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The Sixth Annual Game Design Think Tank
Project Horseshoe 2011
horseshoe Workgroup Reports Overview

 

Practical Psychological Manifesto

A manifesto to instill fear and lust in academic and game industry leadership, motivating them to push for collaboration

 

How to Reinvent a Genre

Defining a process by which game designers can bring about radical reinvention of new genres and providing the tools necessary to reduce the risk of genre innovation

 

Topics, Tactics and Tools for Building Authentic Long-term Engagement Mechanisms

An exploration of engagement mechanisms with an eye toward offering game makers new possibilities in meta-structural mechanisms which might change the current landscape and help us migrate toward more authentically integrated long term play experiences

 

Emotions Through Rules And Systems

Exploring the problem space represented by the extreme use of physical mechanics, absent story context, to convey emotion to the audience

 

Location-Based Games

Presents a working understanding of the variety of considerations for the design and development of location-based games by industry professionals, with the goal of helping this field of development become commercially successful via a "killer app"

 

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