CCT311H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Artificial Reality, Scalability, Strategic Dominance

• School: UTM
• Department: Communication, Culture and Technology
• Course: CCT311H5
• Professor: Artur Palma Mungioli

Document Summary

Entering the artificial reality: the hero"s journey, 1949: joseph campbell publishes the hero with the thousand faces , book examines traditional myths, and modern storytelling, proposes that there is a universal storyform called the monomyth or the. Hero"s journey : 1993: hollywood screenwriter chris vogler boiled down the book to a more accessible form, monomyth: a 12 step program, 1. Tests, allies, and enemies (road of trials: 7. The approach to the innermost cave: 8. Immersion: gamers like to feel totally involved in a world, the willing suspension of disbelief , this state of mind is easy to shatter, beginning to identify. Isolate the newbies from the veterans, or: 2. Completely exclude player vs. player, make pvp strictly consensual, Reward the veterans for helping newbies: the players make the game, ex. problems with excessive player-killing, players formed their own anti-player-killing guilds.