Is there a subfield of software design that focuses on tools that are also games? Think Minecraft, which accidentally became the most popular voxel editor.
Could we do this for other editors? Make them into fun games instead of sterile and boring UIs?
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"Fantasy consoles": Fancade, LittleBigPlanet, Voxatron, PICO-8 Sims sold as games: Cities Skylines-expert mode=urban planner https://www.reddit.com/r/CitiesSkylines/top/?t=all … Proof assistants as puzzles: http://incredible.pm/ , Euclidea,
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Max Krieger @maxkriegersSolving (toy) puzzles is all about playing with the space of possibilities. Their designers build in affordances to backtrack and traverse. I can place my jigsaw segments anywhere/flip my rubik's cube aimlessly. What media support this when we're working with real world puzzles?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@mediamolecule's Dreams, I'm fascinated by the fact that NixOS categorized Anki as a "game": https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/tree/master/pkgs/games/anki … Fun design project: gamify Anki? Kinda like@duolingo's design ethos?https://twitter.com/maxkriegers/status/1179625532352352259 …Max Krieger added,
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Yeah, my biggest gripe with flashcard systems is they're hopelessly boring by always repeating the one and the same question. Duolingo gets to stick the words you're learning into many different sentences, which is more fun. Perhaps this is doable in other domains too.
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Anki has an interesting (core) feature I discovered recently which addresses this: note types. You can separate presentation and content by rendering different cards for the same underlying content fields https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#adding-a-note-type …pic.twitter.com/hZsc5Ow72L
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I'll check it out. I gave up on spaced repetition but rereading the new essay by
@michael_nielsen and@andy_matuschak makes me wanna give it another go. They make a good case for how important it is but we are obviously in the stone age of memory systems (and other tools too).0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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