[...] those who do not recall, I had a great time at Living Game Worlds a few years ago, including quite enjoying Will Wright’s keynote. Well, this year it’s my turn… [...]

[...] 02/15/06 – Raph Koster blogs on Charbitat as “thematic world generation” [...]

[...] What we have here is a basic human impulse: anthropomorphizing inanimate objects. It’s the same thing that is happening with that 360 blog. If all our devices are, as Bruce says, moving to emitting information at all times, it’s almost certain that they will not be just doing it passively. Instead, our objects are going to express “feelings” based on statistical analysis of data — kind of like how the Aware House at Georgia Tech generated art based on the circulation of people within it. There’s no doubt in my mind that good design will demand objects that guilt-trip us, that are affectionate, and so on, if only to get us to maintain them properly. [...]

[...] Living Game Worlds day one [...]

[...] Raph Koster is blogging the symposium, so far with a post describing his tour of the facilities — including a cool photo of Will Wright gearing up to play an early version of Alternate Reality Facade — as well as a post describing Will’s keynote talk. [...]

[...] The Living Game Worlds Symposium is on here at Tech. You can watch a live stream, or watch recaps of the sessions, including Will Wright’s keynote, on the conference site. Raph Koster is also blogging it (1, 2). [...]

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