A Dialogue on Depth

A discussion led byChris Hecker & Paul Sottosanti

What is depth?

I don’t know.

But, maybe we can start to feel out the boundaries of the

question...

I care a lot about depth!

I’m trying to make SpyParty…

“a deep player-skill competitive multiplayer

game about human behavior”

Blizzard’s “Depth-first, Accessibility-

later” Design Methodology

“Action Test”

hardcomplicatedmeaningfulemergentwide

deep vs.

mentalphysical

single-player vs. multi-player

player-skill vs. avatar-skillWorth thinking about: Go, Poker, C-S, Sims, SMB, Shiren, DF, Braid, DVG,

Thief, LBP

Topics!