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MDA Framework with SissyFight 3000
The document describes a game called SISSYFIGHT 3000 that is meant to teach game design concepts. It outlines the setup of dividing players into colored groups, the goal of reducing other players' self-esteem points to zero to win, and how to take turns choosing secret actions and targets to reduce paperclip counts representing self-esteem. It then questions what makes something fun and a game, discussing psychology and the mechanics-dynamics-aesthetics framework to analyze the design of SISSYFIGHT 3000.
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MDA Framework with SissyFight 3000
- 1. GAME DESIGN 102 David J Gagnon University of Wisconsin - Madison ENGAGE Program & Games, Learning and Society Research Community
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- 3. SETUP Green Blue • Divide into groups of 5 Red Black • Take 1 sheet and 10 paperclips White No Target • Label the Cards • Choose a color Tease Scratch Cower
- 4. OVERVIEW • Each girl begins with 10 self-esteem points • Reduce the other girls self-esteem to ZERO • When there are only one or two girls left, they WIN • All communication must be public
- 5. TO PLAY • Choose an ACTION and • Scratch - Target discards TARGET in secret. Defend one paperclip is played with No Target • Tease - If anyone else teams • Reveal against the same target, she cards discards two paperclips per simultaneously attacking player • Score the result • Cower - If no one attacks you, loose a paper clip, otherwise loose half chips required (round down)
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- 17. IT IS OURPSYCHOLOGY
- 19. WAS IT A‘GAME?’
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- 21. AESTHETICS Sensation Fantasy Narrative Challenge Fellowship Discovery Expression Submission
- 22. MDA APPLIED Mechanics Dynamics Aesthetics
- 23. WORK BACKWARD FROM EXPERIENCETO DESIGN
Editor's Notes
- #2 I manage the design and production of: \nPresentation card games, ARIS, Bacteria, Cryo, Music\n\nI got here because of the intersection between learning and play:\nMediated consequences, Magnified Feedback, Systems thinking, Identity\n\nMy background is in programming, rave promotion, electronic-music and video production\n
- #3 A playground fight between a group of school girls\n\nDesigned by Eric Zimmermann of Game Lab \n\n
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- #7 Who can answer this? It must be observed\n\nDoes everyone have the same answer?\n\nWas it fun for you?\n\n\n
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- #19 1949 - Right here at UW Madison\n\nHarry Harlow saw intrinsic motivation in monkeys solving puzzles. \n\nUp until then the only motivations were considered to be BIOLOGICAL or EXTERNAL\n\nHe called it the THIRD DRIVE. \n\n1969 - Edward Deci repeated the experiment with human students, got the same results\n
- #20 Defining a game may be even harder than fun\n\n\n
- #21 Mechanics - Rules and concepts that formally specify the game as a system\n\nDynamics - The run-time behavior of the game.\n\nAesthetics -The desirable emotional responses (aka fun) by the games dynamics\n
- #22 Game as Art Object\nGame as make-believe\nGame as unfolding story\nGame as obstacle course\nGame as social framework\nGame as uncharted territory\nGame as soap box\n\n
- #23 MDA applied to SissyFight\n\nMechanics:\nTurn-Based\nHit Points\nPublic Communication\nSimultaneous Action\n\nDynamics:\nCooperation and Team Attacks\nCompetition and Random Attacks\n\nAesthetics:\nFellowship: Negotiation, Cooperation, Betrayal, Manipulation\nNarrative: Drama and lots of emergence\n\n
- #24 When I talk with Artists they often hate this. It’s not about the designer pushing themselves out, making their feelings known. No one cares about the designer. Players want to experience something themselves. \n\nOur job as designers is to give them something they will feel.\n\nAesthetics: What do I want them to feel?\n\nDynamics: What kinds of emergent behaviors get us there?\n\nMechanics: What systems will give rise to those behaviors?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n