Sinking One’s Teeth into New Metaphors for Mobile Gaming

Last night it was our pleasure to invite Nicolas Nova to Mobile Monday Barcelona to discuss about “Mobile Gaming and Beyond“. In his talk “Sinking one’s teeth into new metaphors for mobile gaming“, he presented the directions and potentials he finds interesting for the future of mobile gaming. From a critique of the current state of what he calls “immobile gaming”, Nicolas encouraged mobile game designers to consider 3 other avenues. He exemplified ways to create playful experiences from: motion/mobility, other inputs (e.g. blow in the phone) and other outputs (e.g. TV screen), and taking advantage of the imperfections of the infrastructures.

The now almost pervasive “infrastructures fail” slide…

Relation to my thesis: enjoying a stimulating and fruitful collaboration