Small Worlds beautiful pixel game

At the FOWD tour event in Leeds earlier this year, Brendan Dawes gave a great talk on the importance and role of beauty in everyday life and how this should be applied in interface design and digital systems. The Small Worlds Flash game is definitely an example of this. I’m not a gamer [not by modern standards, though I'm still weak to temptation when it comes to any release of FIFA on XBox 360], but there is something magical about the Small Worlds game that just draws you in. Despite winning a recent gaming award, I guess Small Worlds won’t be challenging CoD7, WoW9 or DGACAG5 in the annual gaming honours, but it’s a fine way to waste 10 minutes online, and might just remind you that small can certainly be beautiful.

19th November 2009

Ben Childs

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