6. Games Can Change the World
• Urgent Optimism
• Social Fabric
• Blissful Productivity
• Epic Meaning
Jane McGonigal
http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gam
ing_can_make_a_better_world.html
7. Meta Game
• Others
• Metagame
• Machinima
• Modding
• Sites
11. Metagame
• Metagaming is a broad term usually used to
define any strategy, action or method used in
a game which transcends a prescribed
ruleset, uses external factors to affect the
game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or
environment set by the game. Another
definition refers to the game universe outside
of the game itself.
12. Gaming Principles
• Players
• Rules
• Challenge or Conflict
• Feedback
• Practice
• End state of winning or losing
24. Example of the Math
• Mastery for Mages
– Assumption:
• Mastery rating gives you 10% damage increase based on mana
• Your base is 10,000 dps
– Math in your head
• at 10% mana, 10,100 damage, which corresponds to the normal damage
value increased by 1% (10% of the 10% increase from Mana Adept).
• at 25% mana, 10,250 damage, which corresponds to the normal damage
value increased by 2.5% (25% of the 10% increase from Mana Adept).
• at 50% mana, 10,500 damage, which corresponds to the normal damage
value increased by 5% (50% of the 10% increase from Mana Adept).
• at 75% mana, 10,750 damage, which corresponds to the normal damage
value increased by 7.5% (75% of the 10% increase from Mana Adept).
• at 100% mana, 11,000 damage, which corresponds to the normal damage
value increased by 10% (100% of the 10% increase from Mana Adept).
25. Now..
• Which do you choose?
– Increase Mana (Intellect)?
– Increase Mastery?
– Lower Hit rating to increase Mastery?
– Lower Critical Strike Rate to increase Intellect?
– Oh what about those pesky new patch notes… :D
35. Metagame
• Metagaming is a broad term usually used to
define any strategy, action or method used in
a game which transcends a prescribed
ruleset, uses external factors to affect the
game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or
environment set by the game. Another
definition refers to the game universe outside
of the game itself.
36. Sandbox Genre
• Ability to alter the worldscape
• Minecraft
• Sims
• Second Life
• OpenSim Grids
37. Metagame
• Metagaming is a broad term usually used to
define any strategy, action or method used in
a game which transcends a prescribed
ruleset, uses external factors to affect the
game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or
environment set by the game. Another
definition refers to the game universe outside
of the game itself.
38. Mission
• Look at the Games Disposition
• Flow and Fiero
• Engage
• Meta
• Immerse
39. Synchronous Events
• Wednesday 7 pm MST (Denver) TweetChat
• Thursday 7 pm MST (Denver) Massively
Minecrat
• Saturday 9 am MST Field Trip into World of
Warcraft
• TBA Portal…..and perhaps another game
