1. Prom Week
Intro shot a screenshot

2. Goal: Have Zack Date Someone Popular

3. The Social Landscape
Note that Monica is already popular and Zack has a crush on her.
Zack has no romance for his friend, Simon, or the bully, Buzz.

4. 2 Possible Strategies Make Popular Get New Girlfriend
Either (1) make your current girlfriend cool/popular or (2) get a new girlfriend who is already popular.

5. Make Cassie Popular
You can make Cassie popular by making her have a lot of friends

6. Obstacles
Apparently, Buzz doesn’t want to be friends with her. Perhaps because she isn’t cool enough.

7. Overcoming Obstacles
Cassie attempts to become the “enemy of Buzz’s enemy” and thus his “friend” by being mean to Simon (her boyfriend Zack’s friend! What a jerk!)

8. Overcoming Obstacles That was really mean!!!
Cassie attempts to become the enemy of Buzz’s enemy and thus his “friend” by being mean to Simon (her boyfriend Zack’s friend! What a jerk!)

9. Overcoming Obstacles
Now that Cassie has done something mean to Buzz’s enemy he is more interested to talk to her.

10. Date Monica

11. Obstacles
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12. Overcoming Obstacles
Show some state or a social game that shows what happens when Zack dates Monica. (Break up with Cassie or have Zack cheat on her)

13. Overcoming Obstacles
Zack flirts with monica.

14. Overcoming Obstacles
Zack goes over to butter up his girlfriend

15. Overcoming Obstacles
But she’s not happy about how Zack just flirted with Monica

16. Overcoming Obstacles Talk
And they break up, which now opens up the possibility the Monica and Zack might want to start dating

17. Now Monica Want to Ask Zack Out!

18. Social Physics Enables Emergent Solutions
The enemy of your enemy is your friend.
Exploit statuses and traits.
Loneliness, anger, jealousy, etc.
Share common interests.
Shape social history to your advantage.
Create grudges
Get allies
All your friends count!
Who knows what else!!!