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• Weekend Design Challenge: Making friends

  This week, let's think a bit about socialization in online games. Specifically, how can the design encourage people to make friends with others? Some thoughts in the full article. Read More... Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 1:16 AM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments

• Weekend Design Challenge: Cards

  This week, we'll be open-ended: design a game involving cards. Some thoughts in the full article. Read More... Posted Monday, March 24, 2008 1:53 AM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Game Development, Games Design, Weekend Design Challenge, Game Design, design challenge, cards

• Weekend Design Challenge: Time zones

  After a bit of travel, time zones become an interesting topic for me. This weekend's challenge: how do you deal with the fact that people from different time zones can all play the same game? Some thoughts in the full article. Read More... Posted Sunday, March 16, 2008 9:36 PM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments

• Weekend Design Challenge: Training the newbies

  This weekend's challenge comes form Bobby Thurman. (company website: http://callipygiangames.com/) He writes, "Problem: How to do you teach a friendless and newbie player about MMOs without overwhelming them?" I thought this was an interesting question, so I'm presenting it to you guys. More thoughts in the full article. Read More... Posted Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:41 AM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Game Development, Weekend Design Challenge, Game Design, design challenge, mmo, training, newbies

• Weekend Design Challenge: Influencing player behavior

  One of the interesting discussions about game design is how much we can influence players. On one hand, some people claim that video games can corrupt people and make them do bad things; a claim we like to refute. However, as Raph Koster is fond of pointing out, claiming that games can't influence people takes away what could be one of the medium's greatest strengths. After all, games can be used to teach, which is influencing the player on a significant level. So, this weekend design challenge is Read More... Posted Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:54 PM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments

• Weekend Design Challenge: Deliver the bad news

  I'm going to go a bit off the beaten track for this design challenge. Instead of being a designer, put yourself in a community manager's shoes. Your challenge: deliver some bad news to the community. More details in the full post. Read More... Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 12:31 AM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Game Development, Games Design, Weekend Design Challenge, Community, design challenge, online rpg, bad news, community management

• Weekend Design Challenge: What does gaming mean to you?

  Let's go a bit more meta this week. Take a deep look inside you and figure out what gaming really means to you, both as a player and a designer. Some thoughts in the full article. Read More... Posted Monday, January 21, 2008 12:00 AM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments

• Weekend Design Challenge: Something clever

  So, this (delayed) challenge is that you need to do something clever. You can post about it if you want to show off to other people. :) My example and a bit of explanation in the full article. Read More... Posted Monday, January 14, 2008 4:48 PM from Psychochild's Blog | 0 Comments Filed under: Game Development, Games Design, Weekend Design Challenge, Game Design, project horseshoe, clever, design challenge, t-shirt, will wright