Social environments evolve from online games. Communities form between single players and the online service. Communities also form out of the interaction between the multiplayers and the online service. When communities form, it functions as an open system fueled by semantics. Sharing knowledge, solving problems, working as a team, playing, building, quarrelling, cooperating, planning and forming relationships are some of the elements of gameplay. Web based games provides the arena for social complexity for the casual, traditional and multiplayer gamer.

 

Cindy Ahuna is currently an MA graduate student in the School of Art of Design.