Mobile Social Play

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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

“ [...] 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 play ful talks at Reboot

Ben Cerveny

TL Taylor

So...

Examples

Big / alternate reality games ConQwest

Big / alternate reality games ilovebees

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! Questions, comments, suggestions: [email_address] This presentation: leapfrog.nl/blog/archives/tags/reboot+9

Questions, comments, suggestions: [email_address]

This presentation: leapfrog.nl/blog/archives/tags/reboot+9