Designing Puzzles for Collaborative Gaming Experience – CASE: eScape

@inproceedings{Korva05, abstract = {Digital games are essentially about fun, challenge and entertainment. With the increasing number of games-literate people, society is slowly learning to harness this technology for other than mainstream market exploitation, thus, driving game design into unexplored territories. Nevertheless, when observing the selection of contemporary commercial games, there seems to be little diversity in the type and forms of gameplay. There is an oversupply of competition, destruction, solo-heroism and personal sandboxes. One of the less ventured areas is games that are designed for collaboration. This paper examines the issues of puzzle or challenge design (Rollings \& Adams, 2003) in the context of collaborative gaming. Questions like ﾑHow to create meaningful puzzles requiring collaboration?ﾒ, ﾑIs there life beyond trial and error?ﾒ, and ﾓHow far game developers can go with collaboration design?ﾒ are of relevance. The questions are approached from the game design poi...}, author = {Korva, Tuomo and Manninen, Tony }, booktitle = {the International DiGRA Conference, June 16th - 20th, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/overview.php)}, citeulike-article-id = {485868}, keywords = {collaborative, computer-supported, design, dynamics, game, group, information, multiplayer, play, problem, processing, puzzles, qualitative, science, solving, studies, team}, posted-at = {2006-01-30 13:33:59}, priority = {2}, title = {Designing Puzzles for Collaborative Gaming Experience ﾖ CASE: eScape}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1892/1580}, year = {2005} }

TY - CONF ID - Korva05 L3 - citeulike-article-id:485868 TI - Designing Puzzles for Collaborative Gaming Experience – CASE: eScape T2 - the International DiGRA Conference, June 16th - 20th, 2005, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (http://www.gamesconference.org/digra2005/overview.php) N2 - Digital games are essentially about fun, challenge and entertainment. With the increasing number of games-literate people, society is slowly learning to harness this technology for other than mainstream market exploitation, thus, driving game design into unexplored territories. Nevertheless, when observing the selection of contemporary commercial games, there seems to be little diversity in the type and forms of gameplay. There is an oversupply of competition, destruction, solo-heroism and personal sandboxes. One of the less ventured areas is games that are designed for collaboration. This paper examines the issues of puzzle or challenge design (Rollings & Adams, 2003) in the context of collaborative gaming. Questions like ‘How to create meaningful puzzles requiring collaboration?’, ‘Is there life beyond trial and error?’, and “How far game developers can go with collaboration design?’ are of relevance. The questions are approached from the game design poi... KW - collaborative KW - computer-supported KW - design KW - dynamics KW - game KW - group KW - information KW - multiplayer KW - play KW - problem KW - processing KW - puzzles KW - qualitative KW - science KW - solving KW - studies KW - team AU - Korva, Tuomo AU - Manninen, Tony PY - 2005/// UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1892/1580 ER -