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Remember arcades when you were growing up? And after that do you remember arcades when you were in...? Right. You had to wait until you became a parent to go back to the arcades. It doesn't have to be that way! So I have a few unvarnished thoughts about augmenting the positive experiences of arcades and adding some new "features" to the arcade experience.
The arcades I remember had pinball games and many more digital games (we're talking Pac Man, Space Invaders, ...). I think almost all of them allowed more than one player; social, right? Usually the arcades played loud music, and the lighting was decidedly... dark. And there was always *one guy* you had to find if the machine ate your quarter and didn't let you play.
Now imagine the arcade as a social experiment where game designers, game enthusiasts, teachers, and researchers can convene for fun and learning. The game designers put their games out as soon as they've created an MVP with just enough features to test the gamer experience. Game players get to play the newest, most beta-est games available and influence their designs with feedback. Imagine that some games can be designed to allow researchers in social sciences to run experiments on decision making, social norms, and other forms of behavior without using surveys (yes, no surveys. YAY.).
This imagined arcade is the subject of the remainder of this page; I want to recruit game designers and makers to come together to reimagine and make new arcade games. And I want a setting where people can engage socially in play and ideas. AND "run wild experiments just like (Google) X" < v. 3/15/19/>
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Published on Jul 26, 2015
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