1. The Official Guide to Game Development

2. Chapter 8 Social Games: “you’ve got to have friends”

3. Key Chapter Questions ■ What elements make a game a social game?
■ Can a single-player game be social?
■ How do social media games connect to each another?
■ How does GameSalad Creator add social components to a game?
■ What game genres make viable social games?

4. Meet Me at the Gaming Tables
Image courtesy of Kimberly Unger.
Games are inherently social constructs, with most forms of traditional games requiring two or more people to play. When games moved into the virtual, players increasingly pitted their wits against the computer as opposed to human opponents— but the desire to play against other human minds eventually made its way back in.

5. Meet Me at the Gaming Tables
Source Google.
Zynga Poker

6. Asynchronous Gameplay
Social Design
Asynchronous Gameplay
Source Games Press.
Scrabble

7. Social Design Community Word Carnivale
Image courtesy of PlayScreen, LLC.
Image courtesy of PlayScreen, LLC.
Word Carnivale

8. Social Design
Endless Play
Source Apple Inc.
DragonVale

9. Social Design Virtual Currency Too Fat to Fly
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Too Fat to Fly

10. Social Design Reciprocity FarmVille 2
Source Zynga. Image courtesy of Kimberly Unger.
FarmVille 2

11. Social Design Drop In/Drop Out Bubble Safari
Source Zynga. Image courtesy of Kimberly Unger.
Bubble Safari

12. Battle Legend Infinity
Social Design
Buyouts
Image courtesy of GameSalad®.
Battle Legend Infinity

13. Ice Cap Games: Black Jack
Social Design
Advertising
Image courtesy of GameSalad®.
Image courtesy of GameSalad®.
Shred Neffland
Ice Cap Games: Black Jack

14. Summary
■ Meet Me at the Gaming Tables
■ Social Design
■ Hive Mind