MMORPGs: Player-to-Player Interaction

Abstract

The majority of games, activities, and stories developed for Disney sites in the first few years of online development were for the single player. Early on however, the first steps in the type of community building that had been created in the early days of Disney by the Mickey Mouse Clubs had already appeared on the horizon. One of the simplest community building ideas in gaming is sharing high scores among the players, a feature of arcade style games. In its original line-up, Disney’s Daily Blast included a bowling game that was designed so scores could be posted and children could compare their performance with others. The top scores were updated daily on one of the ESPN pages. Many other Disney online games kept the daily top 100 scores and the all-time top 10 scores. If a player scored high enough to be listed in the all-time top 10 or daily top100 list, the player would be allowed to enter his or her nickname in the hall of fame.

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