mobile social play @ reboot 9.0

May 31, 2007 Mobile Social Play, Kars Alfrink, Reboot 9.0 1

Mobile Social Play


Hello


Info.nl


Leapfrog


Utrecht School of Arts


Part the first


Games industry

“[...] millions of mobile gamers, [are] tired of being told they’re not really gamers, and frustrated that the state-of-the-art in mobile gaming is 20-year-old design running on 20-day-old technology [...]” -- Demetri Detsaridis


Internet industry


Let’s talk about mobile social play


Definition time...


Mobile


Social


Play


Previous playful talks at Reboot


Ben Cerveny


TL Taylor


So...


Examples


Big / alternate reality gamesConQwest


Big / alternate reality gamesilovebees


Julian Bleecker’s Flavonoid


Keyhole games


Guitar Hero


Dance Dance Revolution


Wii


Tangible


LARP


Part the second


Design theory


Magic circle


Is: the space (and time) in which a game is played


Lusory attitude


Game Play


Mobile social games blur the edges of the magic circle


Everywhere


Anytime


With anyone


Where is the game? Can I escape it?


When am I playing? When have I stopped?


Who are players? Who are non-players?


The Game (1997)


Part the third


Some guidelines


1. Design for different levels of player engagement


2. Provide for player roles


3. Encourage meta gaming


4. Support implicit rule creation


5. Play with the game’s existence


Applications?


A. Cultural resistance


B. Behavioural change


C. Insight


A playful world?


Thank you!

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