Link to the one in Berlin. And the comments on the BoingBoing piece are wondrous (in that they lead to wondrous links).

Comment on this.

Hmmmm. Yes and no and yes, but no, but yes.

I like the idea of the game as being 'fun' vs 'seriously selfishly strategic' a lot.

These are fun. Why?

Big one this. And relates to the movies or sports thing posited by @usablelearning.

Is this a gestalt thing? And how does the bell curve relate to ISD? And culture? And antagonisms? And it all.

Need to sort out the cross-posting branding/strategy. And for how this gets added to the gogapedia.

Artificially Difficult is the best one, but the others are cool too.

Kind of like Epic Win but with a mafia theme?

via @jesseschell and the Gamepocalypse Now site.

The fact that the T-Rex wins a hit makes this one a winner.

Amazing, simple game with one-button only - but the button does something different every game.

Aki points out he did the SCVNGR thing a while back - and points out that loads of people are probably working on the same thing.

I know I am - and wonder if there's a game in this somewhere. Game Mechanics the Gathering.

Looks neat. There was a similar one where Twitter avatars fought each other too - but I can't remember where that one was.

via @ludofy

Kind of missing the point a little here. But also valid.

I think toys are a big part of games. And they're largely forgotten about.

As El Schell says, to build a good game, first build a beautiful toy.

I really enjoyed Choice of Broadsides. A lot. And even replayed it a couple of times.

In fact, all these Choose Your Own Adventure things seem due for a revisit.

Link to the idea of the Post-Primary narrative.

This is really interesting. Games are, in themselves, enough of a context. In the same way that we don't need a context to dance when we're kids (or another analogy which works better...)

At school, we assume we need to provide context to make something interesting. But maybe the opposite is true at work - when we force people into a context it becomes dull.

Interesting.

If you're going to do the Big Four, you'll need some sense of learners creating the context for themselves - maybe creating the context is the 'real' skill?