Twister-the power of words

Last week I was talking with Jason and Simon about our projects, and I was complaining, that sometimes because of the cultural and language differences I don’t know (exact) names for various games. One game can have different names in various languages. So, sometimes it’s hard for me to research a particular game since I don’t know what word to use… Usually I draw things out and ask people what’s “English name for it?” If you can imagine me walking around with sketch book and showing some sketches of “mysterious” games, it it’s pretty hilarious, don’t you think? But it works, and in the same time people give me more suggestions:

Hi Agata,
I found this quote about twister and thought you would find it interesting:
“Milton Bradley’s competitors accused them of selling”sex in a box” when they released the phenomenally successful action game Twister in 1966. Twister was the first game in history to use the human body as a full-fledged playing piece, and, admittedly, the Milton Bradley Company released the game with a fair amount of hesitation.”

http://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/Twister/history/

Jason

- Thank you Jason!

What game are you?

1. Can games reflect what we are like? How do games influence us (especially youth)? Can we categorize people by the game they are playing?

Although I don’t like video games that much I want look into why other people do. That’s why I posted a list of best games but it’s PEOPLE that are my main area of interest.

2.When I was thinking about projects that I have done in the past they all fell in the categories o games that I like the most. I like quizzes, card games, chess and some other games that require body movement. I was trying to figure out what I like about gaming and I realized that I like: challenge, thinking abut strategy, concentrating on one thing, taking a risk, gambling , improvising, getting excited, forgetting about everyday else…

The most important fact is that although playing games require thinking, planing or other “effort” it helps me relax and feel better. That’s why I want to create games/environments were (hopefully) people would get some adrenaline going…

(No wonder there are so many people in Vegas!)

Future of video games

I found this interesting list of

10 Future Classic Games:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/02/08/future-video-games-tech-future07-cx_mn_de_0211game_slide_2.html?partner=onet

and

Games We Long To Play
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2007/12/28/halo-video-games-tech-personal-cx_rr_0101vgame_slide_2.html?thisSpeed=15000