https://www.colleenmacklin.com/dearreader daily 0.75 2020-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1589912643943-DZFE8R1A3HU7EJCY4400/image-asset.jpeg Dear Reader - Dear Reader Trailer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1589912643943-DZFE8R1A3HU7EJCY4400/image-asset.jpeg Dear Reader - Dear Reader Trailer https://www.colleenmacklin.com/work daily 1.0 2025-02-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592252990535-SH9B7THBNNS0TS010VBA/Eric-Colleen-John_LocalNo12%402x.png Work - By Local No. 12 I made The Metagame with John Sharp and Eric Zimmerman, as part of our design collective, Local No. 12. Local No. 12 makes games that play with culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592253274078-HCPXSVVN6XVIV3HN6PR8/SEVEN_RULES_CARDS.png Work - Seven ways to play. The Metagame has seven different games to play. In the same way that a traditional deck of playing cards lets you play anything from solitaire to poker, The Metagame is like a game operating system with new games invented all the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592256730869-SRRVJ7AXL25OM2WMDWH6/2011-12-13-09.47.40.jpg Work - Origin story: The Metagame began as a collectible card game about videogame aesthetics for the 2011 Game Developer’s Conference. During the conference, we received so many requests for a full set that we quickly launched a Kickstarter campaign. That first videogame-only edition - and an expansion pack - quickly sold out. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592252518052-BHX2414WPGP6E2185BEX/img0.jpg Work - A party game where you talk about many things. The Metagame is a social card game about culture that encourages players to share their wildest and most intelligent ideas about everything made by humans – from Hungry Hungry Hippos to the Big Mac, Dirty Dancing to The Electric Slide. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592256689951-EPTYQOAIST5AZCGYZB08/metagame.png Work As a follow up in 2012, Local No. 12 worked with art magazine Esopus to create a "culture edition" that expanded The Metagame into art, design, media, and culture outside of games. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592256408455-0E78K7QN22OPYJSBQU2P/massivelymultiplayer.jpg Work - Awards and Recognition The Seriously Good Game Award, Shut Up and Sit Down The Bernie DeKoven Major Fun Award Official Selection, IndieCade Official Selection, XOXO Official Selection, Boston Festival of Independent Games https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593832879389-L1AMJ6R053JGH9M0FO1G/LocalNo12Team.png Work - The Team This game started with just a few of us back in 2014 (me + Peter Berry, John Sharp, Eric Zimmerman), and has now, in 2020, expanded to a team of many: PETER BERRY / Lead Programming EDDIE CAMERON / Programming ANNA GARBIER / Lead QA & Testing DIEGO GARCIA / Visual & Animation Design MEHAK KHAN / Lead Literary Curation ALEXANDER KING / Game & Economy Design COLLEEN MACKLIN / Experience, Game & Level Design TONI PIZZA / Literary Curation & Level Design KARINA POPP / Literary Curation & Level Design JOHN SHARP / Art Direction MICHAEL SWEET / Music & Audio Design ERIC ZIMMERMAN / Lead Game Design & Project Management https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592318867360-7J3TEBIQK8KTTMJ84XLE/Dear_Reader_MacOS_02.png Work - Play with the classics Dear Reader uses public domain literature as the basis for its puzzles, so for me, one of the most exciting aspects of the design of the game is selecting the literature that players will be able to collect, and also choosing passages from each book to feature. I worked with 4 members of the team to choose and “chapterize” each book. (Team credits below) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592421973461-X8TNOFIFOXWS9IY4P1LK/cards_small.png Work - It’s a card game… Trending Topics is a limited edition 1000-card game. By limited, I mean that there’s one copy. If you want one, let me know - maybe I’ll make more! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592421536452-KC1JRAI2TPI5MG7XMUX5/Trending_Logo_Animation_large2.gif Work - Robots? I created Trending Topics on a long weekend with friends. It was ridiculous and fun! But we ran out of topics! So I trained a GPT-2 algorithm to help me come up with thousands more. I do a lot of yes…and-ing, curating, and playtesting with these topics, because it comes up with some really weird stuff. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1610741140467-31BW8HDTABAF356VC7W7/Shrimp.jpg Work - …and an online game You can find a simple version of Trending Topics online, for free, designed for maximum enjoyment on mobile phones. It’s available at trendingtopics.fun. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593833829862-6YADR6LCFBD3FA0WR2UM/REACTIVISM_2_580.jpg Work - Using the tools at hand. The technology behind Re:Activism is pedestrian (literally!): a mobile phone with a camera and the ability to text message, posterboard, markers, and pamphlets. There’s no special software or GPS needed to play the game. Instead, it uses provisional tools commonly available around the world. Re:Activism is a PETLab project. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592319037475-8S7GTE1W6XW2WLAHVUVJ/ReActivism_Philly.jpeg Work - Played wherever there’s activism. So far, Re:Activism has been played in New York City (2008-2012), Beijing (2008), Minneapolis/St. Paul (2009), Philadelphia, PA (2011) and Atlanta, GA (2013). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592429093551-JVRUB3WK6C944DSMLTL5/Screen+Shot+2020-06-17+at+5.23.36+PM.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592429094840-0SZTBX1D5IM4U2O72W1X/Screen+Shot+2020-06-17+at+5.23.05+PM.png Work - interviews on failure A video series of interviews about failure, and how to deal with it, with creative practitioners from a wide variety of fields, from skateboarders to chefs. John Sharp and I created this webseries as we were researching our book, Iterate: Ten Lessons in Design & Failure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593812627470-HTNB5370WQLE258JKRGU/budgetball1.png Work - College Students vs. Congress Budgetball was designed to generate awareness about the federal among college students. The design team decided to create an intercollegiate sport, culminating in a final tournament between college teams and Congressional Budget Officers and White House Staff. It was played between 2009 and 2010 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. . Both years, college students defeated Congressional and White House teams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593838576551-79C5NBP8LAXWFC3HE8TI/budgetball2.png Work - Design Context How do you make a game about the federal debt enticing to college students? We knew from the start we needed the game to look fun to recruit players. In the beginning of the process we created over 10 prototypes ranging from tabletop simulation to online multiplayer videogames. But after our first playtest, we quickly realized that a fun and goofy sport had the ability to not only draw in new players, it created spectatorship and buzz - a perfect way to garner attention from our core audience and the media. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593838458099-FW8MLZGNRMZBSKQIR80F/Budgetball_Schematic.gif Work - Inclusive and fun. We also wanted it to be accessible to athletes and non-athletes. In order to encourage safe play among a variety of athletic skills, we modeled the gameplay on Ultimate Frisbee: there’s no running with the ball, rather players catch it, freeze, and pass it to another player. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593813028987-HIHJ4425DEZA6E4VU9D0/budgetball3.png Work - A Physical and Fiscal Game The gameplay mixes fast-paced movement on the field, as teams attempt to get their ball into the end zone. In between the intense 8-minute quarters on the field, the gameplay shifts to fiscal strategy, as teams get 3-minutes to choose to spend Budget Bucks on Powerups that give teams advantages, like “Gain another Defensive Player” or to earn Budget Bucks back by choosing from a variety of Sacrifices which make it harder to score, such as “Wear Oven Mitts.” Between quarters, interest accrues. The team with the most points scored - and a (fairly) balanced budget - wins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593834146155-47Y14EHXGHQ84BTF2RPI/Microculture_Poster.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593834418996-UEQOXWEF98EFWSK5JIH9/IMG_2233.JPG Work - Join a flora… The game unfolds as a massively-multiplayer-collectable-card-icebreaker game: Participants are recruited by other players into a Microculture team – such as the skin flora, or gut flora, and are given the task of recruiting other players into their Microculture by following prompts on the cards (see below). When the time is up, the biggest Microculture team wins. Download the game (PDF)! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593834122559-CVC2ETCZ982ICV829C3B/Microculture.001.png Work - Played where there are many microbiomes. 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As game designers, John Sharp and I have grappled with plenty of crises of creativity, false starts, and bad outcomes. Our tool for coping with the many varieties of failure: iteration, the cyclical process of conceptualizing, prototyping, testing, and evaluating. We have found that failure—often hidden, covered up, a source of embarrassment—is the secret ingredient of iterative creative process. In Iterate, we explain how to fail better. But don’t just listen to us! In this book we talk to ten different creative practitioners and teams: from a chef to a comedian, a toy designer to a skateboarder, all to find out how they’ve dealt with failure in their work. With Iterate, we hope to offer useful lessons for anyone interested in the creative process. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593456006366-QJ3Q07XCAMPZBTVKEALP/GDP_cover.png Writing - Games, Design and Play: a detailed approach to iterative game design (2016, O’Reilly) This book offers a play-focused, process-oriented approach for designing games. Drawing on a combined 35 years of design and teaching experience, John Sharp and I link the concepts and elements of play to the practical tasks of game design. Using full-color examples, we reveal how game designers think and work, and illuminate the amazing expressive potential of games. Focusing on practical details, this book guides you from idea to prototype to playtest and fully realized design. You’ll walk through creating a game’s inner workings, including its core actions, themes, and especially its play experience. fun fact: This had the working title: “The Social Justice Warrior’s Guide to Game Design” in mind when writing this book. I hope it lives up to this promise! https://www.colleenmacklin.com/talks daily 0.75 2022-04-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1593828971830-OQPSGFX6SL8KPEEV7QOE/Playtime_Interview Talks An interview for Playtime / The Peabody Essex Museum about games and social change (clickthrough to video on the Playtime website) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/16fe5fdd-b411-4068-9616-c633a053b035/image-asset.png Talks - Make it stand out A talk about the weird systems, speculative worlds and alternate agencies in games that speak to the end of the world and the beginning of something else... Part of the Fair Game(s) series at Clark University, 2022 (clickthrough to video) https://www.colleenmacklin.com/about daily 0.75 2020-11-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec41ad7105dea4f18d7b757/1592432398251-49UOQTD0OTSAS85C8S5V/ColleenMacklin_300.jpg About Photo by Diane Levine https://www.colleenmacklin.com/contact daily 0.75 2020-07-02 https://www.colleenmacklin.com/vitae daily 0.75 2020-11-13