Creative Computing
Publications
Rapid Game Jams with Fluidic Games: A User Study and Design Methodology
We introduce rapid game jams, a style of game jam that takes only 1–2 h and is focused on design experimentation rather than on …
Coding, Designing and Networking: Fostering Learning Through Social Connections
Trends in digital technologies and new social practices are calling for innovative models of learning in education. A recent …
Fluidic Games in Cultural Contexts
We introduce fluidic games, a type of casual creator that blends game play and game design. Fluidic games have a core of built-in games …
Design Methods for Democratising Mobile Game Design
Playing mobile games is popular among a large and diverse set of players, contrasting sharply with the limited set of companies and …
Exploring Novel Game Spaces with Fluidic Games
With the growing integration of smartphones into our daily lives, and their increased ease of use, mobile games have become highly …
Mixed Initiative Approaches to on Device Mobile Game Design
Playing casual games is a wildly popular activity on smartphones. However, designing casual games is done by a smaller group of people, …
Wevva: Democratising Game Design
Fluidic games blur the line between gameplay and game design, providing playful, non-technical, easy-to-use tools for users to design …
Semi-Automated Level Design via Auto-Playtesting for Handheld Casual Game Creation
We provide a proof of principle that novel and engaging mobile casual games with new aesthetics, game mechanics and player interactions …
Automated Tweaking of Levels for Casual Creation of Mobile Games
Casual creator software lowers the technical barriers to creative expression. Although casual creation of visual art, music, text and …
Towards a Computational Reading of Emergence in Experimental Game Design
In any prolonged creative act, there may be moments when an interesting and/or surprising aspect of the artefact being created, or a …
A Survey of Programmers’ Practices for Handling Complexity in Creative Coding
Creative coding has goals, methods and tools that distinguish it from other forms of programming practice. A number of creative coding …
Peep: Peer Support for Programming
Peep is an online environment that supports one of the courses (DECO1012) offered as part of the Bachelor of Design Computing at the …
Supporting Creativity Using Curious Agents
This paper briefly examines the evidence for a link between creativity and curiosity and argues that one way to better support creative …
Assisting Design by Analogy
This paper describes research into situated analogy-making and its application to digital design assistants. It is claimed that …