Cooperative Game Design Patterns-El-Nasr

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#notesFromPaper Year : Tags : multiplayer #reflectiveFrameworkValidation Authors: El-Nasr Aghabeigi Milam Erfani Lameman Mah

Design patterns that encourage cooperative play. Also, metrics to track whether cooperative play is happening.

To actually generate the patterns, they did an analysis of 215 games. Didn’t validate ’em with designers, instead the majority of the validation was actually around the cooperative play metrics. For that, they did play sessions, talked with experts, and sent it to professional game designers.