Designing multiplayer games to facilitate emergent social behaviours online
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This paper discusses an exploratory case study of the design of games that facilitate spontaneous social interaction and group behaviours among distributed individuals, based largely on symbolic presence ‘state’ changes. We present the principles guiding the design of our game environment: presence as a symbolic phenomenon, the importance of good visualization and the potential for spontaneous self-organization among groups of people. Our game environment, comprising of a family of multiplayer ‘bumper-car’ style games, is described, followed by a discussion of lessons learned from observing users of the environment. Finally, we reconsider and extend our design principles in light of our observations.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Interact. Techn. Smart Edu.
دوره 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005