Authors: Alicia Fortier, Alexander “Droqen” Clair Tseu Martin, Tanya X. Short, Alexei Pepers, Kaitlin Tremblay, Linsey Murdock 🤔How to Use this Paper This paper is offered as a lens for you to (re)consider your game systems and how they might benefit from disobedient agents. Our focus for this paper is on how the game and […]
Observations and resources for game designers seeking to tell stories in highly dynamic games Workgroup Members Introduction Our group discussed techniques, approaches, and common obstacles around interactive storytelling, specifically with regard to combining interesting and highly dynamic gameplay systems with effective and coherent storytelling. Game designers have used games to tell stories since the dawn […]
Group Contributors Abhi, Chandana Ekanayake, Rayla Heide, Steven Lumpkin, William Chyr, Xalavier Nelson Jr Introduction At Polaris 2024, our group set out to build a shared framework for helping designers create emotionally resonant game mechanics, especially in novel contexts. In our efforts to do so, first we established some vocabulary, then looked at existing tools […]
JC Lau, Elaine Gusella, Ian Schrieber, Daniel Cook 1. What is this all about? If, as Sid Meier has famously said, “a game is a series of interesting decisions”, then a co-op game is a series of interesting collective decisions. We define a “collective decision” as a situation where some kind of decision must be […]
Rosa Carbó-Mascarell, Andreia Gonçalves, Chelsea Howe, Natasha Miller, May Ling Tan Goal This paper aims to explore the variables and design decisions that go into creating games where players can impact each others’ experiences. This paper favours pro-social solutions that enable high-risk mechanics and provides development recommendations that mitigate risk factors to get the most […]