Couldn't find this anywhere in the forums.

http://fury.com/2010/02/jesse-shells-mindblowing-talk-on-the-future-of-games-dice-2010/

I found it pretty good and an interesting view - what about you?

Ahh yeah I watched this a few weeks ago, I found it pretty cool, how basically advertising would become a game with points given etc. You guys should really watch this video.

I loved the idea of the university professor giving out experience points for attendance and assignments instead of grades too. That'd be freaking awesome! xD

Wow that's an amazing talk. Everyone should watch it!

He should have talked a bit about WoW, since I'm sure they used a few tricks and add tricks all the time to keep people playing.

Great talk! I wish more people on this website would've paid attention to this thread! Reasonable, great post man, great post!

I found it very interesting. The potential mechanics for paying were quite fascinating, as were some of his views on future trends. I liked his style, too - obviously pretty passionate about what's going on here.

so about that game he said needed to be made near the start... wonder who's going to pick that challenge up?

Blizzard definitely is already!

Part of the design requires fun game mechanics instead of focusing on the story/ genre.


After hearing that talk, it made it sound as though SONY made a lot of mistakes in home and PSN. They might just be developing blindly, instead of considering psychological tricks in order to encourage players to keep playing and eventually spending. That was just my impression.

I found it quite interesting myself. The use of psychology in game design an theory is one if not the 1st direction's of how to get the consumer to follow the Leader:

which the Leader is the Game or technology or thing's in everyday life. getting everday life experiences to change toward the follow the Leader.

the infulence of Game design an theory is quite astounding how it interact's with many thing's in everyday life. one only has to look at Chess as an example:

with the game of Chess there's

tactic's

political direction from the foundation of Chess IE: agent tom is a pawn. agent rick ia a rook, agent tom is more or less can be eliminated instead of agent rick.

etc.

Just starting watching and he said beyond facebook.
I hope it's not about that. I'll persevere with it.

That would just be annoying as hell.

Well, it's not all about Facebook, but it is more about new trends and possible future directions than probably those of us who still snuggle down to play that big, long SP campaign we just forked out hard cash for.

Interesting, though.