Comments on: Developing a community game

By: sturgey (andrea sturgess)

sturgey (andrea sturgess) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:34:45 +0000

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@davebriggs nice one. We love a good game at Blackburn with darwen.

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By: davebriggs (Dave Briggs)

davebriggs (Dave Briggs) — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 11:05:45 +0000

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Job for this week: putting this together at last: [link to post]

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By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:59:09 +0000

Thanks to all for your suggestions, I will definitely incorporate them into the cards, the ‘rules’ or the narrative of the game. More soon!

By: MJ Ray

MJ Ray — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:15:13 +0000

So far, so good! I’m pretty impressed by the above and will probably point a few people at it. Look forward to the report on how it plays.

By: David Wilcox

David Wilcox — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:15:28 +0000

Hi Dave – looks like a great evolution! I do think the roles issue is crucial, so excellent to put on cards.
On cards, drawing on socialbysocial, how about network mapping, digital health checks, dashboard?
Aside from the cards, how will you go about the sequence? For the socialbysocial game we’ve been giving groups sets of participation and technology cards with budget points, and then funding cards which they have to use to match costs. Skills and roles would then follow.
Further thought: ask groups to explicity consider a stance: how far they will co-design and evolve with community members, how centralised/distributed?
Looking forward to reports! I’ll let everyone know how SocialbySocial plays tomorrow at Reboot.

By: Steve Dale

Steve Dale — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:01:11 +0000

Dave,

sounds intriguing. Would like to see the game in action. A few points for you to consider:

Technology:
1. You should probably include a ‘People Finder’ facility that helps members find and connect with relevant peers and experts.

2. Maybe include a facility for members to invite friends or colleagues to join the community.

3. A ’shoutbox’ feature for general comments or requests for help.

Roles:
I think you may need to explains somewhere in the game that 1 role does not equal 1 person, i.e. a person can undertake multiple roles (and in my experience this is more likely to be the case). I think it would give the wrong impression to assume that a successful community needs lots of people undertaking lots of roles.

Activities:
Some other potential activities could be:
1. Create a ‘Community Charter’
2. Agree codes of conduct for the community (or maybe this is what you meant by having guidelines and policies)
3. Housekeeping (organise content – remove/archive unwanted content)
4. Issue a regular newsletter
5. Close the community (either because it has achieved its objectives, or because it has not generated any interest.

Will be interested to see how the game develops.

Steve

By: SubtleBlade

SubtleBlade — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:52:45 +0000

A few thoughts:

Technology:

might want to think about adding an aggregation service a la FriendFeed?

Activities:

something to help the Tech Steward? ‘Adding/Tailoring tech to better match community needs’?

Looks great, would love to play it through

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:48:35 +0000

Thanks Phil. I’m standing on the shoulders of giants, really.

I’ll be making all the materials freely downloadable once it is done, so you’ll be able to run it too!

By: Phil Bradley

Phil Bradley — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 17:38:23 +0000

This is a genius idea!