Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

I had planned a close sequel called "Twilight Road" this spring. Stories of journeys rather that stories of borders. The other side of the story from "Gate Watch". Unfortunately, play testing has been difficult. I'm now puzzling out to adapt game for Zoom. …

6/14/2020, 4:04:41 PM

Favs: 0

Retweets: 0

Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

For a cooperative storytelling game, Zoom + Screen Sharing isn't that bad as in general these games all information is public. The problem is that TOO much information is public — it overwhelm's the players. …

6/14/2020, 4:06:35 PM

Favs: 0

Retweets: 0

Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

I've been working on some collaborative information overload solutions using presentation software and/or custom scripting, and it isn't bad. But I'm realizing this isn't just relevant to games — being overwhelmed is also a consequence of business meetings as well. …

6/14/2020, 4:08:07 PM

Favs: 0

Retweets: 1

Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

So far, the key thing appears to be having up front a clear shared signal of what conversational modality are we in. Are we in information sharing? Brainstorming? Are we trying to make a decision? Are we trying to document to share with others? …

6/14/2020, 4:10:35 PM

Favs: 0

Retweets: 0

Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

Not being aligned on these modalities is one of the problems in chat online. Another problem is where is other people's attention? Google Docs has a trick where you can click on someone's avatar and go to what they are looking at. …

6/14/2020, 4:11:40 PM

Favs: 1

Retweets: 0

Christopher Allen

@ChristopherA

What other types of problems might be solved with some type of screen-shared worksheet? Have you created anything like this in Google Docs, Google sheets, or other shared document environment? Do you have tricks doing screen sharing of a facilitative document? Let me know!

6/14/2020, 4:13:28 PM

Favs: 1

Retweets: 0