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Human Punishment: Social Deduction 2.0

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2018
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Human Punishment is a combination of social deduction, social experiment, and party game for 4-16 players. Each player takes on the role of a human, a machine, or an outlaw in a distant future. Players must investigate others to figure out who is on their side, grab one of the four different weapons, and eliminate the enemies. Stay focused because hidden enemies may be on your team! Find your team, trust no one!

The traitor mechanism in Human Punishment transforms the table into a social experiment...

Description

Human Punishment is a combination of social deduction, social experiment, and party game for 4-16 players. Each player takes on the role of a human, a machine, or an outlaw in a distant future. Players must investigate others to figure out who is on their side, grab one of the four different weapons, and eliminate the enemies. Stay focused because hidden enemies may be on your team! Find your team, trust no one!

The traitor mechanism in Human Punishment transforms the table into a social experiment...

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  • social deduction
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  • The noise is not organic. It's built.
  • The information environment around a game's launch is structurally compromised in ways most hobbyists have absolutely no idea about.
  • The hotness does not measure quality. It does not measure how many people are enjoying a game. It measures activity, page views and forum thread activity.
  • Previews are universally positive in tone because the entire purpose of a preview from the publisher's perspective is to generate excitement.
  • A preview is an advertisement that does not always announce itself as one.
  • The structural pressure that creates on the honesty of reviews.
  • The incentive to be positive is not always conscious. It rarely manifests as someone deciding to lie. It shows up in softer ways.
  • Publishers are not stupid. When they choose which creators to send games to, they tend to gravitate toward people who covered their previous games positively.
  • Crowdfunding campaigns are not just fundraising tools, they're psychological environments specifically designed to manufacture urgency and suppress rational decision-making.
  • It's behavioral economics weaponized against your wallet, and it works on us, too.
  • The FTC has actually noticed all of this, by the way.
  • There are documented cases of publishers going after creators who gave their game a negative review, including approaching the creator's sponsors to pressure them into removing content.
  • The board game content space has been slow to comply. Disclosure practices vary wildly.
  • The review copy is a permanent gift. Yeah, this one is wild when you actually think about it.
  • The game did not fail. The hype around it failed the game.
  • The hype machine is not going away. The economic incentives that drive it are too strong.
  • Once you can see the machinery behind the curtain, the magic stops working.
  • The publishers who rely most heavily on these tactics are not creating the hobbies best games. They're creating the hobbies most marketed games.
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