Postmortem: Game Oven’s Fingle

GamaSutra – A year before Fingle's release, Bojan and I had just finished a game on a big multi-touch table that invited people to play at the same time on the same device. We were showcasing the game at some event and I noticed that when people would accidentally touch each others hands, they would immediately back-off and be like 'ewww, I touched someone's hands!'. This was Fingle's initial inspiration and eventually its common awkward response.