{"id":162,"date":"2025-05-04T20:58:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T00:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/?p=162"},"modified":"2025-05-04T20:58:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T00:58:55","slug":"things-to-keep-in-mind-while-reading-kristine-jorgensens-gameworld-interfaces-if-i-ever-get-around-to-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/things-to-keep-in-mind-while-reading-kristine-jorgensens-gameworld-interfaces-if-i-ever-get-around-to-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Things To Keep In Mind While Reading Kristine J\u00f8rgensen&#8217;s Gameworld Interfaces, If I Ever Get Around To It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"\"><em>Mirror&#8217;s Edge<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Runner Vision&#8221;, which subjectivizes, or models the subjective ability of Faith to see her way through the world. Though not activated\/deactivated in game (you can toggle it from a menu, but it is not a Power or Ability that is mapped to a button like Eagle Vision in <em>Assassin&#8217;s Creed<\/em>), it acknowledges that what is seen is not an unfiltered reality. Paths are color-queued and the explanation is that this is a modeling of how the character reads the world. See Also <em>Blades in the Dark<\/em>, where the abstractions ostensibly model the skills of the characters in crime.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Legibility of spaces &#8211; Kevin Lynch&#8217;s <em>The Image of the City<\/em> (or maybe Frederic Jameson&#8217;s cognitive mapping that builds off of that?). Runner vision color codes Lynch&#8217;s points and lines.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Michael L. Black&#8217;s <em>Transparent Designs: Personal Computing and the Politics of User-Friendliness<\/em> which I have not read, but: &#8220;Expanding our definition of usability, <em>Transparent Designs<\/em> examines how popular and technical rhetoric shapes user expectations about what counts as usable and useful as much as or even more so than hardware and software interfaces.&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Usability as a measure of the friction that happens when a specific bodymind articulates with an object that takes inputs and produces outputs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">Cameron Kunzelman on how Speculation works in games (see <em>The World is Born from Zero<\/em>). Causes and effects, and how your cause will be effected back at you on screen audiovisually (And also haptically with certain controllers)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"\">How heuristic understanding is frustrated\/undermined\/prevented by randomness.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btphotographer.com\/postdraft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}