Lostgarden

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Daniel Cook's essays on game design, social systems, game art, and the business of design. Latest feed post: May 2025.

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Creative Cohorts #GameDesign #Systems #Creativity
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May 24, 2025
What is a Social Systems Designer? #GameDesign #SystemsThinking #SocialDesign
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Mar 22, 2025
Kind Games: The GDC Talk #GameDesign #GDC #Essays
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Jun 28, 2024
What is a Daniel Cook Game? #GameDesign #Personal #Essays
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Jul 8, 2023
Kind Games: Designing for Prosocial Multiplayer #GameDesign #SocialSystems #Multiplayer
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Jul 8, 2023
Appliance Gaming 2020 #GameDesign #Systems #Art
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May 18, 2023
A design practice for social systems #GameDesign #Systems #Social
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Apr 7, 2023
The Letter Circle #GameDesign #Multiplayer #ProductDesign
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Feb 26, 2023
Closed social affordances / Open social affordances in social systems design #GameDesign #SocialSystems #DesignTheory
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Jan 1, 2023
Kindness #Design #GameDesign #SocialSystems
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Nov 12, 2022