A shot of the latte I brought to Michael Mateas & Andrew Stern’s paper on Facade and interactive storytelling at DiGRA 2005: The fortune cookie wisdom on the cup tells me that I am “Scared of Fictions”, ouch.
Andrew Stern blurry in the background.
Their presentation taught me the concept of “wicked problems”: A wicked problem is a problem which is intertwined with its own solution. That is, problems that you can only understand by looking for the solution, problems where you don’t really know what you are trying to solve before you actually solve them.
No doubt about it, I’m scared of Starbucks.