Giving Players a Chance to Socialize
Raph Koster is a designer who’s blog posts are always worth reading. His thoughts on the future of single-player were a big inspiration on my decision to focus on Social Games. He’s just dropped a big post on ways to make virtual spaces more social, and there’s plenty of good stuff in there to mull [...]
Successful Social Games are all about Status
Traditional games are primarily focused on the experience of play. It’s the old “gameplay is everything” model, and while that’s still important, the equation has changed a bit. What a social player is most concerned about is status.
Status in Social Games: There’s two different kinds
It’s common to think that a shiny new piece of technology brings with it an entirely unique experience of the world. For a number of reasons people involved with cutting edge experiences can dismiss thousands of years of human history and try to treat If other people are your resources when you play a social [...]