This year the Game Developer’s Conference at San Francisco had a very interesting session. Three top designers were asked to design a game that uses the same “game mechanics” as organized religions.
While looking at this video, I had a moment. I have been thinking about this for as long as I can remember: how does religions propagate, what do they offer and why do they succeed? I never thought of all these as game mechanics. Come to think of it, religions use excellent game mechanics.
Here is the video, enjoy. Thanks to the the excellent folks at Gamespot.
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