occult game design: an initiation into secrets and...
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Occult Game Design: An Initiation into
Secrets and Mysteries
Jeff Howard Professor of Game Development and Design
Dakota State University
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Assistant Professor of Game Development and Design, DSU
Game Magic forthcoming Winter 2013,
Taylor and Francis/CRC
Arcana: A Ceremonial
Magick Simulator forthcoming
Published 2008
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• Mystery = an overarching effect of something hidden but decipherable about a game world
• Secrets = individual hidden elements
• Initiation = the gradual revelation of mystery, achieved by players through the attainment of skill and understanding
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Secrets can contribute to cult following
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But not all secrets are created equal (Ovaltine . . .)
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Lists of best Easter eggs
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No, they’re not.
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Cute
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Fourth wall breaking
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Meta
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The Cursed Pokemon cartridge
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Haunted Majora’s Mask
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The ultimate Easter Egg
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• Seemingly arbitrary action
• Apparently gratuitous reward
• Outwardly random mechanism for delivery
Not arbitrary, gratuitous, or random
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By performing some strange set of actions
in the right time
at the right place,
an absolutely unique play experience
will be unveiled.
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Actually unlocks a secret world
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Unlocking a secret world beyond the world
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Occult = magic, mystical, esoteric
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Occult = secret, hidden
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Atari 2600 Adventure
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Key unlocks door, reveals message
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Mystery and initiation
from mystes "one who has been initiated"
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myein "to close, shut" the lips or the eyes
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Initiation
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Players discover secrets
by putting the game into an unusual state,
controlled by variables of the game
(time, space, player action, player status),
resulting in an illuminating narrative payoff.
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Cryptic mechanics resonate with narrative themes
1. Hidden gameplay systems and subsystems
2. Obscure goals/quests
3. Puzzling control schemes
4. Obscured range of actions
Hidden locations (space)
Hidden events (time)
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Obscure mechanics: player actions with uncertain
effect on variables with uncertain effect on narrative
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Mysterious lore resonates with obscure mechanics
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Hidden gameplay sub-systems (e.g. a secret school of magic)
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Recursive unlocking (gameplay and narrative)
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Cryptic Objectives
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Puzzling control schemes to reach objectives
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Uncertain range of actions
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The Pendant
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The Pendant
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Hidden locations
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The most difficult
RPG of all time
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Hidden events (time and place triggered)
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An overarching effect: mystery
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Red Room and Judy
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Cult Classics
Surreal, strange, disorienting
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Surreal ≠ Random
This is not the same thing
as being random
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Puzzles pervasive and organic
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Puzzles are often symbolic and
Players gain understanding of world.
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Initiation entails cumulative understanding
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Deadly Premonition: secret dog(s)
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Sometimes, apparent attraction to horror is a desire for initiation
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Tarot = simple surface, mystical interpretations
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Howard’s Law
For secret significance:
power ∝ innocence × simplicity
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Nanashi No Game (The Nameless Game)
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Communities that form naturally, driven by interpretation
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Initiatory self-discipline: don’t spoil for yourself
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Communicate without spoiling
for others
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Let’s create secret knowledge fantasies,
not power fantasies
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The two meanings of occult merge (hidden and magical)
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Initiates protect and communicate the mysteries