This slide I made talks about the Player Experience and how games could be classify to understand their nature. -2011 Lecture-The Game: A powerful tool

1. PLAYER, PLAY GAMES Alvaro Gonzalez Game Designer /ThePlayer Experience /GameClassification /From Paidia to Ludus /From Ludus to Hobby /From Hobby to Gamification --THE GAME A POWERFUL TOOL

3. Anoutcomewith no possibility of error orsurprise.

5. Continuity and constant response

8. Winner’striumphis precise and has incontestable value.

9. Limits are defined and shouldnot be outsideassistance.

10. Winnerappearsto be betterthantheloser.

11. Sustainedattention, appropriate training, assiduousapplication and desiretowin are qualities of Agon.

12. Need discipline and perseverance.

13. Playersevokethebestpossiblegamecapable of.

15. Decisions are independentformtheplayer.

16. Winningistheresult of fateratherthantriumphingover and adversary.

17. Destinyisthesoleartisan of victory

18. Winningmeansthatoneplayer has been more favoredbyfortunethantheother.

19. Chances constitutestheunique appeal of thegame.

20. Players are entirelypassive.

21. Havefairplayunder ideal conditions

22. Compensate in proportiontotheriskinvolved.

23. Equalizethecompetitorstheirrisks and profits.

24. Abolish natural oracquireddifferences

26. Believe and/ormakebelieve.

27. Theplayertemporaryforgetshispersonalities in ordertofeignanother.

28. Thepleasurelies in beingorpassingforanother.

29. Look forempathy.

30. Needcomplicity.

31. Createsidentification.

32. Theactivityisruledbyimagination, interpretation and mime.

33. Shouldhave, liberty, convention, suspension of reality, and delimitation's of space and time.

34. Theessencereliesonconstantinvention.

35. Shouldfascinatethespectator, whileavoidingan error thatmight lead thespectatorto break thespell.

37. Momentarydestroythestability of perception.

38. Theplayer look forthedisturbancethatprovokesvertigo.

39. Reflectplayer’scrude and brutal form of hispersonalityexpression

40. Should be freedomtoacceptorrefusetheexperience, strict and fixedlimits, and separation of therest of reality.

43. Paidia: Elementaryneedfordisturbance and tumult.

44. Paidia: Disorderedagitation, animpulsive and easyrecreation.

45. Paidia: Pleasurefordestruction and breakingthings.

47. Ludus: Pleasure in solvingarbitraryproblems.

48. Ludus: Reaching a solutions has no othergoalthan personal satisfactionforitsown sake.

50. Oneisless inspiredby personal achievement (ludus).

51. Solitarypleasure (ludus) haveto be substitutedby a contest.

53. Hobby isanyoccupationthatisprimary a compensationtotheinjurytothepersonalitycausedbythedailywork.

55. Thedevelopment of the hobby.

56. There are no more injurytothepersonalitycausedbythedailywork. Hobby and Obligationsstarttomerg.

58. thanks alvarogonzalez.mail@gmail.com AlvaroGonzalez GameDesigner alvarogonzalez.skype @WASDCtrlSPACE “I work as a Lead Game Designer and Senior Producer for the Kef Sensei game developer company, which in turn provides the well known international game publishers Playfirst, BigFishGames among others.. I have a kin sense of effectiveness for the games I passionately design. I work writing the plot, developing the idea, and supervising the programming. I also deal with the client and respond requests.My investigative approach is the generator of thousands of very original game ideas and designs that I thoroughly carry out and put in the street with efficiency. Both Kef Sensei projects and my personal Boardgames projects are done with passion and creativity.“ Meet Latin American Game Developers meetlatinamericangamedev@gmail.com @LatAmeGameDev References: Rules of Play: GameDesign Fundamentals, Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman Cambridge MIT Press, 2004 “TheDefinition of Play,” Roger Caillois. Man, Play and Games, ed. LibrairieGallimard, 1958