Developing Emergent Play in Collaborative Online Experiences

Part 2: Entertainment for Purpose and PersuasionInternational audienceThis paper will discuss common features of emergent play in the context of developing an online collaborative practice-based research project, assimilate. Emergent play features, such as development of fictional worlds will be identified, followed by a discussion of player experience of emergent play. The paper proposes an system framework that invites narrative emergent play facilitated by a set of clearly defined and simplified affordances that provide recognisable metaphors for collaboration