Movers & Shakers - Subversive Game Design and Meaningful Conflict
10Movers & Shakers is a two-player tablet serious game created as a research tool to explore how players communicate based on conflicting perspectives within the game. The aim of Movers & Shakers is to create a meaningful conflict between its players and to facilitate a controversy beyond the screens.
Movers & Shakers is used as a research tool to explore how a social component influences experiences in serious games. In addition subversive game design elements are implemented in the game to foster the players' thinking process and to get them out of unquestioned routines. In the game the players are challenged to give up their prior egoistic goals to reach their common goal -- to save the world. In a nutshell, the game shifts from a competitive to a collaborational gameplay -- once the players start communicating.
Download the game for Android Tablets at http://gambit.mit.edu/moversandshakers
Follow our research at http://gamelab.mit.edu/research/subversive
Video by Steven Schirra
Interviews: Konstantin Mitgutsch (Product Owner, Researcher), Akash Thakkar (Audio Designer)
Movers & Shakers was one of 7 games made at the MIT Game Lab during the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Summer 2012 program. These games were made for researchers over the course of 9 weeks by student interns.