Nordic New Wave: Technology and the New Social Game
As high-speed internet became cheaper and more widely available, local multiplayer videogames ceded ground to online gaming. As 007 gave way to Halo, split-screen turned into Xbox Live, which turned into Facebook. Today, the term “social gaming” refers to a specific brand of manipulative, crowd-sourced virtual chores in which friends are treated more like resources than … well, friends.
But to go forward, you must sometimes go back, and there’s a growing number of creative tinkerers busy rewiring our expectations of, and interactions with, technology to create large-scale, physical multiplayer games that embrace your friends as tangible people.
“The best party games pull people away from the screen, and make it possible for the crowd to see what the player is doing.”
And making the best party games is exactly what he and Doug Wilson seem to be trying to do.
And making the best party games is exactly what he and Doug Wilson seem to be trying to do.
Source: destructoid.com
