The Restaurant Game Project

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Your Chance To Be A Video Game Designer

— May 3, 2007 — Pop Culture
Attention gamers everywhere! Interested in helping MIT Media Lab test their multi-player research game "The Restaurant"? It's available online to test out. The goal of the game is to take as many online "real multi-player" algorithms as possible and turn them into a single player game that isn't limited in it's game play to programmer decisions, but rather, human decision-making processes. Once they've gathered enough data, they will implement it in a game they plan to release at the 2008 Independant Games Festival. If you are interested in testing it out, go to The Restaurant Game and give it a try. A nice bonus is that your name will be added to the game's credits as a designer when it's released in 2008.

Trend Themes

  1. Multi-player Research Games — Developing multi-player research games using real algorithms for human decision-making processes.
  2. Video Game Design Testing — Using online and community testing platforms to gamify the design and data gathering process for video games.
  3. Human Decision-making Processes — Exploring the potential of human decision-making processes for video game design innovation.

Industry Implications

  1. Gaming — Utilizing multi-player research games and community testing platforms to create innovative video game designs.
  2. Tech Research and Development — Developing and exploring technologies that utilize human decision-making processes for gamification and beyond.
  3. Education and Neuroscience — Investigating how multi-player research games and gamification can be utilized for education and neuroscience research.
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