SMALL W RLDS
GDC 2003 – Make Better Games
Human nature =
anthropology
•Jared Diamond in Guns,
Germs, and Steel breaks down social complexity into tiers based on population size.
Bands
No fixed home
"Egalitarian" leadership
No real bureaucracy
No laws
Unstratified culture
Tribes
A single home
"Egalitarian" or "big-man"
Organized resource extraction
Still unstratified
Chiefdoms
Many homes
Castes and
classes
Cronyism & monarchs
Bureaucracy & laws
Taxes, indentured labor, and slavery
Public architecture
Luxuries for elites
Dozens
Hundreds
Thousands