The Game Community
In terms of community, Toon Town and Kingdom of Loathing to an excellent job of uniting players together. The players have to opportunity to chat with one another and come together as a group in guilds, it gives the players a sense of belonging as if they were in a family. They also do an excellent job of hosting events for their players, especially Toon Town. The thing that makes games like Toon Town and Kingdom of Loathing really terrific is that they give their players the opportunity to have something to look forward to is a real treat, it gives you a meaning to live out life to its fullest, even though it is a game. Games have a community and in these communities people can find their own fulfillment. It provides a haven a home away from home to those players that are stuck in unfortunate circumstances in their real lives and it gives them another sense of reality that is positive. Most of all these communities in games gives these types of players hope.The parts of the games that are innovative, specifically Toon Town, is how the creators were able to incorporate mini games within the environment, which gave the players a chance to bond with other players in the same community. A game that would be lacking in community would be Bejeweled and the reason why is because Bejeweled has no community. There is no community in Bejeweled because Bejeweled hasn't gave any of its players the opportunity to interact with one another. This interaction is essential because with out it, there would be no community. A way that Bejeweled can improve is by incorporating a community mechanic. They can do this by adopting the way Puzzle Quest uses versus mode. By applying the same method of game play, Bejeweled will develop player interaction and with the start of player interaction marks the beginning of a community. They can even take this a set farther by hosting a tournament. By hosting a tournament, like the ones hosted for Quake, there will be more hype around Bejeweled and more players would want to play the game. They can even give out prizes to the players that out performs the rest and they can even give out a grand prize to the champion of Bejeweled.