A systems approach to play for game design

Neil Dansey; Roger Eglin

A systems approach to play for game design

Neil Dansey, Roger Eglin

School of Creative Technologies

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Abstract

A systems perspective is taken to describe a game in which play involves generating game designs. Players are encouraged to consider assumptions, biases and oversights in their thinking, and as play continues better game ideas are expected to emerge. Generated ideas are copyright free, enabling them to be used elsewhere. Players decide which ideas are considered ‘good’ by voting for the ideas they would most like to play. This paper will outline the purpose and rules of the proposed game, illustrating from the point of view of human activity systems, group support systems and on scales of complexity of restrictions and number of interactions.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - Sept 2008
Event	Building resilience: responding to a turbulent world: UK Systems Society International Conference 2008 - Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 1 Sept 2008 → 3 Sept 2008

Conference

Conference	Building resilience: responding to a turbulent world
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Oxford
Period	1/09/08 → 3/09/08

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UKSS 2008 Paper.pdfAccepted author manuscript (Post-print), 99.4 KB

Emergent Benefits of Ambiguous Gameplay
Dansey, N., Eyles, M., Eglin, R. & Stevens, B.
1/10/07 → 1/12/14
Project: Research

University of Portsmouth (Organisational unit)
Peter Howell (Chair), Neil Dansey (Member), Gavin Wade (Member), Ted Turnbull (Member), Mark Eyles (Member), Daniel Mcguire Pinchbeck (Member), Matthew Higgins (Member), Ted Turnbull (Member), Anna Limpens (Member), Mohammed Jahangir Uddin (Member) & Leila De Lara (Member)
2006 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of network or group

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A systems approach to play for game design

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