October 10, 2015

Thinking Like a Game Designer Workshop

This Saturday Karin Forssell – LDT’s director organized the “Thinking Like a Game Designer Workshop” at the Institute of Design at Stanford – a.k.a d-school

“A high-energy creative workshop exploring how to think like a game designer. (Yes, you get to play games too!) But wait! You also get to connect with LDTers and friends. At the end we will talk about how these ideas might apply to future projects.”

It was truly interesting – Core Loop – Compulsion Analysis – B-MAT and yes, we played some games and even danced!

October 10, 2015

LDT Seminar – Week 3

Today we had the pleasure to hearing from 3 more LDTers 🙂

Also had group discussion about are “Learning Problem”… mine was definitely too broad and was more of a “Knowledge Problem”… have to refine it and phrase it better…

Original:

“Alex is a motivated young developer who is fascinated with the new AppleTV OS that recently came out. He learned how to create apps for it and it was quite tricky, even though he has experience with iOS Apps already. He understands this is valuable content he’s acquired and knows that he can make some money out of this (and he needs it). He now has to decide which platform(s) to use to distribute his content. To address this challenge he needs to find out what are the available platforms out there, their market share, revenue sharing business models as well as usability, feature sets and appear. In order to do so he must research the topic online, talk to other users and subject matter expert for some guidelines and pointers.

Three people who could help learn more about this challenge:

Karin Forssell – subject matter expert – LDT
John Mitchell – subject matter expert – Vice Provost for Online Learning
Soren Rosier – subject matter expert – former SRI researcher”

Revised:

“Alex is a motivated young developer who wants to teach people how to program for the new AppleTV OS that recently came out. He looked at several MOOCS, online course market places, YouTube videos and other examples of online teaching. He feels like he does not know where to start in creating, organizing and delivering the course material. He wants to be able to create the material once and then be able to publish it in several platforms.

To address this challenge he needs to find out what are the available platforms out there, their market share, revenue sharing business models as well as usability, feature sets and appear. In order to do so he must do more research on the topic, talk to other users and subject matter expert for some guidelines and pointers.

Three people who could help learn more about this challenge:

Karin Forssell – subject matter expert – LDT
John Mitchell – subject matter expert – Vice Provost for Online Learning
Soren Rosier – subject matter expert – former SRI researcher”

October 10, 2015

Noam Gordon x2

Met up with Noam in person finally! We worked together in the past building Dial.Radio – a Firefox OS project – amongst several other design projects.

Went for some beers on Thursday at a local bar where apparently Elon Musk usually goes to. The bar is called “Antonio’s Nut House” – free peanuts guarded by a gorilla – peanut shells MUST be thrown on the ground.

Yesterday we ran into each other again at the park behind my house – he brings his dog every day – it’s one of the few parks that people let there dogs off the leash around here.

He was swinging at some tennis balls against the wall they have there so I joined in a little – hadn’t played tennis for quite a few years – my shoulder felt fine – maybe I should get back into playing again 🙂