Design Games

Pecha-Kucha

Andy Echenique

Fall 2010

The Breakdown

Types of games I play Board games Puzzles Video Games

Games I am interested in making Board games Ethnography of game communities

Main Themes

Collaborative games

Collaboration in games

Pretty much anything related to collaboration Cross modality Cross cultural

The Boardgames

Shadows over Camelot Origins Award Best Board Game of the Year, 2006

Shadows Over Camelot

Cooperative game All players against the game Distribution of work Different roles

Cooperation, With A Twist

Yet, there is a traitor Traitor is assigned in the beginning Traitor wins if everyone else loses

Bang!

Italian card game Technically a card game

Cooperative Aspects

Everyone has a different role Deputys wins if Sheriff wins Renegades win if Outlaws win People end up sacrificing themselves!

Games Without Backstabbing

Puzzles Sudoku Scrabble

Strategy

Chess Shoji Mahjong

Video Games

Team Fortress 2– Team focused

– Nine classes

– Strategy

Cooperative Elements

Some classes work well together– Healer and support classes

Coordinate with the team Multiplayer only, so you are always

playing with humans (can be a good thing and a bad thing)

And yes...

There is backstabbing... But only for your team! (so it's

cooperative)

Prospective Projects

Creating the world's most accurate backstabbing simulator?– NO!!

A game where collaboration is key– Yet collaboration is still only an option

– Cooperative goal where the enemy is the game itself

Possible Forms

Pretty much anything– Card game

– Board game

– Video game

Example

Board game where there are limited tokens on the board that players collect. Player with the most tokens wins

If two players have the same amount, they both win

Players can choose to have an alliance with other members, or realize that they may not be able to if there is an odd number left

Prospective Studies

Looking at games that may already implement collaborative and competitive elements at the same time

Understanding why people choose the routes they do– Is it the rules that make people collaborate?

– Will the same people choose to be traitorous in one game and then cooperative in another session of the same game?

Bonus Points

Incorporates people of different cultures Including

– Different ethnic backgrounds

– Different field Incorporating different types of

communication– Only typing

– Or using a sketchpad with no words

– Thus people with different languages can work together

Example

An example may be a math major in China and a design major in India working together

They have to work together on a game where they solve a puzzle

They have to decide as a group whether the puzzle can be solved mathematically or creatively, or any other way that may be more intuitive to either of them

Can use either math as a form of communication or pictures

Contact me

I am open to talking more about any of these ideas and incorporating any ideas you may have

Talk to me after class or via email at:apexinandy@gmail.com

Thank you