Guiding players to become makers
Summary
As a Product Designer at Mutate, I helped guide people to get started playing and creating games.
Background
Mutate was a social game-making platform where people could play, create, and remix games together. We faced a challenge getting early users onboard and discover the aha movement of seamlessly going from playing to creating games together.
Invite system – building an early user base
First things first, we had to get people to the platform. I helped design an invite system.
Discover games
As new users landed on the platform, the next challenge was to help them find a game they would like as seamlessly as possible.
Basics onboarding
Before teaching new players how to change the game worlds and rules and ultimately create their own games, we introduced the basics, like character and camera controls.
Introduce remixing
After introducing the basics, we continued to guide the players to start manipulating the game world and changing the rules. Before they knew it, they were on their way to creating a game.