Dave Grey on Gamestorming

What is gamestorming? It sounds like brain storming with games. Game storming is a term we use way before and it's about creativity. We never really design it for creativity but more for efficiency. Every one of us has a black box, and i think this black box is where we had all our creativity is.

It seems that people that are trapped in one place can never make creativity because we are unable to do so therefore our brain cells doesn't regenerate. If we want to be creativity, we need to think environment is like a factory. Think of work place like a factory. In order to feel creative we need to feel it. We need to take part and be energetic and be spontaneous.

Dave Grey actually make a game that makes people work from nothing to something. The first thing they did is Poster session where every single person make a poster on the proposal that they want to work on.

As designers we tend to be selfish and trapped our selves in our black box by not letting people in, however we can only improve by sharing informations with one another.

Games storming can help us move faster towards the results we want to archieve. It's about involving people, about sharing creative information, about creative process. It seems that he uses playing simple games like Dialogue questions/role playing/story telling/voting etc. and just by communicating with people one can really improve creativity.

Designers just have to make the game that is simple easy and fun that everyone can play. Designers are suppose to design for total chaos and not a perfect world. Like the game of Life, it's just a simple game. Everything is a game and a game is a world. Everygame has boundaries which involve time and space. Game has a goal where players has to archieve inorder to win the game. Rules that guides the players on how to play, Artifacts like gaming pieces and lastly players.

There are many million outcomes of a game. So in games storming there is no specific goals. We have to be open for ideas. A world is a journey and we can think of a game as a play.

First we need the boundary > then we need a Tangible outcome > we need to have players and resources > We need to start the game > Explore the games > Close the game to make conclusion wherether we get the tangible outcome we want.

Sometimes when the creative process is too long it might gets tiring and nothing will come out of it therefore planning is very important. People want to have a sense of complishment after a creativity process. The end of the process is a stepping stone and enables the learning journey.

From this video i learned everyone is important in the creative process. Inorder to get more ideas we need to share and through sharing that we realise that the game that we make could be better. This world is about improving anyway and it's really fun looking at his theory of game storming. It's like an idea of an idea makes a new idea and i kind of like it =D

Systems of Chaos and Complexity

Chaos theory is something that is happening randomly during an event that is actually predictable. The butterfly effect is a common trope where it involves time travel and the "what if" cases during the storyline changes the moment of choices which results in two significantly different outcomes.

Complexity theory has many different layers. From the basis of Complex theory we have the system theory which involve goal of principles that can be applied to all types of system in any form of research. Emergence is the integrative levels of the complex system where bby it creats patterns and multiply it which inturns make a simple interaction.

I love playing games that has multiple outcomes. Could be a dating sim game or other games as well. Firstly because if the options are fixed to a certain ending it's going to be very boring because players are being forced to go in that direction and there's no other way out. Like quizzes, when i take quizzes there are bound to have some question that either of the answers is something that you want to choose from but you can't just skip the question and go to the next one because they require for you to do so.

Games that are highly open ended are games like the sims etc. People that didn't know how to play would find it boring because they thought all you do is control this sim and fulfill what it needs and its easy but i should say that it is not easy to play it because each decision will trigger something to happen for example when you are hungry obviously you will cook and eat but what if you're cooking skill is not high enough and you cause a fire, player doesn't know what to do and in the end burns to death. Well it's very easy to die in sim because when it gets too hungry it dies. Well they do have an option where by you can let your sims roam freely so they know that the need to eat when they are hungry but who knows, it's just an A.I and sometimes it just does nothing even though it's hungry.

Pictures taken from:
http://www.emergenceingames.com/index.php?p=1_5_Games
http://oliteratico.co.cc/warhammer-chaos.html

Beauty & Aesthetics

Beauty is a part of Aesthetics. Like the combination of inner and outer beauty. Well the standards of beauty is always changing. When we talk about outer beauty it means the Looks and Inner Beauty means Characteristics.

Machines has inner and outer beauty as well. Of cause the main objective is the inner beauty which is the ability and it's function while the outer beauty which is the look doesn't really matter much unless it's a decoration item.


Classicl beauty like the sun set, the river, the forest, the beach. It's like how we discover it to be beautiful and we can never get tired of looking at it.

Human create technology to make life better and when our lifes gets better we strive for perfection/Improvements/Satisfaction/Eudaimonia etc. Since humans tends to compare among one another it's very common for us to compare with each other through technology as well. Like speaking of technology i think the only country that can make higher technology is either Japan or U.K.

Well there might be a day where we are able to create robots that is very high Artificial Intelligent and not to mention they might one day takes over our world and if they want to kill us all i can say it would be a rough fight really.

Well Gaming is different in a way that we create the characters by giving them a beautiful face, a wonderful personality and you can even call it perfect. But seriously it's just a game. We can never archieve perfection because humans likes to compare and they like to archieve something more than perfection. Let's take for example if this world if full of perfection, like how everyone is nice and friendly, its a perfect day and everyone is preety, no one talks about anything because they all too perfect. Isn't it boring? All you do is go out smile at everyone, work hard like everyone, do this like everyone. Doesn't this makes you a robot?

To me beauty is something that has to come withing one self. Self confidence is very important because without it, even if your're very beautiful you will still feel ugly. The inner self has to be strong because even if one has beauty on the outside but no beauty on the inside they will still turn out ugly. Like how people go for plastic surgery because they Envy and who knows you might just die because of the stupidity of envy.

Pictures taken from:
http://www.grahamowengallery.com/photography/macro-photography.html
http://www.chinatownconnection.com/chinese-symbol-for-beauty.htm

Pirate’s Dilemma

Pirate is a word that reminds me of the movie pirates of the carribean. While Pirate in history is said to be the worse people of all because they steal and kill people just to salvage their food. Well in mordern world Pirate is someone who steals from another. the word Piracy means Theft.

With the internet we have in he present, we can basically become a pirate easily. Downloading videos/music/information online. Seriously even if the website disallow use to download pictures it only means that it is policy protector but there's a thing called screen shot on computers so... & there is also a thing called Photoshop and seriously one can just take a screen shot change it here and there and TaDA~ its new again. Nothing on the net is policy protected.


Pirates in the olden days use swords canons to rob the others but hey~ WE have even better things and it's comfortable. All we need to do is to sit down relax, turn on our laptop and VoiLA we are online doing some Ahem* Illegal stuff. I always feels that every one should have at least done a crime some where be it like downloading piracy things online or maybe porn at home? or rent 2nd hand DVDs. People just didn't realise that they are pirates themselves.

Even in games, trust me ANY GAme you played there is bound to have hackers. ANd seriously it just spoils the fun and they dont care because even when they are banned they can still create new character and continue to hack.

Like speaking of file sharing ain't all students pirates too? Well we always share information online with one another for submissions and stuff. Since everyone is watching/buying piracy DVDs because it is CHEAP/FREE. Human beings are just stingy but who can they blame? Everything is expensive now a days and not the mention the economy is not bad therefore people do such stuff to have fun and entertain themselves.

Piracy is something we all should not do but how many actually stopped? or should i say how many actually didn't do it at all? People will just use excuses like if he can do it i can do it too.

Well,I would say that the do not do crime video might work and well singapore started closing down music websites for free downloads online.

Pictures taken from:
http://jeremyfain.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/yo-ho-lessons-from-piracy-for-industry-dynamics/
http://liventechnicolor.blogspot.com/2009/11/thankstaking-gets-complicated.html

Postmodernism

Post Modernism is a art. It is playful, logical yet interpretative. while Modernism is strict, skillfull and Unified.

In Post modernism, it has many ways of interpretating the truth. But what is the truth? It can be informative as it's logical and realistics. Like how we always do things without realising it? Like turning on and of lights, misplace things because it's just so common to place things around. Well we always do the same thing over and over again yet we didn't notice.

The difference between modernism and post modernism is that well both of them would definately asked questions like the things we do and why do we do it? Like why do we turn on the lights? Because we need it duh... there is no certain correct answer and no certain wrong answer.

In Modernism - Artist way is his own way.
In Post Modernism - Artists gather around to share information.

Post modernism can really bring fun to people, while i have just come across an interesting video about a group of researches working together to make climbing stairs fun and guess what. The escalator is just beside and everyone is using the musical stairs. Aww i want one in SP too =D

Here's the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

Pictures taken from:
http://www.konghee.com/www/2009/07/postmodernism/

Modernism In Games

Modernism is an art that is simplistic to be seen from a different point of perspective.


Post Modernism is different from modernism in terms of like beliefs of oneself which is subjected to change depending on the environment and time. Games now are trying to capture human conditons through mediums.

For games to be unique it has to be interactive. It has to be fun. It means we get to make choices and take responsibility of our choices whether be it good or bad.
Since we can find PostModernism in games does that means it is a form of art? Well i think games can be a great source of entertainment in life. Like how we change life from no fun to so much fun now? Like how we get to kill people without killing them in real life? hmm it maybe a bad thing but really, its just fun and most importantly it's Interactive.

From this i learned that we can really bring post modernism in games in a creative way which lets the user have fun and learn things as well. I feel that many people lack the ability to make decision themselves. Therefore they should play more games and make more decision =D

Pictures taken from:
http://michaelnewberry.com/av/post/post.html
http://www.sawse.com/2008/02/06/solace-in-the-seemingly-obscure/

Modern Art movements

Cubism artwork breaks up object and is being re assembled with multiple viewpoint.

There are 2 types of cubism. Analtic and Synthetic.

Analytic cubism is the first phrase of cubism that simplify objects in to shapes. Synthetic cubism is the same as first phrase but colors are added in and not just a single object but several objects place together. One very interesting thing about cubism is even after simplifying the objects it still has its original form.





Futurism is the love for speed, noise, mchine and pollution. From the picture above i can see that it is a picture of a battle horse well why is it a battle horse? Because of the spear i see around it so i guess there must be a person riding this horse moving forward in high speed. Well there seems to be alot of enemies around it as well but the horse just wasn't afraid. It symbolises courage and with the color schemes used it feel as though the horse is in victory and it looks as though the surrounding time has been stopped.


Surrealism is like drawing of dreams, imagination that explores one person's inner and outer self. In order to draw surrealism one has to have alot of imagination and dreams.

Movie of Surrealism like Alice in the Wonderland and Inception movie settings is place in dreams and yet this dreams become so realistic. It kind of brings a sense of mystery and well it definately looks interesting and cool.

Well we haven't really tried doing any of this art before basically because we wasn't teach and well i would say that i would like to try it because it looks so weird yet it looks nice =D



Other than just using one method to do art. We can also combine both theory into one like this painting above mixing cubism with surrealism.

Pictures taken from:
http://dark.pozadia.org/wallpaper/Artist-Surrealism/
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/italian/italianclubbepfall2000.html
http://www.160grams.com/magazine/2010-2011/february-issue/futuristic-icons.php
http://www.photoshopsupport.com/tutorials/or/cubism.html
http://t1.gstatic.com/

Understanding emotions and Games

Emotion is something everyone has, well even the animals. Emotion is complex in a way that it involves feelings.

Anger- I feel guilty after doing it which is when i'm frustrated at something i'm working on and my mum came in and nags at me so, well i flare at her and i feel guilty after that.

Grief- When i had a fight with my love ones, i get upset. Or when i'm hurt by my friends i feel strong betrayal and i feel upset.

Laughter- This happens all the time when i'm watching TV/playing games/chatting with a friend. It's the sound of happiness.

Happiness- Happiness is very important as they always says happiness is the cure of illness. Well you never know maybe you can get cured because you're happy~ But seriously, happiness depends on how the person's sees life. If the person sees like as pessimistic den the world will be Negative, however if one sees like as vabriant, full of wonders, positive then the world will be a beautiful place.

Envy- Envy for me comes in many forms, like Envy on other people's face/body/work etc. But i think Envy can become a good thing and a bad thing. It is good if one archieve to be like the person they envy but one is bad if they go on a diet without eating just to slim down and look preety. I feel that confident is kind of related to envy because when one is told that he/she is ugly that person will feel sad and therefore lose confident that leads to using unhealthy way to become some one better.

Fear- It is the most dangerous emotion because it can really make a person's mental mind go crazy. The thing is Every one has fear. Fear of death/Fear to fail/Fear of lonliness. We all have many different types of fear and it is always true that inorder for one to over come fear, they must face fear themself but still how many people will dare to face it?

I feel that emotions is very interesting thing. Like people play pranks on other people one the street just to see their reaction? Well we all laugh at the people they played pranks on and this is called the Superiority theory. But i guess it isn't so funny when we're the ones being pranked.

Emotions can be read through body language, speech as well as facial expression. I know that some people is good at hiding some emotions like sadness or fear but is it really possible to hide them all?

Pictures taken from:
http://nuovatradizione.wordpress.com/2010/01/16/thoughts-feelings-or-logic/
http://waa.uwalumni.com/onwisconsin/fall01/emotional1.html

Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Psychology is the exploration of the inner mind. Like how we remember, think, speak and solve problems. We basically use our brain for everything, when we use or speak or think we use our brains and its the thing that makes human special. Different from other species.

Inside our human brains there are attention, association, perception and memory which are all link together.

There are 5 different types of Attention like Focused attention where one is able to respond discretely to the speaker, Sustained attention where one maintain a consistent response during communicating, selective attention where one chooses the freedom to react, Alternating Attention where by one has the ability to shift their focus of attention between task and lastly divided Attention where one is able to respond simultaneously to multiple task/demands.

Memory is very important to a human being. Without memory it's like waking up every morning and yet don't remember anyone around me and repeat my life again and again every single day like the movie 50 First dates. Research says that human can only remember 10 things in sequence, well i feel that it may not be entirely true because the reason why i pass my history in secondary school is through memorizing and trust me it's ALOT of work to do so and well i should say memorizing is easier that math sinces i dont have to do calculations and stuff.

Associaton is the repeated paring of 2 concepts which cause one to lead to the other. Like an anticipation before an action.

I feel that the more we think the more our thoughts becomes matured. Like how we manage to make our life better because of the inventions we make? Like how we look at things differently when something happens? This is a process of living and there's no doubt about it.

Pictures taken from:
http://www.elements4health.com/earlier-memory-decline-for-carriers-of-alzheimers-genetic-risk-factor.html
http://encefalus.com/sociopolitical/behavioral-economics-revisited-face-economic-crisis/

Behavioural games and humanistic psychology

In Humanistic Phychology, it is said that the core belief of humans are good. well i do agree because every human being learn from young on what is right and what is wrong. We all believe that the pressent is more important than the past and the future. The second core is that every human takes responsibility for their own actions. Third belief is the equally worthy of respect from other beings. I believe that each and every one of the human beings deserve the right to be respected. Be it race, religion etc. There's a saying "If you respect the others, they will do the same to you."

Motivation is important in life. Well it is important to me because whenever i see something that really motivates me, it makes me want to work harder to archieve it and excel. Motivation changes the way i do things and improve my moral.

In games, When do we know that something is about to happen? Well there should be a few things that is quite obvious like music/ change of environment and perhaps even some popups from game to remind you what you need to do. Every games we played is a Behavioral games. Because we behave in a certain way when we are being put to the test.


People play games to archieve Eudaimonia (Happiness). Some says that it is to escape from reality and some just played casually for time to pass. Games has to have achievements because it is something that every human being yearns. Well my mum used to nag at me when i'm stuck on my chair playing computer games everyday and recently she's been given a PSP and guess what. She stopped nagging =D Its a good thing right? haha well she told my dad that games are very addictive and it's not easy to stop.

Games can also train people in a way that it can be educational as well. Like Stimulation games that are used in the Army to train soldiers to drive a car before making him drive the actual thing? Other than that researches found out that games can make people learn things more easier and it could be fun at the same time.

Well there are chances where by players become more voilent when playing games as well so is the addiction a good thing or a bad thing?

Pictures taken from:
http://forums.gametrailers.com/thread/need-a-sweet-gaming-related-wa/696751
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Gaming-Zone-Duty-Calls-Posters_i4324660_.htm
http://pcgamingcorner.com/wordpress/?p=1168

Daimonic Realities, Alchemy of the Soul & Modern Root Metaphors

DeJaVu is something that i experience before. Quite a few times actually and researched says that people experiencing DeJaVu could mean that this is not the first time they lived. Could be the first time or even 100 times.

Near Death Experience i heard from my friend that he will see flashbacks of his life with a white background. Our mind records thethings we do and therefore we gets playback when we are encountering near death experience. According to Raymond Moody's research he says that there are actually a total of 9 traits in Near Death Experience.

Human consciousness is split into 2. One is Daemon and the other called Eidolon. Our current self is called the Eidolon and our inner self is called Daemon. There are ways for Eidolon to communicate with Daemon through Injection/Brain operated/Hypnotism/Dreams/Migraine and it is said that when Eidolon is able to communicate with the Daemon, they are usually called Daemonic Man.

Eidolon is our everyday self. The Lower self and Eidolon recieve the message by a hunch, dream or even a voice. Eidolon is located at the Left hemisphere of the brain.

Daemon is our higher everyday self. Communicates with Eidolon by sending it a message not verbally. It is a reflection of god and it's located at the Right hemisphere of the brain. Some may hear the Daemon's voice as it serve as a guardian, council, archangels, heavenly twin, angelic spirit, etc. Daemon guides the Eidolon and helps makes Eidolon's life better. However if one doesn't listen to their daemon they always ends up dead.

In Religion terms we called Daemon as Hun, the yang-like and Masculine while we called Eidolon as P'o, the yin-like and Feminine. In Ancient Persia times daemon and Eidolon is called Urvan and Daena. In Christianity, they banish daemon because there can only be one god in mankind.

Doesn't you feel that life is like a game? It is made up of alot of events, Like game we make decision and we choose the path we want to go and therefore triggers another event. Each decision we make lie the seeds of a different life, like a different course of event. We are responsible for our decision and we take control of our life ourself.

There's a movie about daemon made called the golden compass is a very interesting movie where by the eidolon's daemon takes form of animals and be able to understand daemon and communicate with it. How i wish i had one daemon as pets =D

Well i did a Quiz on which Daemon i am and here's the result:
Multi-Faceted Soul

In a way, you are a truly balanced person. You have a good sense of self, but you have periods of worry and self doubt. You don't like to be alone a lot, but you don't like being constantly surrounded, either. You can be shy in some situations and bold in others. You can tell people how you feel, but you don't wear your heart on your sleeve. You aren't "TOO" anything: You aren't too shy, you aren't too aggressive, you aren't too extroverted, you aren't too introverted. However at any one time you can be any combination of these things.

You tend to adapt yourself to match the situations in which you find yourself. You may be quiet and sensitive with some people, or joking and loud with others. These are all facets of your personality. People tend to perceive you as they want to perceive you. They may even tend to idealize you a bit. Then, when you do something that doesn't fit their concept of who you are (like have an outburst of anger, or a fit of shyness, or make an insensitive joke)they can be shocked and surprised. Does anyone know the real you?

Your daemon would represent your multi-faceted and ever-changing personality, as well as people's tendency to idealize you. He or she would get angry when you did not, be calm and poised when you felt ruffled and anxious, and always be the voice of emotion and reason in your ear.

Suggested forms: Swan, Elephant, Koala, Panda, Chameleon, Wolf.

Daemon Quiz Website:
http://www.okcupid.com/tests/the-golden-compass-daemon-test

Pictures taken from:
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/70457651/
http://www.firstshowing.net/2007/new-full-length-golden-compass-trailer/

The Unconscious

Unconscious is a word that we know but yet we didn't really understand. It's an interesting part of ourselves. It's our inner self that we didn't get to see it. To me it feels like its another personality of me. A different me inside me.

Freud's is a phychologist and a psychatrist. He is proud of his own work. Jung has the same occupation as Freud but he is a great thinker and came up with extrovert and introvert. Well it is said that we have 2 personality, an extrovert side and an introvert side.

Well both couldn't agree with each other's theory anyway because Jung finds human are more complicated and Freud emphasize almost on the dark side of humans. Well Jung Emphasizes on both side.

Dreams is something we all do. I feel that it's not really important to have dreams because i heard that when one dreams he/she uses his energy to dream. Well it's the other case for the movie Inception because they need to dream and it's very important to them.

Oneself is different from Ego(I), like self is a whole soul, a full soul. We have a whole personality which involved both conscious and the Unconscious and we are born with it. To Jung we have many different layers of Unconscious.

Persona is something we created, something that we use to hide our true nature. It's like a belief and something that tells us whether this is right or wrong. It's like a personal point of view and what you believe in as we tends to build our own belief since we are young.

One example from me is that i used to think that my family is loving and everyone is nice however only when i'm older that i am opened to the ugly truth. Well it looks loving from the outside but the inside is always ugly. Well my sister had an abortion. As we all know abortion is wrong and that is what i believe. The worse thing is she had abortion 3 times. Just what in the world is she thinking? Isn't this wrong? It is true that every foetus is a life but i feel that if my sister actually gave birth they will suffer even more. Even now, my sister just give birth to my niece and yet she say that she didn't want the baby and ask her never to be husband to take her instead. IS this what a mother should say? I really don't know and i feel its very irresponsible of her to do that. The thing my niece is still young and haven't started calling people. Well i guess this kind of stuff kind of made me see life differently

Problems caused us not to be convince by people and eventually we tend to be afraid to take risky decisions.

Shadow is something like a desire. Its not wrong for everyone but some may feel it's wrong. Inorder for one to archieve something he/she has to confront it's fear, shadow. Shadow is like a bad habit that we are trying to get rid of.

Inception is one of the movie that i find it weird yet interesting. It's something that i have never seen before and it's real. Dreams can be real? Like how it will affect the original user when one gets hurt in dreams. Well if i have a chance i definately will want to experience dream in a dream though coz it's cool =D


Well i once played a game called Persona 3 on Psp. It's about the main character who are suppose to defeat the shadows. There is a total of 12 boss if i'm not wrong and main character is suppose to kill the last boss which is actually a part of the main character. This is so cool isn't it?

Well i did a personality test and here's the result.
Ta-dah, your personality type is ISFJ!

Introverted (I) 57% Extraverted (E) 43%
Sensing (S) 73% Intuitive (N) 27%
Feeling (F) 60% Thinking (T) 40%
Judging (J) 59% Perceiving (P) 41%

Here's the webside i did my test on.
http://kisa.ca/personality/

Pictures taken from:
http://www.josephinewall.co.uk/stairway.html
http://inception.wikia.com/wiki/Inception_Wiki
http://www.crunchyroll.com/user/Karinth
http://ultimatemind.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/3-powerful-ways-to-program-your-unconscious-mind-for-success/