Affective Games

Learning Goal: I’m working on a creative writing question and need a sample draft to help me learn.

Please consider this transcript by Paolo from 2017 https://molleindustria.org/GamesForCities/

In this class, please play two of the following titles:

https://molleindustria.org/nova-alea/

https://www.molleindustria.org/lichenia/

https://www.molleindustria.org/en/oiligarchy/

http://unmanned.molleindustria.org/

It will likely take you at least an hour to play each game (if not more) so you will want to be sure to have budgeted enough time to think, reflect, and write.

Question Prompts

1. How does the feeling differ from other complex simulation games?
2. Does it matter that you are playing a “God game� where you are no longer omnipotent? Do “God Games� reveal important truths or obscure reality?
3. If you were winning your game on the mechanical level, how did it feel for the game to decide that you were losing?
4. What seems to be the process for assigning the procedural elements of the game? What parts of these experiences is included, what is excluded?
5. How can you tell if these games are empirically reliably indices of reality? Does it mater if they are not?
6. Do these games make you more empathetic or inspire you to take action?

Grading Criteria

Your lab report should be at least two pages and thoughtfully address all six questions.