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Ethical Free-to-Play Game Design (And Why it Matters)
Very few traditional game developers have experience designing and controlling gameplay/gamer psychology when the game becomes exposed to the forces of speculators, investors and arbitrageurs who have their own out-of-game incentives that move around the game’s token and NFT prices.
Eva Wu • The Financialization of Fun: Crypto Gaming Thesis
games are highly accessible experiences that gradually monetize over time.
Joost van Dreunen • One Up: Creativity, Competition, and the Global Business of Video Games
"Game design can be thought of as the structuring of incentives.... Money (virtual or not) is a very blunt instrument, because it incents strongly but mostly as an extrinsic reward. Ideally, you find a way for the monetary rewards to tie into intrinsic motivators."
Richard Kim • Reflections on "Community"
Games were “designed to reward the kinds of decisions that the game designer thinks are proper,” instilling opaque values and beliefs into players—a critique later leveled at SimCity.69 The model was a “black box,” and even if it was good model, one could not “fathom its complexities by this type of external teasing.”
Chaim Gingold • Building SimCity: How to Put the World in a Machine (Game Histories)
