Online Gaming Communities: A Practical Shortlist
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چکیده
Relating to the shifting role of users in becoming active contributors to the design process, in this paper we look into online gaming communities. A shortlist of conditions for such communities to exist is given, and potential benefits for designers are listed. From these, five guidelines for creating such a community are proposed, which are examined in the light of setting up an online community for a game about climate change that is being developed, which is named “Clima Futura”.
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