This document discusses VR game design and how to create fun experiences. It introduces the concept of the "4 Keys to Fun" - easy, hard, people, and serious fun - and how VR can trigger stronger emotions than other media due to its immersive nature. Game designers are encouraged to allow different types of play to increase engagement and avoid focusing only on novelty or frustration. Serious games are highlighted that use VR for purposes like conservation.

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Empathy
Environment
VR
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Nicole Lazzaro VR Developer
Expert on VR Emotion and Engagement
Making VR Fun
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• Game Developer
• Programmer
• Filmmaker
• Emotion
• Stanford Psychology
• 1st iPhone Game

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VR Serious
Games
“New findings from
Stanford researchers show
that people who were
immersed in a three-
dimensional virtual forest
and told to saw through a
towering sequoia until it
crashed in front of them
later used less paper in
the real world than people
who only imagined what
it's like to cut down a tree.”
“[It will] make them feel more personally accountable or
responsible for the damage that occurred."

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Serious Games
Experience
Tilt World an award
winning game on
iOS plants trees
with a real time
Impact Map.
Players have
planted 16,000
trees on
Madagascar.
iOS App Store: http://bitly.com/TiltWorld
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCWmy0T73d4

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13. Follow the White Rabbit

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WTF?Where’s the Fun?
Hint Presence is Not the Same as Fun

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The 4 Keys
Each emotion has a function
• Curiosity > explore
• Frustration > goal
• Amusement > social bond
• Satisfaction > value
Ways we trigger these
emotions are different in
VR

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The 4 Keys to Fun
Easy Fun Micro
Loop
Hard Fun Main Loop
People Fun Social
Engagement Loop
Serious Fun Meta
Loop
The 4 Keys to Fun Increases Engagement
Use the 4 Keys to Fun: Best selling games allow players to move between different kinds of play.

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4 Keys
Escape The Micro Loop of Gameplay
VR Goal
Frustration
Core Loop
VR Collection
Desire
Meta Loop
4 Keys to Fun
Beyond novelty offer more kinds of VR fun

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VR is HOT
VR Emotions
• Deeper
• Stronger
• More Personal
VR Creates Strong Emotions
The Player is the protagonist
VR
Books
Movies
Games
More realistic than any communication medium we’ve ever invented

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4 Crayons
VR
VR Design is More Architecture than Film

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*WTF
?Where’s the Fun?
Follow the
White
Rabbit