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<LI><em>From</em>: "Schubert, Damion" <<A HREF="mailto:dschubert#origin,ea.com">dschubert#origin,ea.com</A>></LI>
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From: Raph Koster [<A HREF="mailto:rkoster#austin,rr.com">mailto:rkoster#austin,rr.com</A>]
>Damion Schubert once said to me, "I want a newbie to see the coolest thing
>the game has to offer in the first session. Imagine if they saw a dragon
and
>helped kill it on the first day." (Very rough paraphrase here). He's dead
>right. That first play session, before they make that decision to
>emotionally invest in the game, needs to be awesome.
Nutshell version:
(a) If a player makes a friend the first day, he will log in the second
day. If a player logs in the second day and his friend is there, he is
very likely to stick around.
(b) _Witnessing_ the death of a dragon has got to be more impressive
than _killing_ giant rats with a newbie sword. Even if you're just
the drummer boy.
(c) Tutorials suck. They aren't effective. Most people want to skip
them. They are usually easy to break. They are condenscending. A
real person is a better teacher than a tutorial (most of the time).
QED: Pairing up a newbie with a high level character is a good thing.
The trick is to make the high level character want to have the newbie
around.
--Damion
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00470" HREF="msg00470.html">[MUD-Dev] Fun and Learning in games</A></strong>,
Draymoor <a href="mailto:fibhufky@erols.com">fibhufky@erols.com</a>, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 18:55 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00479" HREF="msg00479.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Fun and Learning in games</A></strong>,
Schubert, Damion <a href="mailto:dschubert@origin.ea.com">dschubert@origin.ea.com</a>, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 23:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00452" HREF="msg00452.html">[MUD-Dev] Game Law Example (fwd)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00460" HREF="msg00460.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Game Law Example (fwd)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00439" HREF="msg00439.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking</A></strong>,
Schubert, Damion <a href="mailto:dschubert@origin.ea.com">dschubert@origin.ea.com</a>, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 00:02 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00440" HREF="msg00440.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking</A></strong>,
adam <a href="mailto:adam@treyarch.com">adam@treyarch.com</a>, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 00:36 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00442" HREF="msg00442.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking</A></strong>,
Christopher Allen <a href="mailto:ChristopherA@Skotos.net">ChristopherA@Skotos.net</a>, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 01:07 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00445" HREF="msg00445.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Justifying twinking</A></strong>,
adam <a href="mailto:adam@treyarch.com">adam@treyarch.com</a>, Wed 19 Apr 2000, 01:30 GMT
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