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DEVELOPMENT AND PLAYDO WOMEN DO IT
DIFFERENTLY?
Paulina BozekWomen in Games 2008
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7 years in games industry. Producer / Director Ubisoft, SCEE, >> ATARIBSc Cultural Studies, MSc Media & Communications.
Avril
Courtney Love
Lady MissKier, Deee Lite
Me as ChristinaAguilera
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video
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Mass market. Social game. Broad demographic. 60% female players.
15 Million Units Sold.
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SingStar is entertainment.
It is: Fun, social, competitive, not genderspecific, aspirational, authentic, music.
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Key Decisions
Social2 microphones.
Competitivescoring system
Authenticreal music and videos.
Influenced by media and pop culture
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Assumed primary target audience was girls.But that changed very quickly.
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It did attract girls.
But also attracted guys who wanted to see what the girls
were doing…
And moms, dads, teens, college kids, grandma…
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Target audience is everyone. Music is universal. The experience proved universal.
Song selection became our primary method of audience segmentation.
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Lesson #1It’s all about the user and the
experience
• Importance of feedback and testing• Importance of demos and shows. • Importance of sampling for marketing.
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Lesson #2
Prioritize what brings the most value to the experience.
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Focus on the user again.
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33% women
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JadeBeyond Good and Evil
Boss characterMGS3
Elena FischerUncharted
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User Generated Content
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“we are living in the middle of a remarkable increase in our ability to share, to cooperate with one another and to take collective action, all outside the framework of traditional institutions and organizations.”
“they do not coordinate, they help users coordinate themselves.”
“unsupervised effort”
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“the old divisions of amateur and professional are changing”
“access to re-creative tools like Flickr, Wikipedia, weblogs – ability to distribute their creations to others
“UGC is not a personal theory of creative capabilities but a social theory of media relations.”
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“any radical change in our ability to communicate with one another changes society”
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Wow – awesome, power to the people!!
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How to become a designer at MediaMolecule,make LBP levels.
Spore YouTube Channel• 20 official spore videos from EA• 122, 680 user created videos
Anshe Chung: The First Second Life Millionaire
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convert millions of players into game designers - no programming skills required!
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video
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• If we have this conversation in 2 to 5 years time, wonder how the landscape will change as a result of the rise of UGC
• alongside academic programs, conferences and other formal initiatives, the rise of UGC may have an impact afterall.
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Honorarium
Assemble lectures to present. If you do well enough, you can unlock invitations to travel and speak.
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Thank You
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