Mob

Frame · Group forms social

A spontaneous crowd – no structure, no leadership, only emotion, dynamics and the power of numbers.

Design question – In your game a crowd moves. What drives it – anger, enthusiasm, panic? And can someone steer the crowd, or does it have a will of its own?

Reference example – Twitch Plays Pokémon: tens of thousands control one character at the same time, without leadership, and yet the game progresses. Football: the Mexican wave in the stadium – a crowd that organises itself.

Associations

• Typical Activities – Swarming, Stampeding, Rallying, Panicking

Coherence

Activities: Swarming, Stampeding, Rallying, Panicking. Mechanisms: Swarm AI (mass movement as a system), Escalation, Crowd Control, Chain Reaction. Ludic Organisational Structures: social order (absent or emergent), spatial order (the crowd fills spaces). Ludic Social Structure: the crowd as NPC (controlled by Ludic Regulation) or as emergent player dynamics.