Design, Games, & Game Design(feat. SpyParty)

Chris Heckerchrishecker.com

What is SpyParty?

Less of this......more of this.

The Spy

Note: All of this art is temporary!

The Sniper

[playtest]

Turing Test

Inverse Turing Test

Put a human in the loop where computers suck.

How to Make Things

design

build

test

Three Kinds of User Testing

depth testing

kleenex testing

focus testing

Metrics Fetishism

intuition vs. data art vs. craft

jumping vs. hillclimbing

Metrics Fetishism

intuition vs. data art vs. craft

jumping vs. hillclimbing

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Back to SpyParty…

How should one design games?

I have no idea……and neither does anybody else.

Crysis 2, 2011

?

“Never!”

Fred Ott’s Sneeze, 1894

1905 in Film

The Misadvent

ure of a French

Gentleman Without Pants at

the Zandvoort

Beach

22The Little Train

Robbery

The Sims 2, 2004

Ico, 2001

Really, now back to SpyParty…

SpyParty Aesthetic Goals

perception vs. deception & performance

attention as a resource

consequential decisions with partial information

deduction vs. intuition

analysis paralysis vs. extinct by instinct

extreme asymmetry

Design Methodology

“Depth-first, Accessibility-later”

Mechanicscomplete focus on player skill

map navigation

aiming & shooting

micro

combat strategy

behavior perception

subtle performance

playing it cool

social pattern matching

고수

Two Approaches to Emotional Depth

Long Term

The Party, 1968

Thank you!

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