Skills Week / Adam Martin / How Is Designing An MMO Different?
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MMO == Community + Game. MMO designers do more than just extra balancing and include various roles like content, environment, systems, and balance designers. When designing an MMO, it's important to consider how the game offers something for Bartle's player types of killers, achievers, socializers, and explorers.
Skills Week / Adam Martin / How Is Designing An MMO Different?
- 1. How is designing an MMO different? Adam Martin NCsoft Europe
- 3. Massively
- 4. Multiplayer
- 5. Online
- 6. Massively Multiplayer Online (game)
- 7. mouthful
- 8. “ MMO”
- 10. WHY?
- 12. (“online”)
- 13. play alone
- 14. (“multiplayer”)
- 17. (“massively”)
- 18. What does a typical MMO look like?
- 19. ...like this?
- 20. ( )
- 21. what else?
- 22. top-10 MMOs?
- 28. only 5
- 29. others?
- 32. What’s an MMO?
- 33. MMO != MMORPG
- 34. MMO != 3D landscape
- 35. MMO == Virtual World + Game
- 36. def: Virtual World Provides extra contexts for your activities social (relationships; audiences) environmental (persistence; progression)
- 38. audience
- 39. what you do matters
- 40. BONUS:
- 41. do things ... to other people
- 42. # 2: stage
- 44. geography (local + not-local)
- 46. sub-communities
- 47. Summary 1/5 MMO == Community + Game
- 48. MMO #1
- 49. RPG
- 50. RPG + chat
- 51. =
- 53. MMO #2
- 54. traditional game
- 55. traditional game + community
- 57. ?
- 58. another kind of MMO
- 60. MMO #3
- 61. social network
- 62. social network + game
- 72. “ Calan’s levelling up ... don’t fall behind”
- 74. poking
- 75. "Enough with the Poking, Lets Just Have Sex" A Facebook group which, as of September 2007 , has more than 250,000 members.
- 76. another kind of MMO
- 78. MMO #4
- 79. novel game
- 80. novel game + novel community
- 84. $200,000 prize
- 85. $200,000 prize (yes, really)
- 86. Timeline... June 2005 February 2007
- 87. Timeline... June 2005 February 2007
- 88. 50+ fake websites Hacking email accounts Live events with actors 5+ blogs of in-game characters Phone calls, email trails, encrypted newspaper articles, ...
- 91. who’s that?
- 92. who’s that?
- 93. 3P == The Third Power “ an ancient society of very secret intentions”
- 94. What the **** was that all about?
- 95. (a new identity) (“O1”)
- 97. “ an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform” (an Alternate Reality Game)
- 98. another kind of MMO
- 100. Summary 2/5 MMO == Community + Game MMO != MMORPG
- 101. Design techniques?
- 102. massively multiplayer online game
- 103. massively multiplayer online GAME
- 104. MMO design == normal design ?
- 105. MMO design == normal design ?
- 106. Reason 1 MMO == Community + Game
- 107. (come back to later)
- 108. Reason 2 Revenue model
- 109. subscription
- 110. micro-payments
- 111. advertising
- 112. TIME == MONEY
- 113. TIME == MONEY
- 114. TIME == MONEY
- 115. play the game,
- 116. keep playing,
- 117. never stop
- 118. stop playing == MONEY
- 119. problem?
- 120. 20-40 hours total (traditional retail game)
- 121. 20-40 hours per month (typical MMO game)
- 122. “ Over 200 hours of gameplay”
- 123. = less than a year (typical MMO game)
- 124. not so bad?
- 125. power-levelling
- 126. twinking
- 129. approx 1 month
- 130. Launched: 1997
- 131. Launched: 1997 ... 10 YEARS (and counting)
- 132. ARRGH!
- 134. keep coming back
- 136. If you keep coming back...
- 138. Summary 3/5 MMO == Community + Game MMO != MMORPG MMO Designers do more than just extra balancing
- 139. MMO Designers...
- 140. Content designer (including: writers)
- 141. Environment designer (a.k.a. World Builder)
- 142. Systems designer
- 143. Balance designer
- 144. Quest designer
- 145. Summary 4/5 MMO == Community + Game MMO != MMORPG MMO Designers do more than just extra balancing Many different types of “Game Designer” on an MMO
- 146. How do we design for this?
- 147. History Lesson
- 148. 1978
- 149. 1978
- 150. a small software company
- 151. a small software company
- 153. Richard Bartle
- 154. Dr. Bartle
- 156. “ one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry”
- 157. “ one of the pioneers of the massively multiplayer online game industry” (Wikipedia, so it must be true)
- 158. ...time passed...
- 160. "What do people want out of a MUD?"
- 161. The Debate several hundred bulletin-board postings 15 individuals almost the entire set of active wizzes during that period When the participants had finally run out of new things to say ...
- 162. The Results “people habitually found the same kinds of thing about the game "fun", but there were several (four, in fact) sub-groupings into which opinion divided”
- 163. Killers
- 164. Achievers
- 165. Socializers
- 166. Explorers
- 167. ACTING INTERACTING PLAYERS WORLD
- 170. (will repeat address at end)
- 171. How do we design for this?
- 172. How do we design for this? Use Bartle’s types as a yardstick What does your game offer Killers? ...Achievers? ...Socializers? ...Explorers?
- 173. How do we design for this? (+ standard game design)
- 174. Summary 5/5 MMO == Community + Game MMO != MMORPG MMO Designers do more than just extra balancing Many different types of “Game Designer” on an MMO Use Bartle’s-Types to check your game-design
- 175. The End MMO Games rock! Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm Contact details amartin @ ncsoft.com http://tmachine1.dh.bytemark.co.uk/blog
- 176. Extras... Community MMO as “Location in which to Socialize” (pub)
- 177. Extras...
- 178. Extras...