Neither playing nor gaming: Pottering in games
Paper in proceeding, 2012
Games can support many types of activities. This paper explores one of these, pottering, the placid but yet focused activity of arranging and rearranging things, taking care of them, "sorting them out". Five games which support pottering are analyzed using gameplay design patterns to show how game mechanics can give rise to the activity. As a result, six patterns especially linked to pottering are presented in greater detail. Moreover, the idea of viewing games as artifacts that can support several, sometimes overlapping, activities, is being explored and discussed.
Design
Computer software
Gameplay Design Patterns
Gameplay
Pottering
Interactive computer graphics
Design Patterns
Gameplay Design
Author
Sus Lundgren
Chalmers, Applied Information Technology (Chalmers), Interaction design
Staffan Björk
University of Gothenburg
2012 Foundation of Digital Games Conference, FDG 2012, Raleigh, 29 May-1 June 2012
113-120
978-1-4503-1333-9 (ISBN)
Subject Categories
Computer and Information Science
DOI
10.1145/2282338.2282363
ISBN
978-1-4503-1333-9