In this episode, we talk about social simulation in games, taking as our starting point Mitu Khandaker's talk ‘Thinking about people: Designing games for social simulation’. Hosts Dr. Ibi and Dr. Joe discuss:

What’s a social sim?
Autonomous behaviour versus authored branching stories
Social simulation in tabletop games
What are NPCs for?
The multiple functions of communication and interaction in real life and games
Games such as The Sims, Baldur's Gate 3, Skyrim, Dragon Age, Redshirts, and Ctrl.Alt.DEL

Contains some strong (and other type types of) language.

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📚 Resources:

Jakobson, Roman. 1960. ‘Linguistics and poetics’. In T. Seboek (ed.) Style in Language, MIT Press, 350-377.

Available at: https://www.academia.edu/download/33061075/Jakobson_Eks_15_F12.pdf

Khandaker, Mitu. 2015 ‘Thinking about people: Designing games for social simulation’, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco.

Video available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haNy1kSHMt8&t=2591s

Mathiot, Madeleine & Garvin, Paul L. 1975. ‘The functions of language: A sociocultural view’, Anthropological Quarterly, 48(3). 148–156. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3316921

Searle, John R. 1975. ‘A taxonomy of illocutionary acts.’ In K. Gunderson (ed.) Language, Mind, and Knowledge, University of Minnesota Press, 344–369.

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