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The Healing GameMarch 2nd, 2006 |
Abalieno has a post up at the Cesspit about The “healer” role as a byproduct of the meta-game we played till today. In it, he argues that the traditional healer role that exists in the modern MMORPGs only exists to fill a need in the core combat game system; that it is, in other words, purely mechanical, and present merely as a formal system, not because it captures the spirit of healing in any way.
Which makes me think, rather of a game where healing is the core mechanic.
Picture an MMORPG just like the ones today, but everywhere you see combat, replace it with healing. A six-man encounter would be a surgical operation that required teamwork. Soloing would be a brilliant doctor doing drive-by diagnostics. Raids would be massive experimental treatments.
Rather than spawning mobs, spawn ill people. Instead of weapons, have medicines. Instead of managing aggro, manage fever. Instead of armors, we have disinfectants.
Quests would include tasks to find and gather new plants for pharmaceuticals, and bespoke missions to fix the sanitation in a remote village. Puzzles might involve finding the standing water where the mosquitoes are breeding.
You can level up by building up immunity to the most common diseases. Your abilities are new forms of intervention and diagnosis; some classes might use homeopathic medicine, others might be trained in a Western mode. And death? Well, that would be a case of fighting off the infection youself, and failing.
You could go pretty psychedelic and “virtual” on the visuals, if you chose, with plenty of full-screen particle effects to keep the “fight” interesting. You could even, if you wanted to betray the Hippocratic Oath, have Dr vs Dr combat biowarfare.
How would it play?
Exactly the same.
And yet, there’s something different and appealing about it. Why not make this game? It could be done very conservatively, design-wise.
Edit:
Yes, of course, there’s much richer, cooler, and neater things to do with healing. And yes, I played Trauma Center.
I picked the straight swap with combat precisely because you can analogize all of it very directly — it’s literally the same game — precisely because of the underlying point I wanted to make about how blinkered we tend to be about design. Here’s something we could do by just changing the presentation a little, and that would still be a major paradigm shift. It’s risky only in a marketing sense, not in a technical or design sense.
How big an audience would it have? I have no idea.
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Healing MMORPG?
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[...] Quests would include tasks to find and gather new plants for pharmaceuticals, and bespoke missions to fix the sanitation in a remote village. Puzzles might involve finding the standing water where the mosquitoes are breeding. It goes on from there, every sentence a perfect mind-bomb of fun speculation. Link (via Negatendo) [...]
[...] whm’s unite Picture an MMORPG just like the ones today, but everywhere you see combat, replace it with healing. imo, this sounds like teh gheyness. there’s a goddamn reason why i bailed out of pre-med in college. [...]
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on completely different elements. At the point I’ve described, the UI becomes just superfluous. The “healer” role as a byproduct of the meta-game we played till today, Abalieno, 2 mars 2006 via-1 Ralph Koster via-1 Brett O’Connor aka Negatendo via-1 Boing Boing
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[...] http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/mmorpg/an-mmo-built-around-healing-158258.phpAn MMO Built Around Healing?What if instead of weaving fire and ice through giant dragons, MMO-gamers healed, stitched and saved creatures for phat loot? Boing Boing points to bright mind Raph Kosters thoughts on a game that was just that - a healing adventure. From Koster: Picture an MMORPG just like the ones today, but everywhere you see combat, replace it with healing. A six-man encounter would be a surgical operation that required teamwork. Soloing would be a brilliant doctor doing drive-by diagnostics. Raids would be massive experimental treatments.Rather than spawning mobs, spawn ill people. Instead of weapons, have medicines. Instead of managing aggro, manage fever. Instead of armors, we have disinfectants.Koster goes on to explain how the mechanic is basically the exact same way that MMOs are played now, just the way the game is marketed would have to be changed.http://www.boingboing.net/2006/03/02/what_would_an_mmorpg.htmlhttp://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/02/the-healing-game/ [...]
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[...] So, you’d think that a Healer specific game would appeal to me. Actually, no, it doesn’t. Oh, don’t get me wrong, i like being the guy with the tricorder and hypospray, but i also like whipping out the sawed off shotgun and informing a few folks that they’re being “naughty”. Hey, it’s a beat-em-up, there be ups to beat. It’s just that i don’t have to mash the buttons quite as frequently. [...]
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[IMG Gaming]There’s anarticle by game designer Raph Koster circulating the net at the moment (first springing up on Boing Boing) that talks about Raph’s unique concept of an MMO revolving around the idea of healing and medicine as opposed to combat and raids.
this post from Ralph Koster on medical-based MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games): Picture an MMORPG just like the ones today, but everywhere you see combat, replace it with healing. A six-man encounter would be a surgical operation
[...] Quests would include tasks to find and gather new plants for pharmaceuticals, and bespoke missions to fix the sanitation in a remote village. Puzzles might involve finding the standing water where the mosquitoes are breeding. It goes on from there, every sentence a perfect mind-bomb of fun speculation. Link (via Negatendo) [...]
as soon as daylight breaks and I am not keeping Courtney up with all the light and noise I am making. Saturday’s LINKS are more fun when you’re not hurting BoingBoing linked to an interesting article on the possibility of a healing based MMORPG
[...] Games can be tools for learning how to change the world: in virtual worlds we can design cities, overthrow dictatorships and run refugee camps, but many of the most popular games are still about adventure and combat. But what if we had games whose adventures were based not on violence, but healing? “Picture an MMORPG just like the ones today, but everywhere you see combat, replace it with healing. A six-man encounter would be a surgical operation that required teamwork. Soloing would be a brilliant doctor doing drive-by diagnostics. Raids would be massive experimental treatments. Rather than spawning mobs, spawn ill people. Instead of weapons, have medicines. Instead of managing aggro, manage fever. Instead of armors, we have disinfectants. Quests would include tasks to find and gather new plants for pharmaceuticals, and bespoke missions to fix the sanitation in a remote village. Puzzles might involve finding the standing water where the mosquitoes are breeding.” [...]
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[...] n*cole wondered if there were any alternatives to this theme? I knew of a few pencil-paper role-playing games, but the list was very short, and I couldn’t provide the actual names of the games - they were that obscure to me. Quite coincidentally, I stumbled upon The Healing Game, a short inquiry editorial by Raph Koster, explores alternative themes as the basis of role-playing games. Why not replace the destruction and violence with curing and treating diseases? I find the idea very intriguing. [...]
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chose, with plenty of full-screen particle effects to keep the âfightâ interesting. You could even, if you wanted to betray the Hippocratic Oath, have Dr vs Dr combat biowarfare.” Wonder when the new ‘Mortal Kombat H5N1′ will debut?!! Here’s thelink
[IMG ]Online gezondheidsspel, een proefballon of een idee met mogelijkheden? Monday 06 March 2006 @ 10:20 AM | Bijdrage van: MartijnHulst | Opgevraagd: 5 [IMG ] Raph Koster filosofeert over een massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG) voor de gezondheidszorg: “Picture an MMORPG just like the ones today, but everywhere you see combat, replace it with healing. A six-man encounter would be a surgical operation
[...] Via Gamasutra, an interesting article exploring the value of cooperative play. IMO, the market is sorely in need of more games with serious coop modes. I think everyone would enjoy them. And hey, studies suggest that women particularly appreciate cooperative play; useful thing for a female-starved industry to note. Speaking of coop, check out Raph Koster’s thoughts on a healing-centric MMOG. [...]
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[...] Quests would include tasks to find and gather new plants for pharmaceuticals, and bespoke missions to fix the sanitation in a remote village. Puzzles might involve finding the standing water where the mosquitoes are breeding. It goes on from there, every sentence a perfect mind-bomb of fun speculation. Link (via Negatendo) [...]
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proprio sito, il concept di un gioco basato sulla guarigione invece che sui combattimenti. Come egli stesso ammette, l’idea sarebbe facilmente applicabile a un qualsiasi MMORPG, in cui invece che far fuori i nemici, si aiutano personaggi in difficoltĂ , si coopera
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[...] ozarque (ozarque) wrote,@ 2006-03-10 13:54:00 Linguistics; medical metaphors; gaming; recommended link… Recommended, and especially appropriate in the context of our recent discussion of the Healing Is War/Combat metaphor: “The Healing Game,” at http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/02/the-healing-game .(And thanks to Wikipedia, I now know what MMORPG means.)Note: This item was e-mailed to me, and I’d like to credit and thank the e-mailer here — but I’m not sure I’m free to do that, and I don’t want to violate his privacy. If you send me something off-LJ and you don’t tell me that I’m free to identify you, I’ll honor that and keep your identity to myself; if you want to be credited, therefore, please be sure you let me know.(Read comments)Post a comment in response: From:Anonymous OpenID Identity URL: Log in? LiveJournal user Username:Password:Log in? Subject: [...]
[...] ozarqueRecommended, and especially appropriate in the context of our recent discussion of the Healing Is War/Combat metaphor: “The Healing Game,” at http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/02/the-healing-game .(And thanks to Wikipedia, I now know what MMORPG means.)Note: This item was e-mailed to me, and I’d like to credit and thank the e-mailer here — but I’m not sure I’m free to do that, and I don’t want to violate his privacy. If you send me something off-LJ and you don’t tell me that I’m free to identify you, I’ll honor that and keep your identity to myself; if you want to be credited, therefore, please be sure you let me know. link5 comments|post comment [...]
[...] Link | Leave a comment | Add to MemoriesLinguistics; medical metaphors; gaming; recommended link… Mar. 10th, 2006 | 01:54 pmposted by: ozarqueRecommended, and especially appropriate in the context of our recent discussion of the Healing Is War/Combat metaphor: “The Healing Game,” at http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/02/the-healing-game .(And thanks to Wikipedia, I now know what MMORPG means.)Note: This item was e-mailed to me, and I’d like to credit and thank the e-mailer here — but I’m not sure I’m free to do that, and I don’t want to violate his privacy. If you send me something off-LJ and you don’t tell me that I’m free to identify you, I’ll honor that and keep your identity to myself; if you want to be credited, therefore, please be sure you let me know. [...]
[IMG â] Od heretickĂ© myĆĄlenky ÄlĂĄnku se odpichuje gamesnickĂœ mastermind Raph Koster (kterĂœ smoÄil prsty v tÄlesnĂœch tekutinĂĄch onlinovek Ultima Online i Star Wars Galaxies) na svĂ©m blogu. Navrhuje hru, kterĂĄ by nahradila zabĂjenĂ â lĂ©ÄenĂm. MĂsto teamovĂ©ho pwnovĂĄnĂ bosse â operace sleziny. MĂsto sĂłlovĂĄnĂ potvor â stanovenĂ diagnĂłzy v sanitce. MĂsto spawnovĂĄnĂ mobĆŻ â vyvolĂĄvĂĄnĂ pacientĆŻ z ÄekĂĄrny… Ano, je na Äase vzĂt do rukou dobĆe kalibrovanĂœ perennium
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noch zu wage. Eine Ă€hnliche Idee hat Nintendo bereits in seinem OP-Spiel Trauma Center: Under the Knife umgesetzt, in welchem sich die Spieler als Chirurgen versuchen können und Operationen an virtuellen Patienten durchfĂŒhren mĂŒssen. Quelle:Raphâs Website Nachtrag: Wie konnte ich das vergessen? Die Idee einer OP-Sim ist ja uralt! Schon zu Amiga-Zeiten gab es ein Spiel namens ‘The Surgeon’. Es war sehr schlecht, aber das ist hier nebensĂ€chlich.
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[...] AR based Medical imaging technologies really began to take off in the early 2000s. There are a growing range of holographic, projective, interactive gesture recognition tools available, which can really make training and diagnosis so much easier. The Healing Game Picture an MMORPG just like the ones today, but everywhere you see combat, replace it with healing. A six-man encounter would be a surgical operation that required teamwork. Soloing would be a brilliant doctor doing drive-by diagnostics. Raids would be massive experimental treatments. - Raph Koster’s brilliant ideas for a healing based MMO VR Interfaces: Virtual Reality Welding Trainer [...]
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[...] Q u o t e: I’ve taken a lot of verbal abuse (not that it matters, usually, considering the source) for seeing an OMGDPSROGUE die, after they pulled aggro from the NOOBTANK and the U’RAHEALER. How dare we not keep up with him spamming all his abilities as soon as the mob is within melee range ? OOH THE HUGE-MANATEE ! Haha… Yeah I can’t do my maximum DPS in cat because I know I’ll pull aggro, so I’ll hold back. But that’s just the healer part of my brain beeping at me. I should just bare my teeth and go all-out wild-eyed ass-biting, one eye on the damage meter, then scream in surprise when I die and howl at the healer behind me! Anyway, of course hybrids should heal. But that’s three of my abilities. Three, four if I spec into another. I have taskbars loaded with all these other abilities and spells, and I shouldn’t ever use those? There are all sorts of very interesting ways to make the red bars get smaller–they far outnumber making them grow: dots, bleeds, direct damage, I can’t even count them all. And I’m a primary healer. To make the bars go the other way, 3 abilities. And two won’t stack with others of my class. For me, that means I’m left with one spell I cast, different ranks of the same spell just for variety. It’s so boring, so uninspiring. Perhaps that’s why the class is unpopular? Here are all all these cool abilities. Now we’ll let you use one of them. Blizzard intended this? Healing in WoW just doesn’t have the variety of fun ways to make the bars bigger, whereas making the bars smaller has all sorts of options. It’s the game mechanics of it. Why can’t healing be just as rich and interesting as doing damage? Raph Koster posted a idea on his blog a while back, make a MMOG that was only about healing. Hell I’d settle for more than one spell (a good start would be letting our HoTs stack)! http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/02/the-healing-game/ (But Dakmoor’s right, healers often get blamed for other’s mistakes, in many MMOGs) [...]
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noch zu wage. Eine Ă€hnliche Idee hat Nintendo bereits in seinem OP-Spiel Trauma Center: Under the Knife umgesetzt, in welchem sich die Spieler als Chirurgen versuchen können und Operationen an virtuellen Patienten durchfĂŒhren mĂŒssen. Quelle: Raphâs Website Nachtrag: Wie konnte ich das vergessen? Die Idee einer OP-Sim ist ja uralt! Schon zu Amiga-Zeiten gab es ein Spiel namens ‘The Surgeon’. Es war sehr schlecht, aber das ist hier nebensĂ€chlich.
[...] I just see this as a limitation of game design (and acceptance in the mass market). Raph a while back posted ideas on a similar theme: MMOG as The Healing Game. [...]
[...] Take this, Raph Submitted by Abalieno on March 3, 2006 - 04:59. This is a direct answer to Raph. I was going to just post it in the comments of his page, then it grew slightly beyond the original intention and I got scruples about posting it there. I guess he is probably going to find it even here. It has an heated tone not because I’m against Raph, but because this is a theme I feel strongly. [...]
[...] the healing game [...]
[...] to be hilarious. Anyone who’s played an MMO will get a kick out of it. Another interesting idea is an MMO centered around healing. Heck, the real point of every MMO is to get as much bling, glowy stuff and costume accessories [...]
to change advancement. A good debate about this occurred last year over on Raph’s blog whereby he went through “why levels suck”. But a great rejoinder by HRose to a post Raph made about a medical MMO illustrates the problem really well. Raph proposed a game where you had to “heal” patients; HRose argued it was the same old, same old. There was a difference in interpretation, but HRose was correct in that whether it was healing or killing dumb AI models, the game design seemed the same of consuming your way through the content. In Raph’s
[...] are breeding. It goes on from there, every sentence a perfect mind-bomb of fun speculation. Link (via [...]
[...] not hear about this before? Very cool. And you’re right, I find it reminiscent of stuff like The Healing Game I proposed. albeit with more of a Serious Games [...]
[...] not hear about this before? Very cool. And you’re right, I find it reminiscent of stuff like The Healing Game I proposed. albeit with more of a Serious Games [...]
[...] triptych on Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:21 pm http://www.raphkoster.com/2006/03/02/the-healing-game/While I did think about the idea for this game on my own a while back, I searched the web for others [...]
world like this, but as someone who is both a DIY homeowner and a lover of constuction, the game you propose would be fabulous. Thanks for your time, Fred I can assure you that I have no intention of rushing off to make this game, anymore than I didwhen I tossed out the Healing MMOas an idea. Sorry! Besides, the real point is to make Tycho do it, not me. [IMG :)] Now, this one, I thought was really fascinating: Hey Raph, this is Jeffrey, one of the two designers who did the Three Ring
[...] Check it out! While looking through the blogosphere we stumbled on an interesting post today.Here’s a quick excerpt [...]
[...] healers I know, though, are the kind of folks who don’t look for any of that kind of attention. The art of healing in most Massively Multiplayer games puts you at the back of the party. There, you can shine without [...]
[...] I know, though, are the kind of folks who don’t look for any of that kind of attention. The art of healing in most Massively Multiplayer games puts you at the back of the party. There, you can shine without [...]