[IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Hi

[William Volk]

Before you make this incredibly broad generalization.

<GROUCHY-OLD-MAN>

I was lecturing on usability and user experience at GDC (1994) before you
could spell usability.

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Just kidding.

Opening from my (in)famous talk:

"The Interface is the Game"
William Volk 
 
         That's a strong statement.  Consider the substance of a computer
game (for the sake of compactness, I'm grouping video and computer games
together.... since a video game console is a computer in hiding, a Sega
Genesis and a Macintosh SE even use the same CPU).  What do we see?  It's
like a television (often it is a television) with changing images and
sometimes sounds (text is a image).  We watch television.  We play computer
games.  Play in this context is interaction.  Watching blocks fall, some
into place, some not, may be entertainment ... but it's not Tetris...
unless you can effect the orientation and location of where the blocks fall.
 
         This sounds obvious (it is obvious) but it's often obscured by
worthwhile concerns about production values (the quality of the imagery,
animation, audio, dialog, and music in a production).  If the Interaction is
what separates a passive experience from an interactive one, then it can be
argued that the 'game' is the Interface.  Or to mimic a famous computer
programming paradigm:
 
         Interfaces + Production Elements = Games.






From: Wendy Fischer <wfischer at airplay.com>
Reply-To: Mobile Game Development SIG Mailing List <mobile_games at igda.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:50:17 -0700
To: Mobile Game Development SIG Mailing List <mobile_games at igda.org>
Conversation: [IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Hi
Subject: Re: [IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Hi

So I¹m just guessing from the underwhelming lack of response, there¹s not
much concern about usability and user experience in mobile gamesŠ.
 


From: mobile_games-bounces at igda.org [mailto:mobile_games-bounces at igda.org]
On Behalf Of Wendy Fischer
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 4:51 PM
To: mobile_games at igda.org
Subject: [IGDA Mobile-SIG List] Hi
 
I just wanted to introduce myself.
 
I¹ve been on the list lurking for a while.
 
I¹m a user interface designer who designs mobile applications and games.
I¹m interested in doing more game design, and would be interested in
speaking with developers who are interested in user interface design for
mobile and game design. I think that usability for mobile applications is
very important.  I¹d be interested in hearing otherss thoughts on what they
do to improve the user experience and usability of their mobile games.
 
-Wendy Fischer
 


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