design, games, & game design (feat. spyparty) chris hecker chrishecker.com

28
gn, Games, & Game De (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Upload: mason-gray

Post on 26-Mar-2015

217 views

Category:

Documents


1 download

TRANSCRIPT

Page 1: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

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

Chris Heckerchrishecker.com

Page 2: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

What is SpyParty?

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

Page 3: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

The Spy

Note: All of this art is temporary!

Page 4: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

The Sniper

Page 5: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

[playtest]

Page 6: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Turing Test

Page 7: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Inverse Turing Test

Put a human in the loop where computers suck.

Page 8: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

How to Make Things

design

build

test

Page 9: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com
Page 10: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Three Kinds of User Testing

depth testing

kleenex testing

focus testing

Page 11: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Metrics Fetishism

intuition vs. data art vs. craft

jumping vs. hillclimbing

Page 12: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Metrics Fetishism

intuition vs. data art vs. craft

jumping vs. hillclimbing

&

&

&

Page 13: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Back to SpyParty…

How should one design games?

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

Page 14: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Crysis 2, 2011

Page 15: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

?

Page 16: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

“Never!”

Page 17: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Fred Ott’s Sneeze, 1894

Page 18: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

1905 in Film

The Misadvent

ure of a French

Gentleman Without Pants at

the Zandvoort

Beach

22The Little Train

Robbery

Page 19: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

The Sims 2, 2004

Page 20: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Ico, 2001

Page 21: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Really, now back to SpyParty…

Page 22: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

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

Page 23: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Design Methodology

“Depth-first, Accessibility-later”

Page 24: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com
Page 25: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Mechanicscomplete focus on player skill

map navigation

aiming & shooting

micro

combat strategy

behavior perception

subtle performance

playing it cool

social pattern matching

고수

Page 26: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Two Approaches to Emotional Depth

Page 27: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Long Term

The Party, 1968

Page 28: Design, Games, & Game Design (feat. SpyParty) Chris Hecker chrishecker.com

Thank you!

spyparty.comfacebook.com/SpyPartytwitter.com/SpyParty