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Ten Thousand Hours Collaborating

1. Describe the general collaborative practices of Settlers' gamers that show shared intentionality. Make sure you use some of the key terms mentioned in this week's reading.

In the game Settlers, collaboration is used within guilds, and other friends.  The collaboration is built on trusting your guild to help you get the resources you need to complete the quests or just to continue on for the day.  Being part of the guild also means you have to participate by helping others out as well.  The guild also builds a common ground where we all have the same goals and rules.  The members of the game also share concentration and synchronized engagement by helping others and making sure their members are completing the quests.  Members focus on what their members may need and how to help them continue to build on their settlement.  Respect and fostered mutual regard are shown in the game by the relationships that are built in the guild and game.  Players respect your ideas and requests.  With the concentration and respect, a commitment to the game is required.  Players are asked to be committed to the game and complete the tasks as well as helping guild members.  Even though you may not see a real life reward for your efforts in the game, you are rewarded for your hard work and dedication in the game and by guild members. McGonigal (2011) states that as the game industry continues to emphasis co-op, collective intelligence and collaborative production modes of play, collaboration superpowers will spread more widely throughout gamer culture.  And as more and more people start to think of themselves as gamers-perhaps in no small part because they want to develop their own collaboration superpowers-these extraordinary new skills and abilities will become ordinary- the norm rather than the exception. (p.294)

2. Discuss ways you personally have found success by collaborating with others in the game. You can weave this into your description or make it a new paragraph.

I have found success in collaborating with my guild members and friends that I have met in the game.  I find it easier to understand what to do and to get the resources needed.  I feel knowing that you have others to turn to when you’re not sure what to do or the best way to accomplish it makes it easier to complete quests and get things.  With the guild, even though one person may not be able to help you there are others with in the guild that is capable and willing.  It makes the game more entertaining and bearable when you have others to talk to and help.