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WHO CARES ABOUT SOCIAL GAMES?a talk for CompuGirls
John Carter McKnight
July 2011
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who am I and why am I here?
adjunct professor of lawPhD student in “Human & Social
Dimensions of Science & Technology”
I study how people build communities and negotiate rules in online spaces
and I play a lot of games!
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“Games are a series of interesting choices” – Sid Meier
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Social games (Facebook games) get trashed by game developers,
who don’t find the choices interesting
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why not?
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who makes games?
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who plays games?
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“but those aren’t games games!”
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what kinds of choices are interestingto you?
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the game mechanics – those “interesting choices” – are actually the same as in a game that
developers, critics – and game studies professors - love
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same choices, different context!
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so what?
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who decides what choices are “interesting”? you do!
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great games – like great books – are the ones you can come back to
and find something interesting every time.
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so….what’s interesting?