Thrills&Chills Management (Part 2 - Behind the curtain) 7 comments

19 May 2016 @ 17:21, by Max Sandor Thrills&Chills Management is an essential tool of Game Management to motivate the players initiating and maintaining a game. It supersedes conventional 'Rewards & Risk' models which are true only in games which have been compromised (see below). It introduces the concept of 'Essences' as a 'third E' in addition to Efforts and Emotions. A THRILL is the indication of a MOVE towards a desired game position. Take notice here, it is the MOVE, not the fulfillment of the action itself. A CHILL is the opposite of a thrill - a desired position has been thwarted. Both Thrills and Chills, in the definitions here used, are NOT emotions even though they typically prompt players & spectators to have some of the latter. It is common to confuse thrills'n'chills with the emotions of celebration and disappointment after a victory or a defeat. This happens to spectators which are NOT players. A perfect player does not feel any emotion during the duration of a game - it would hinder peak performance as a player. Again, Thrills&Chills are mirrored down from the upper-consciousness of a PLAYER. There are a glimpse from a different 'Universe' in which 'flows of essences' is the core of the game. Essences are comparable to Efforts and Emotions: however, they are from entirely different 'worlds': efforts are embedded in the physical Universe, emotions are human sentiments. The perceptions of a flow within a game as a spectator and as a player are DIFFERENT. In consequence, the thrill experienced by a player is often NOT even imaginable by the spectator. ------------------------ EXAMPLES: A Thriller, like in movies and books, consists of a SEQUENCE of thrills and chills with a final CLIMAX which ends the game (an the movie). In ball games, we often see an embedding larger game structure with the possibility of several climaxes for either party (goals or points) and this larger game is than viewed as the 'game itself'. In acquisition games ('Monopoly') the only difference is that there are no time limits like in sports games. ------------------------------------------------------- About Analyzing Games: - A first action typically consists of a survey of actual (currently) existing thrills and chills. - Next, isolate and model/simulate the game scenarios. Substitute links to other games by tokens (placeholders) and model those separately to reduce complexity of the model. - Mark the 3 types of 'E' where they occur in the flow of game events: Effort, Emotion, and Essence. The latter can be only INFERRED because they happen in a super-conscious event space. - Evaluate the type of a game (see below) - Here and now, analyze the conventional wisdom of resource analysis (risk & reward) and determine what the expected outcome would be (win/win. win/lose. lose/win, or lose/lose). - You can now redesign the games compound as needed. ------------------------------ Notes on types of Games: ======================== - an INNOCENT game is a game that is played for the sake of playing a game, like children's game, and, in a sense, the game of life in our Universe. - a FALSE game is that produces another effect than what has been proposed by the game makers - a MALICIOUS or BAD GAME is a trick game to cause the participants to be hurt - a FAKE GAME is one that is offered to occlude a 'real game' which remains hidden - a SPOILED GAME, a pseudo-game where the 'reward' of the game makers is the only objective Note, that a game may have a 'mixed-type' and that it may CHANGE its type over time (which, if intentionally done so, is typical of a malicious or a spoiled game). --------------------------------- Last not least: “Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.” -- Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love

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