Developing a New Major

going to look at 3 games

twivia_bot – question posted on twitter, you direct message back the answer/quess, you get nudges if your answer is close, you get messages if you’re the first to answer right and if you answer right. There’s a website with some player stats, time count down to  the next round, and wher eyou can see the question

• player stats – http://www.twivial.com/?nav=top-players
• count down and info on past rounds – http://www.twivial.com/

• all extrinsic knowledge – you win based on what you know about hte real world
• rules conveyed on the twivial.com site – DM the bot your answer. wait till the next round. you can re-DM if you get a message that your guess was class. or if ya realize you messed it up (i forgot capital letters)
• each round has a victory condition – you DM the right answer. There’s no overall winning condition – just more and more rounds.
• It’s not zero sum – lots of people can win. A little more attention/recognition if you’re the first with the right answer
• limited interactivity – you DM, you get a DM back with nudge or message that you’re right
• mostly it’s player to game – you don’t really know the other people are playing till round is over
• game is explicit challenge – challenge put in by the game designer
• you have imperfect info – you don’t know what hte others have guessed or even how many people are playing
• game goal – probably best described as solution (solving problems before competition does thru reasoning and usng knowledge intrinsic or extrinsic) or outwit (use knowledge to defeat enemy), just a little race (type in the answer before them – but you both win if their answer is also right)
• no leveling up, no capture, no pattern recognition or matching…
• What could we do to make this game more fun?

facebook game – Photograb from ShuffleBrain – play (don’t invite your friends) using whatever pics are in themain window – you get feedback with each click of how accurate you were (more on the spot, the more points), sometimes ya get double points (don’t know if that’s based on teh round or your point total). At end you get the leaderboard -your total points and the top 20 which reshuffles to put your score in if you’re higher than any of them. Then you get to your rating board and it compares you with your friends on a bar graph. There are awards based on your score (i just won the novice player award after 4 rounds) Your visual score keeps getting bumped up. Each game maker has a leaderboard for hteir games – so some gmae smight have been played by 100s of people and it would be hard to break into the top 20; other games maybe only played by 1 or 2 people. Searchon Kim Gregson and play the game I created with photos from our play test day

player to game interactivity – no head to head competition with other players

has a timer – have to find as many things in each picture as you can in the time allotted – so it’s a reaction time challenge

has pattern recognition and matching

have perfect info – you can see the whole picture

you see your score (tho who has time to look since you’re trying to find circles to match)

has a social angle – can invite yoru friends, can post a news story when you create a game, can see what games your friends are paying, see how they’re doing

has advancement – you get awards, get more points – but the games are the same as far as i can tell

has solution – try to find the answer before the time’s up

uses extrinsic knowledge – pattern recognition. game really doesn’t teach you anything

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