digital narrative: game design & player experience
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Presentation to accompany lecture in Digital Narrative Theory and Practice at Berklee College of Music by Prof. Lori Landay.TRANSCRIPT
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Game Design &Game Design &Player ExperiencePlayer Experience
Lori LandayLori LandayLHUM P433LHUM P433Digital Narrative Theory & PracticeDigital Narrative Theory & Practice
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Player experience:
A. What is the interface to this game? How does the player engage with the game?
B. Anatomy of a choice. Pick a ‘typical’ interaction with the game:
1. What happened before the player was given a choice?
2. How is the possibility of choice conveyed to the player?
3. How did the player make the choice?
4. What is the result of the choice? How will it affect future choices?
5. How is the result of the choice conveyed to the player?
6. Are there particularly enjoyable dynamics that emerge from the game’s structure? Frustrating ones? Describe them:
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similar to your interactivity models
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Electronic Arts uses the X, a two-part summary of aspects of a game under development: the razor and the slogan.
In these second-level brainstorming sessions, focus on features and clearly define what producers at Electronic Arts o en call the “X” of the game. The X is the creative center of the game. It is also an alignment tool—aligning the development team, marketing, advertising, and customers so that you can communicate the value of the game to each party in terms they understand.
Electronic Arts’ Chief Visual Officer, Glenn Entis, describes the two parts of an X as “the razor” and “the slogan.” The razor cuts—it allows the team to determine which features belong and which do not. The slogan is catchy—it allows marketing and players to determine whether or not this sounds like something they want to do. For example, the razor for the original Medal of Honor was “GoldenEye set in WWII on a PlayStation.” Entis felt this was a great razor because it allowed the team to decide what features the game absolutely needed. It was not a great slogan, however. The slogan that went on the box was, “Prepare for your finest hour.” While this was a great slogan, it would not have helped drive the creative process at all.
Tracy Fullerton, Game Design Workshop, p. 161
The X
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There are three bodies involved when someone plays a video game.
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Three clips from Moulin Rouge, dir. Baz Lurhmann, 2001
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Panic Room, dir. David Fincher,2002.
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Flower, thatgamecompany, 2009
Do you feel the wind? Where? Why?
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GAPS BETWEENGAPS BETWEENthe the physical bodyphysical body of the player,of the player,
the the screen bodyscreen body represented on the screen, perhaps by an represented on the screen, perhaps by an avatar, andavatar, and
the the imaginary body imaginary body comprised of comprised of the mental image, the mental image, the body schema (nonconscious sensory-motor processes of the body schema (nonconscious sensory-motor processes of the physical body) the physical body) and also the virtual bodyand also the virtual bodyand also the virtual bodyand also the virtual bodyand also the virtual bodyand also the virtual bodyand also the virtual bodyand also the virtual body
Sound has the potential to bridge the points of Sound has the potential to bridge the points of disconnection among these embodiment perspectives in a disconnection among these embodiment perspectives in a way that image and action cannot.way that image and action cannot.
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Walter Murch’s aural spectrum
http://transom.org/?page_id=7006
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Flower, thatgamecompany, 2009
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Char Davies, Osmose (1994-96)
unified sound, image, action in a virtual environment
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“Technology mirrors our desires; interactive technologies, in particular, reflect our desire to feel engaged.”
David Rokeby, “Transforming Mirrors: Subjectivity and Control in Interactive Media,” 1996
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