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Prom Week: social physics as gameplay

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FDG '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games

Pages 319 - 321

https://doi.org/10.1145/2159365.2159425

Published: 29 June 2011 Publication History

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In this paper, we present Prom Week, a social simulation game about the interpersonal lives of a group of high school students in the week leading up to their prom. By starting the design of the game with a theory of social interaction, Prom Week is able to present satisfying stories that reflect the player's choices in a wide possibility space -- two features that rarely accompany one another. This paper reports the design details of how Prom Week utilizes social physics to achieve rich character specificity while maintaining a highly dynamic story space.

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FDG '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Foundations of Digital Games

June 2011

356 pages

ISBN:9781450308045

DOI:10.1145/2159365

Conference Chair:
Marc Cavazza
Teesside University, UK
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Katherine Isbister
Polytechnic Institute of New York University
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Charles Rich
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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