Interactivity - ROP Ch 6

ROP Chapter 6: Interactivity

Interactivity is linked to concepts of design, system and meaningful play

Four modes of interactivity:

1-    1- Cognitive interactivity,  interpretive participation

2-    2- Functional interactivity, utilitarian participation

3-    3- Explicit interactivity, participation with designed choices and procedures

4-    4- Beyond the object interactivity or cultural participation

These have overlapping parts and occur simultaneously in any design system

Choices: interactive content offers choices, and these can be 

- micro-choices: moment-to-moment choices a player is confronted with 

- macro-choices: the way micro-choices join together like a chain to form a larger trajectory of experience

Meaning in a game (meaning by player interaction) emerges by action > outcome unit (the molecule out of which larger interactive structures are built).

To analyze action > outcome unit, five stages help construct a choice in a game:

1-   1- What happened before the player was given choice?

2-   2- How is the possibility of choice conveyed to the player?

3-   3- How did the player make the choice?

4-   4- What is the result of a choice? How will it affect future choices?

5-   5- How is the result of the choice conveyed to the player

Internal event: in which the systems of the game processes and receives the choice

External event: in which the choice is represented to the player

Space of possibility: the space of all possible actions and meanings that can emerge in the course of the game.