In the three-part "Orphans' Home Cycle" in the 2009-10 seasor or in "The Coast of Utopia" in 2006-7, the same ensemble of actors played different characters over the course of several shows, with time to develop chemistry and playfulness as a company.
Called Maslo, the new app (and the company behind it), in the words of its founders, was built to develop a "personified AI technology that interacts with empathy and playfulness".
What redeems these occasional signpostings, in a genre that inclines to the portentous, is an odd playfulness, in which the fugitive poetry of the prose is now and again allowed to develop into something semi-surreal.
They start to develop a sense of self (as well as a sense of their twin), recognize patterns and routines, grow preferences (mac and cheese and Curious George) and dislikes (diaper changes and being confined to the car seat or stroller), and cultivate a sense of humor and playfulness.
But in the end, this anarchic new electronic runway seems to be more about attitude, about a certain playfulness and independence in clothes that the British have developed long ago.
Prior to Donkey Kong, games had been developed by engineers and programmers with little or no regard for narrative or graphical playfulness.
Burghardt finds that although playfulness may have been essential to the origin of much that we consider distinctive in human (and mammalian) behavior, it only develops through a specific set of interactions among developmental, evolutionary, ecological, and physiological processes.
Well, it's playful, there's a lot of playfulness.
I wanted that playfulness.
I trusted playfulness and humor".
