UBM Tech - Game Network

My Shopping Cart

[ 0 ] items in cart

View Cart | Checkout

Game Developer Research

Research Reports

Gamasutra

Contractor Listings

GDC Vault

Individual Subscription

GDC Audio Recordings

App Developers Conference 2013

GDC Next 2013

GDC Europe 2013

	GDC 2013
	GDC Online 2012
	GDC Europe 2012
	GDC 2012
	GDC 2011
	GDC 10
	GDC 09
	GDC Austin 08
	GDC Mobile 08
	GDC 08
	GDC Austin 07
	GDC Mobile 07
	GDC 07
	GDC 06
	GDC 05
	GDC 04
	GDC 03
	GDC 01
	GDC 2000 & Before

Newest Item(s)

Why Now Is the Best Time Ever to Be a Game Developer

Ingress: Design Principles Behind Google's Massively Multiplayer Geo Game

Playing with 'Game'

Gathering Your Party with Project Eternity (GDC Next 10)

D4: Dawn of the Dreaming Director's Drama (GDC Next 10)

Using Plot Devices to Create Gameplay in Storyteller (GDC Next 10)

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Making CounterSpy (GDC Next 10)

Luck and Skill in Games

Minimalist Game Design for Mobile Devices

Broken Age: Rethinking a Classic Genre for the Modern Era (GDC Next 10)

Storefront > GDC Vault Store - Audio Recordings > Topic > Game Design

View larger image

QTY:

Small Worlds: Competitive and Cooperative Structures in Online Worlds
Price	$5.95
Adjustment
Type
Stock	Unlimited
Status
Weight	2 lb, 1 oz
SKU	GDC-03-034
Statistics

Description

Small Worlds: Competitive and Cooperative Structures in Online Worlds,
434

Game Design, Lecture

Raph Koster
Chief Creative Officer, Sony Online Entertainment

Rich Vogel
,
Massively multiplayer or not, online worlds tend to form characteristic social structures. Research in psychology and sociology has shown that many of these replicate patterns found in the real world. This lecture will discuss topics such as the Tragedy of the Commons, scale-free networks and how they impact community formation, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and power-law distribution of talent. We'll then turn around and show the direct applicability of these constructs to issues such as in-game community size, the viability of player vs player combat, and the relative audience sizes of twitch-based online games versus RPGs.

The audience should leave the lecture with a sense of: - how game systems impact the nature of the community that forms - how players cooperate and what induces them to cooperate - what the tradeoffs in audience and community are between skill-based and cumulative character games.

Please leave this field blank.