What are the instrumental factors in initiating group play?

社会动力学是一个专注于研究群体行为的领域。在游戏研究中存在许多不同的游戏领域，但团队游戏或多人游戏代表了一个充满活力和不断发展的互动领域。这个项目关注的是玩家在选择与他人一起玩游戏时所涉及的复杂且未被探索的关系。当代游戏设计似乎利用基于类型学的方法来定义和服务用户，但在社会动态中有一种无法解释的现象影响着游戏的开始。拟议的项目将进行三项细粒度、定性和混合方法研究，以了解这个问题并提出一个可行的假设。

Social Dynamics is the field which focuses on studying group behaviour. In game studies there are many different domains of play, but group play or multi-player represents a vibrant and growing domain of interaction. This project is concerned with the complicated and unexplored relationships involving players when choosing to play a game with others. Contemporary game design appears to utilise typology-based methods to define and serve an audience, but an unexplained phenomenon within social dynamics influences the commencement of play. The proposed project will undertake three granular, qualitative and mixed method studies in order to understand this problem and present a viable hypothesis.