Welcome to the Workshop on Research Prototyping in Games (WRPG 2012). Presentation of scope and schedule for the WRPG workshop, held the 29th of May Raleigh, North Carolina. The workshop was co-located with the Foundations for Digital Games Conference (FDG), and associated with the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

2. Research Prototyping in Games
 General: C t th b t possible
G l Create the best ibl
design, guided by design goals.
 Here: Create a prototype that can yield
the most knowledge or insight to a
particular question or area of inquiry.
 Build it to understand it (Stern & Mateas
2005))
 Wicked Problems (Churchman 1967)

3. Challenges
 To do game design, but not only aiming
to do a good design, but also gain
answers to certain questions.
 Design for the (always limited) play
tests: to balance how big or small the
vertical slice should be
be.

4. Introductions
 Organizers: Mirjam P Eladhari (Malta University, Gotland
University), Elina M.I. Ollila (Independent), Anne Sullivan
(Univ Of California, Santa Cruz)
(Univ. California
 Program Committee: Stephane Bura (Namaste Ent.), Dan
Cook (Spry Fox) Joris Dormans (Univ Of Amsterdam)
(Univ. Amsterdam),
Jussi Holopainen (Nokia), Ian Horswill (Northwestern
University), Mark Nelson (IT University of Copenhagen),
Brian Schwab (Blizzard Entertainment)
 Speakers: Mark Nelson, Emmet Tomai, Rosendo Salazar,
Dave Salinas, Jon Manker
 Participants

5. Program
9:00a - 9:30a Welcome
9:30a - 10:30a Morning Session 1
9:30a - 10:00a - Prototyping Kant-inspired Reflexive Game Mechanics - Mark Nelson
10:00a - 10:30a - An MMORPG Prototype for Investigating Adaptive Quest Narratives and Player
Behavior - Emmet Tomai, Rosendo Salazar and Dave Salinas
10:30a - 11:00a Break
11:00a - noon Morning Session 2
11:00a - 11:30a - Testing the Designscape – Prototyping a Game Prototyping Tool - Jon Manker
11:30a - noon - The Research Prototyping Toolbox - Elina MI Ollila
noon - 1:30p Lunch
1:30p 2:00p Presentation of workshop
1 30 - 2 00 P t ti f k h
2:00p - 3:00p - Group work
3:00p - 3:30p Break
3:30p - 4:15p - Group work
4:15p - 5:00p - Discussion and wrap-up