even though the paper seemed to agree with me that this approach is interesting

in my essay, i argued this is an expression of vulnerability and playfulness on the designer's part rather than an attempt to "abuse" players, and i called this "heartful game design" because it "comes from the heart". but i never actually liked how that term sounds, it's clunky and doesn't really convey any meaning out of context. i just needed a way to refer to it for the sake of the essay and i couldn't think of anything better

anyways, i didn't know that wilson wrote a follow-up paper called "dialogic game design", which is chapter 2 (starting on page 41) of his 2012 phd dissertation (http://doougle.net/phd/Designing_for_the_Pleasures_of_Disputation.pdf)