Interactive
The Evolution of Trust
A playable explanation of why we trust each other, told through a deceptively simple game.
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THE PEOPLE BEHIND THE PROJECTS
Nicky Case
Games for curious minds
Interactive stories, playful explanations, and little tools that make big ideas feel human.
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The work, all in one place.
10 selected projects, with credit and a path to the original.
Writing / Society
The Wisdom and/or Madness of Crowds
Draw connections between people to explore how ideas and behaviors spread through human networks.
networkssocial behaviorcomplex systems
Writing / Society
To Build a Better Ballot
Move voters and candidates to compare how voting rules can produce different election outcomes.
votinggame theorydemocracy
Writing / Math
The Magnificent 2D Matrix
Change matrix entries and watch vectors transform, connecting arithmetic with movement on a plane.
linear algebramatricestransformations
Games
Adventures with Anxiety
An interactive story in which you play the anxiety. Contains mature language and themes.
Interactive / Society
LOOPY
A tool for thinking in systems: draw causal loops and simulate them.
systems thinkingfeedback loops
Writing / Society
Parable of the Polygons
A playable post on how harmless individual choices can make a harmful world (with Vi Hart).
segregationgame theorybias
Writing / Computer Science
AI Safety for Fleshy Humans
A whirlwind interactive tour of the core ideas of AI and AI safety.
ai safetyalignment
Writing / Society
Protecting Lives & Liberty: How Contact Tracing Can Foil COVID-19
A comic-style explainer of privacy-preserving contact-tracing apps.
privacyepidemiologycontact tracing
Products
Nutshell
A tiny tool for expandable explanations. Follow an idea without losing your place.
The story along the way.
Original publication and update records, plus explicitly labeled repository milestones.
Update
Nutshell grows a little deeper
An update adds Wikipedia subsection support and recursive expandable links, with a contribution credited to Dev Mehta.
Nutshell · Source Original sourceLaunch
An idea, in a Nutshell
Nicky introduces a tool for embedding expandable explanations from other pages.
Nutshell · Source Original sourceAbout this creative practice
Interactive stories, playful explanations, and little tools that make big ideas feel human.
Ideas and tools in the work
game theorycooperationeconomicsnetworkssocial behaviorcomplex systemsvotingdemocracy
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