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Revision as of 14:15, 17 July 2014
Roles people can receive or take in relation to each other based on gameplay features.
This pattern is a still a stub.
While Bartle's paper "Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who suit MUDs"[1] does present categories for gamers that do have aspects of social roles, these describe player preferences. The pattern described here looks at how gameplay features can evoke Social Roles.
Social Roles often
Contents
Examples
Using the pattern
What gameplay design patterns hinder or support Social Roles depend heavily on the specifics of individual Social Roles. Examples of possible Social Roles are:
- Banned – players not allowed to play the game.
- Outcasts – players excluded from social interaction with the other players.
- Recluses – players willingly isolating themselves from social interaction with other players.
- Motivators – players providing or advocating activities and experiences in the game without seeking any in-game benefit.
- Negotiators – players negotiating between two other players.
- Mediators – players performing actions for other players, either through their own actions or by taking over other players' possibilities to influence the game. A less active form of this is that of facilitators, which may not be seen as players.
- Helpers – players actively helping other players perform actions in the game.
- Violators – players trying to affect other players’ gameplay against their will through explicit actions.
- Dominators – players trying to influence other players to perform specific actions for the player’s own in-game benefits.
- Exhibitionists – players performing actions in the game to gain the other players’ attention.
Diegetic Aspects
Interface Aspects
Narrative Aspects
Consequences
Relations
Can Instantiate
Downtime, Game-Based Social Statuses, Non-Diegetic Communication, Role Selection, Social Interaction, Togetherness, Varied Gameplay
Can Modulate
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Can Be Instantiated By
Bragging, Chat Channels, Communication Channels, Cooperation, Coordination, Entitled Players, Fudged Results, Functional Roles, Game Masters, Guilds, Guilting, Helplessness, Limited Communication Abilities, Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Multiplayer Games, Negotiation, Parties, Player Kicking, Roleplaying, Scapegoats, Social Dilemmas, Social Organizations, Spectators, Team Combos Teams, Tiered Participation
Competence Areas together with Multiplayer Games
Roleplaying together with Internal Rivalry or Thematic Consistency
Can Be Modulated By
Possible Closure Effects
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Potentially Conflicting With
Actor Detachment, Enforced Player Anonymity, Limited Communication Abilities, Possibility of Anonymity
History
New pattern created in this wiki. However, the concept was introduced in the paper Socially Adaptable Games that was presented in 2005.[2].
References
- ↑ Bartle, R. 1996 Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who suit MUDs.
- ↑ Eriksson, D., Peitz, J. & Björk, S. 2005. Socially Adaptable Games. Lightning round presentation at Changing Views: Worlds in Play, DiGRA conference 2005.
