This page describes those features intended to extend the Outbreak game and create community.

Ideas for this page might include:

• Web 2.0 integration
• Player creation of virus and pandemic scenarios
• Online discussion forums
• Using real news reports and feeds
• Google earth Mashups
• Community forums and webpages with RSS news feeds
• Multiplayer gaming ideas where players have their own cities and must trade, barter and defend against viruses
• Comparing game concept to existing communities
• Sharing of in-game tips
• Building in a Micro-transaction model where players buy more content to create a happier ending
  
• Providing hooks for in-game advertising and advermini-games
  

Free thought
this section of the paper was inspired out of the concern about what the game would be like if a pandemic were occurring. As designers we must think about how people will will react to the gain if a pandemic is currently happening within the world. Part of our challenge then, is to design a game that will meet the needs of people when they are hurting, isolated, and a afraid. Ultimately what we design for an educational purpose, might truly have the therapeutic purpose. What we may think is purely fun, may become a life line. The assets, it is incumbent upon us to think about how our design will support people in that event.

Important features during a pandemic:
COMMUNITY

• the ability to connect with other people
• discuss the virus
• fun games to play while you are in quarantine
• the ability to see updated data, real-world data
• the ability to share stories about the game and how it impacted you
• an online wall to remember people who died
• the ability to defeat the virus by working together
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What is community?

There are three important features of community. A community is a place where users return to over time.

here are activities that happened in community:

• providing feedback
• lending a volunteer hand
• contributing to discussions and activity

Quotes from the reading
"The Internet, however, has produced dislocations of time and space in the process of offering new means of communicating." (9)