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Here be diagramming dragons. https://t.co/2wiJXGnOyQ— Venkatesh Rao (田 ) (@vgr) July 18, 2021

How to achieve a happier and healthier game design process by connecting the creative aspects of game design with techniques for effective project management.This book teaches game designers, aspiring game developers, and game design students how to take a digital game project from start to finish—from conceptualizing and designing to building, playtesting, and iterating—while avoiding the uncontrolled overwork known among developers as “crunch.” Written by a legendary game designer, A Playful Production Process outlines a process that connects the creative aspects of game design with proven techniques for effective project management. The book outlines four project phases—ideation, preproduction, full production, and post-production—that give designers and developers the milestones they need to advance from the first glimmerings of an idea to a finished game. The book covers each of the project phases in turn, proceeding from ideation through post-production. Most chapters discuss a subject related to making a game in a structured way, describing the activities that take place in each phase, the milestones that mark the beginning and end of each phase, and the deliverables due at each milestone; others cover processes used to communicate, collaborate, and manage the project. This hands-on “playcentric” approach will help designers conceptualize and create future projects with greater efficiency, more creativity, and less pain.

Your backpack can carry multiple selections! When you pick up your first selection, any remaining matching shards become selections too. Moving next to these selections lets you pick them up into your backpack. You can move freely once you've picked up all selections. pic.twitter.com/pfGF5ssPYT— David Moon (@dm_0ney) July 13, 2021

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Who wore it better?Ivan Illich, 1971: https://t.co/hyvDyCdUToBen Crawford, 2021: https://t.co/e2gMbGgNxN pic.twitter.com/MQBTDZqSQD— Alec Resnick (@aresnick) July 24, 2021

I had a fascinating conversation yesterday with a former roommate who's now a postdoc in number theory. I learned a lot about how math research works! Some stuff I found interesting:— Ben (hiring 64/∞ teammates) (@benskuhn) July 25, 2021

Collaborations between two communities have unearthed a sweet spot for future programming efforts.

Setting up the Games bookshelf pic.twitter.com/AhECFl6vNH— Phil Salvador (@itstheshadsy) July 29, 2021

Feynman’s Tips on Physics (pp. 58 – 60) pic.twitter.com/tkfi5UW23d— Maxim Leyzerovich (@round) January 17, 2020

I heard you like semiotics pic.twitter.com/vcrqAgE4OQ— Cat Manning (🐅,✨) (@catacalypto) September 29, 2020

👓 Coding in VR 🧩 Scratch for Games 🧾 Paper Computing 🤝 PL ❤️ HCI 📜 Smalltalk & LabView History

What if computers could dream?Give it any collection of information and it would slowly resurface things in a random order pic.twitter.com/KDs7LB1ACt— Matthew Siu (@MatthewWSiu) June 8, 2021

I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out, President Crow was many steps ahead of me and not only co-authored a book about it in 2015, Designing the New American University, but has been leading the charge in higher education to rethink the modern university.

I'm less interested in interactive textbooks per say and more curious how through the learning process we can leave a trail or artifact behind for those who may follow in the same footstepshttps://t.co/sVA75vGrCP— Azlen Elza (@azlenelza) August 4, 2021

second brain should be a mess imo, like first brain — Lucy Keer 🪣 (@drossbucket) June 3, 2021 Now that I'm messing up my second brain even more with yet another place for writing it seems like a good time to figure out what I meant by this. (Note: I associate

A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so difficult for end users to command programming power and explores the problems of end user-driven application development that must be solved to afford end users greater computational power. Drawing on empirical research on existing end user systems, A Small Matter of Programming analyzes cognitive, social, and technical issues of end user programming. In particular, it examines the importance of task-specific programming languages, visual application frameworks, and collaborative work practices for end user computing, with the goal of helping designers and programmers understand and better satisfy the needs of end users who want the capability to create, customize, and extend their applications software. The ideas in the book are based on the author's research on two successful end user programming systems - spreadsheets and CAD systems - as well as other empirical research. Nardi concentrates on broad issues in end user programming, especially end users' strengths and problems, introducing tools and techniques as they are related to higher-level user issues. Bonnie A. Nardi is a Member of the Technical Staff at Hewlett Packard Laboratories.

Waypoints to the past and future of visual programming. - visual-programming-codex/implementations.md at main · ivanreese/visual-programming-codex

A classic pattern in technology economics, identified by Joel Spolsky, is layers of the stack attempting to become monopolies while turning other layers into perfectly-competitive markets which are commoditized, in order to harvest most of the consumer surplus; discussion and examples.

There's something really cool about seeing your writing in print. They stopped printing proceedings before my first grad-school paper so this is my first print article since my college structural biology days. Thanks @sarahchasins @roboticwrestler for being awesome teammates! pic.twitter.com/XXbvUFI06a— Joshua Sunshine (@joshsunshine) August 24, 2021

All Cuttle built-ins are implemented *within Cuttle*You can view and edit the code for any of these shapes, or make your own constructions. https://t.co/Nu0UwVYFJr pic.twitter.com/ntyAySeJbB— Cuttle (@CuttleXYZ) August 27, 2021

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Received my copy of “Code As A Creative Medium” by @golan and @tegabrain today and immediately saw and fell in love with this quote by @zachlieberman. This guy gets it! pic.twitter.com/xzrCl7P0Vs— odo (@odo_v1) August 29, 2021

What I'm reading now. @cdutilhnovaes The Dialogical Roots of Deduction pic.twitter.com/OhYAJyamVE— Joel David Hamkins (@JDHamkins) August 28, 2021

"Poemage is a visualization system for exploring the sonic topology of a poem." https://t.co/NJgwY8Qouy pic.twitter.com/azdoPkXfru— andrew🦆blinn (@disconcision) August 30, 2021

Core HCI insight: things that users need to understand and control should be given an object metaphor.The web does not give data an object metaphor. Ergo, the web does not want users to understand or control their data.— Gordon Brander (@gordonbrander) August 31, 2021

Not object-as-in-OOP. Object-as-in HCI object metaphor. Examples:Rearranging apps as physical objects on your home screen.Dragging and dropping a file.Applying menu command (verb) to a selected file (noun)."Trash" as a place where deleted things go.https://t.co/q24uLrZWLH— Gordon Brander (@gordonbrander) August 31, 2021