2024-0319-2203 Designing Social Play for Sky Children of the Light

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• Play structure

  • Linear LD was pulling players through the story
  • Not working, people weren't interacting at all

• Goal oriented play is the enemy of social play

  • Side-paths slow down players so they can interact
  • Applies to many shared goals, not just level traversal

• Early prototyping

  • Focus on positive multiplayer moments
    • How to create more?
  • Hand-holding feature
    • Player create experiences for each other
    • Allow player to help each other
  • Gifting to show appreciation
    • Player decide what is valuable
      • Players get hearts from gifts
      • Hearts unlock outfits

• Social play

  • Any activity performed near other players, which encourages simulating the thoughts and feelings of others
  • 在场效应 social presence
  • Heart economy and outfits

• Social gameplay loop

  • Social game loop
    • Express themselves
    • Rewards allow players more options to express themselves
    • Players are rewarded for entertaining or helping each other
    • Rewards allow players more options to express themselves

• Teaching social mechanics

  • Rituals exist to teach social interactions
  • Players identities are initially hidden
  • Reveal ritual repeatedly exposes players to new potential relationships

• Growing relationships

  • Players can unlock abilities as their relationships grow
    • Hand holding
    • Players set the growth pace. Creating barriers for interaction reduces toxicity
    • 只有足够亲密才能解锁

• Do not confuse cooperative play with social play

  • E.g.,
    • Kill a monster together
    • Press two switches at the same time to progress
  • 目标相同不意味着能让两人产生社交联系

• Cooperative social play

  • 人们永远可以自由行动，只有出于自愿才会产生真正的联系
  • 将对方也当做真正的人来看待，而不是“完成任务的工具”

• Encouraging social play

  • 目标导向是 social play 的敌人
  • 要形成联系、共情
  • 表达是形成联系的核心

• Allow interactions to happen naturally

  • Players have to trust
    • 不能让玩家觉得这是设计师设计好的
  • 取消 send to all
    • 来提供更多建立联系的机会
  • 作为设计师，应该做的是提供机会，而不是引导玩家做任何事

• Removing the designer

  • 让玩家有机会体会社交中的各种体验（好的和不好的的都是）

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L-Zotero citation key

https://gdcvault.com/play/1026818/Designing-Social-Play-for-Sky

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