Category: gaming
Museum Challenges for 2019
Distillation of a Twitter chat from New Year’s 2019 about challenges facing museum experience designers.
Opportunities for collaboration: building storyworlds
So, I’m not in Iceland as I’d planned to be. A cracked cockpit windshield, several hours of waiting, and a determinedly cheerful, “Flight cancelled! Come
Playing With the Past, Part Two: Magic Circles and Interaction Alibis
Given what we know about play, games, and learning, what can we pull out of the mass of research? For me, the two biggest tools I’ve come across are the concepts of the magic circle and the interaction alibi. These powerful ideas have caused me to reframe a lot of what I thought I knew about museum experience design, and their potential in the heritage sector is vast, and as yet largely untapped methinks.
Playing with the Past, Part One: How Play Relates to Cultural Heritage
An examination of some of the qualities of heritage experiences that I have experienced to be particularly germane to this discussion.
Peeling the Onion, Part Three: Play
“Play” is a very big idea. Game playing is a very engaging activity, one that evokes a level of commitment and concentration in players that
Thinking about Museums 