I even thought about picking up a book about manipulation, to change the snipers of spies attention or expectations, but with that subject you touch on the meta-game question of what is ethical I think.^^ It would be perhaps one of the first videogames to which people apply science to play on a highly skilled level?! These seem to be interesting things to learn and know about and I hope it will be able to use them in SpyParty in some form or the other. Your memory is also changed in somewhat the same way I believe, and we mostly tend to remember the meaning, or our interpretation of something, then the exact settings. What you perceive is partly changed by your brain, in correlation to your expectations and past experiences. On of the most promising leads I found in that book was the studies of attention and perception, as well as memory. That sentence especially caught my attention, since, believe it or not, I picked up a book with an overview about psychology because of SpyParty. This makes the game feel so (unrealistically) close! G’luck dude, wish I could be there – the game sounds sweet! Walk them through how the game works by getting them to play a round non-competitively, with each party acting out the gameplay (“then he sees you screw up, and if he’s sure of it he shoots”, etc). I’d also recommend having a practice round when it’s a player’s first turn with the game.
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It’s probably going to destroy your voice way faster, but I noticed that people really dug it when we personally were acting as the tutorial and helping them learn how to play the game, because in that way they feel like they’re getting a unique insight into how the game works from its creator.
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To be honest, I think you could have laid out the information a lot more succinctly – I doubt people will want to read a four page manual before trying your game.Īfter having showed off a pretty complex game to a pretty casual audience recently, I’d definitely recommend being right next to the player and talking them through it, encouraging them to ask you questions. Here’s a teaser of our booth while under construction this evening: Let me know what you think in comments, or if parts are confusing, or if it makes sense. After you play a few times, you start to get to even more depth that I couldn’t fit on here (as if it’s not way too dense already!). This document represents a fairly accurate beginner’s view of the state of SpyParty right now. Here is the print-ready PDF, which assumes you can print two-sided, and then you fold it in half to get the four-page booklet. If I’d put it up yesterday I could have taken feedback and made it better, but as Donald Rumsfeld always said, “You go to PAX with the Four Page Instruction Manual you printed.” I didn’t even have time to read the whole thing. I’m sorry I didn’t get this up yesterday, not only because it deprived you, the wonderful fans, of a day of plumbing its mysteries, but also because I literally finished it and hit send today, 11 minutes after the absolute latest deadline the printer gave me. I really have no idea whether anyone will read it at all. I’m 100% confident I will lose my voice every day, but I’d like it to be from talking to fans about the gameplay, not repeating what the A button does over and over again. My goal with printing up this document is to save my voice for actually new and interesting conversation. I felt like I had to print this because of the one downside of the Depth-first, Accessibility-later development methodology I’m following. Okay, here is the slightly infamous Four Page Instruction Manual for playing SpyParty at PAX.