Comments on: Things you don’t see because you weren’t looking for them

By: Läst och uppskattat under veckan : Medspel

Läst och uppskattat under veckan : Medspel — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:06:59 +0000

[...] Things you donâ€t see because you werenâ€t looking for them (The Ludologist) [...]

By: Fabian

Fabian — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:52:55 +0000

Reminds me of watching a friend play through the end sequence in Portal (I had already played it), and I wanted to know how much time he had left, and he hadn’t realized that there were big screens all around showing a countdown.

By: Jeffool

Jeffool — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:55:32 +0000

A little late to the party, but thanks; that was hilarious.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:44:48 +0000

I just wish moonwalking bears would have the decency to stop at stop signs once in a while.

By: Jesper

Jesper — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:17:55 +0000

It’s why humans are relatively efficient at parsing information, isn’t it? Saves a lot of processing as long thing are where you expect them to be.

I guess it’s also one of the reasons why you can make puzzles at all: We tend to look for certain types of answers depending on the clues we get, so you just trick the player into looking for answers in the wrong place – as in the case of Greg’s email address.

By: Greg

Greg — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:18:53 +0000

I used to have a business card, on which the single largest element, in a very noticeable display font (Crackhouse) was my email address.

You wouldn’t believe how many people looked at it and asked “What’s your email address?” — because it wasn’t in tiny type under my name, where they expected it to be.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:44:18 +0000

Illustrative and hilarious! This has the depressing Danish bicycle infomercials beat by a long shot.