2010-03-09 21:21:37
GDC10 session 3 What Virtual Worlds can learn from social games

What Virtual Worlds can learn from social games. Speaker: Sulka Haro A little bit to fast to make proper notes...

anyway:

it is all about friends

paralell play

virtual world is hard to find your friends
virtual worlds are obsessed with real time

publishing news about your world makes it feel more alive and real

how easy you get into?

go where the users are
you can't assumed that users will fix the computers

faster clients more user more retention

no signup
facebook connect, twitter, google

automatic friend finding

placeness
you need to justify why your world game is a world

make friend finding easy
enable meaning full gameplay
more...