{"id":302,"date":"2020-11-20T13:10:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T13:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/?page_id=302"},"modified":"2020-12-11T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:00:21","slug":"assignment-game-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/assignment-game-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment: Game Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Part 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/play\/1014555\/Social-Mechanics-for-Social-Games\">Watch Raph Koster\u2019s talk Social Mechanics for Social Games.<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Individually: Find 10 examples of these social mechanics in existing games (no more than one example for each mechanic).<\/li>\n<li>Post a one-sentence explanation and a screenshot (if useful) for each of them.<\/li>\n<li>Get back to your team and discuss if any of the mechanics can be meaningfully integrated in your game. It&#8217;s just as a thought experiment, no pressure to actually do it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Part 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In teams: List the core <strong>multiplayer<\/strong> mechanics in your game.<\/li>\n<li>Individually: for each of them, find a couple of examples of existing games that employ similar mechanics. Find videos that exemplify them.<\/li>\n<li>In teams: discuss your findings and determine the game\/mechanic that is the most relevant for your project, or the one worth researching. Play the game together as a team. Also, try to play &#8220;subversively&#8221;, attempting to break or spoil the game.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 1 Watch Raph Koster\u2019s talk Social Mechanics for Social Games. Individually: Find 10 examples of these social mechanics in existing games (no more than one example for each mechanic). Post a one-sentence explanation and a screenshot (if useful) for each of them. Get back to your team and discuss if any of the mechanics &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/assignment-game-research\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment: Game Research&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-302","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}