Would the real Mary Poppins please stand up?
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would the real mary poppins please stand up? Sebastian Deterding Northeastern University June 11, 2015
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»School is like medicine: It must taste bitter, else it’s of no use.«
in the punchbowl (1944)Professor Crey
“in everything that can be done, there is an element of fun. Find the fun, and snap, the job’s a game.”
»Mowing the lawn or waiting in a dentist’s office can become enjoyable provided one restructures the activity by providing goals, rules, and the other elements of enjoyment to be reviewed below.«
flow (1990: 51)Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/oem2002006062/PP/
Donald F. Roy
»De Man cites the case of one worker who wrapped 13,000 incandescent bulbs a day; she found her outlet for creative impulse, her self-determination, her meaning in work by varying her wrapping movements a little from time to time. ... (L)ike the light bulb wrapper, I did find a ›certain scope for initiative,‹ and out of this slight freedom to vary activity, I developed a game of work.«
»banana time« (1960)
fun as systemic-emergent qualityhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/benimoto/2084853203
http://www.flickr.com/photos/8147452@N05/2913356030/sizes/o/
Rainer Knizia
»The life blood of game design is testing. ... Why are we playing games? Because it‘s fun. You cannot calculate this. You cannot test this out in an abstract manner. You have to play it.«
shift run stop, episode 40 (2010)
one recipe for one kind of fun
1. Identify the inherent learnable challenge
2. Restructure it optimally with clear goals, rules, feedback
3. Playtest and iterate
test it ‘til you get it righthttps://www.flickr.com/photos/benimoto/2084853203