Comments on: Forget the iPhone. Get a Nintendo DS (Part 1). http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/ Adaptive Path Blog Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:41:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: adaptive path » blog » Jason Li » Forget the iPhone. Get a Nintendo DS (Part 2). http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-138476 adaptive path » blog » Jason Li » Forget the iPhone. Get a Nintendo DS (Part 2). Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:08:16 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-138476 [...] (Tom Armitage alluded to this interaction in his comment to my last post.) [...] [...] (Tom Armitage alluded to this interaction in his comment to my last post.) [...]

]]> By: Tom Armitage http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137289 Tom Armitage Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:17:07 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137289 So, for me, the real innovation in that game is the map you can annotate. That's beautiful: something usually static and untouchable affords annotation once you have a touch screen. And that's how people use maps in games: they annotate and hack; nothing's more useless than a map you can't hack. The microphone thing, by contrast, is getting lazy. So many DS games have a blow-out-the-candle moment. Hell, Sim City DS makes you put out fires in your city... by blowing on the microphone. If someone can find something to do with the microphone <i>other</i> than blowing out fires, that'll be interesting. (My favourite interaction design on the DS is the puzzle in Another Code, where you have a stamp on the top screen and a piece of paper on the bottom, and you need to transfer the pattern from one to the other. The solution is breathtaking. Anyone care to guess?) So, for me, the real innovation in that game is the map you can annotate. That’s beautiful: something usually static and untouchable affords annotation once you have a touch screen. And that’s how people use maps in games: they annotate and hack; nothing’s more useless than a map you can’t hack.

The microphone thing, by contrast, is getting lazy. So many DS games have a blow-out-the-candle moment. Hell, Sim City DS makes you put out fires in your city… by blowing on the microphone. If someone can find something to do with the microphone other than blowing out fires, that’ll be interesting.

(My favourite interaction design on the DS is the puzzle in Another Code, where you have a stamp on the top screen and a piece of paper on the bottom, and you need to transfer the pattern from one to the other. The solution is breathtaking. Anyone care to guess?)

]]> By: links for 2007-10-11 (Leapfroglog) http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137258 links for 2007-10-11 (Leapfroglog) Thu, 11 Oct 2007 06:30:00 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137258 [...] adaptive path » blog » Jason Li » Forget the iPhone. Get a Nintendo DS (Part 1). I can only agree with Li that the DS (and other gaming platforms) are great sources of inspiration for IxDs. (tags: gaming games Nintendo DS Zelda inspiration interactiondesign IxD) [...] [...] adaptive path » blog » Jason Li » Forget the iPhone. Get a Nintendo DS (Part 1). I can only agree with Li that the DS (and other gaming platforms) are great sources of inspiration for IxDs. (tags: gaming games Nintendo DS Zelda inspiration interactiondesign IxD) [...]

]]> By: Andrew http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137114 Andrew Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:03:56 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137114 i love how you can make notes on the map. It's exactly what i do on real missions.. My vote is one lone designer, with Nintendo suppling wifi, touch screen and a microphone. i love how you can make notes on the map. It’s exactly what i do on real missions.. My vote is one lone designer, with Nintendo suppling wifi, touch screen and a microphone.

]]> By: Todd W. http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137103 Todd W. Wed, 10 Oct 2007 13:18:54 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137103 Wow. Is there a better example of a company swimming against the mainstream than Nintendo AND seeing the risks pay off in the market? In biz school lingo, it's "differentiation" pure and simple. ("Purple Cow" if you're Godin-ian.) It'd be interesting to know how long it takes different age groups to figure out that puzzle. And do you think this came from consumer-driven insights, as touted in <i>au courant</i> "design thinking" or did it leap from the mind of a lone designer? (Maybe somewhere in between, but you get the point.) Wow. Is there a better example of a company swimming against the mainstream than Nintendo AND seeing the risks pay off in the market? In biz school lingo, it’s “differentiation” pure and simple. (”Purple Cow” if you’re Godin-ian.)

It’d be interesting to know how long it takes different age groups to figure out that puzzle. And do you think this came from consumer-driven insights, as touted in au courant “design thinking” or did it leap from the mind of a lone designer? (Maybe somewhere in between, but you get the point.)

]]> By: Tamlyn Rhodes http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137099 Tamlyn Rhodes Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:55:26 +0000 http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog/2007/10/09/forget-the-iphone-get-a-nintendo-ds-part-1/#comment-137099 Brilliant! Nintendo never ceases to amaze me with its true grasp of what makes gaming fun. Brilliant! Nintendo never ceases to amaze me with its true grasp of what makes gaming fun.

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