Comments on: A Model of Play

By: Morgan Ramsay

Morgan Ramsay — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:43:19 +0000

By the way, if you want to read an interesting take on games, read Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan (1964). Click the link and search for the phrase "games are popular art". Start reading from that point onward.

By: Morgan Ramsay

Morgan Ramsay — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 07:31:22 +0000

The notion that interactivity is inherently a conversation can be traced back to at least Chris Crawford, of course.

Wilbur Schramm was talking about communication as interaction in 1954. Paul Watzlawick based his work in 1967 partly on that idea, too. In 1990, Michael Motley referenced communication as interaction as well. Scientists treat communication as transactional nowadays, as opposed to interactional or linear. This website has diagrams for all three models.

By: Richard Bartle

Richard Bartle — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:55:29 +0000

Hmm, it doesn’t seem to have any way to plan how you’re going to plan something, the reason being that planning and acting are considered to be separate (whereas planning is actually just like acting, but on a plan).

Of course, given that planning about planning was the subject of my PhD, I would say that…

Richard

By: Michael Chui

Michael Chui — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:46:03 +0000

For something more concrete, they have this:

http://www.dubberly.com/concept-maps/how-to-play-baseball-project.html

And I’m sitting here thinking, “Look! Look! Skill chains!”