Introduction to Game Design Class - The Multiplayer Classroom: Designing Coursework as a Game - page 120

“ introducing the Hat of Knowledge, a baseball cap

courtesy of one of my IU colleagues, Edward Castronova

Introduction to Game Design, �

' s Ludium conferences.

I placed the cap on a table at the front of the class. Each guild selected a
representative to line up along the wall. I randomly chose 1 of 60 questions, of
which 40 would be on the midterm.

Instead of shouting out answers, each of these pullers waited for a signal from their
guild and then raced for the hat (see Figure 8.10). The first one to grab it had a few
seconds to hear the answer from his guild. He would then officially answer it.

Puller

In MMOs, a puller is a member of a group or raid who is tasked with pulling a mob to his
comrades, usually so it will not aggro other nearby mobs. This technique is important when a group
is able to kill one mob but could not handle more.

Some would jump the gun, grab the hat, and wait in vain for their guild to give
them the correct answer, as shown in Figure 8.11.

Others had better success, as Figure 8.12 clearly illustrates.

Figure 8.10
Guild pullers prepare to attack.