Is it really good to be bad? Analysing of Dungeon Keeper, a 1997 video game.

1. Dungeon Keeper
It’s GOOD to be BAD!
Ido Adler
2014

2. Dungeon Keeper
• About the game
• How GOOD is it to be BAD?
• What came next?
• Female representation

3. Dungeon Keeper

4. Games I loved

5. Timeline
DK
Doom Mario 64 Half-Life StarCraft
1993 1996 1998 1998
1997

6. Origins
WizWar
Populous
Magic Carpet

7. Check List
3D Fantasy environment
RTS
FPS
Unique experience with each unit
Be Evil
Multiplayer
God Game
Magic System
Dungeon Management
Maze Building with Traps
Unique Playable Enemy Units
Ecology
Narrator

8. Simon Carter Interview
http://goo.gl/YzwFQz

9. Why Being Bad?
!
• Gaining Control
• Playing a character
• Experimenting
• Raising Moral questions
(Not Really)

10. Why Being Bad
• I don’t want “Goodness Score”
• I want to treat whoever I want however I want.
• I want to be able to kill chickens even if I get nothing
in return.
• DON’T FORCE ME TO BE BAD!
- DK Mobile “Slap Imps to continue”, I’m looking at
you… (possible exception - the walking dead)

11. Theme Hospital
1997
1997

12. DK2
1999

13. DK3
2000

14. Startopia
2001

15. Black and White (1, 2)
2001

16. Ghost Master
2003
Spiritual Sequel

17. Evil Genius
2004

18. Overlord (1, 2)
2007

19. Dungeons
2011

20. Prison Architect
2012

21. War For The Overworld
2012?

22. DK Mobile
2014

23. KeeperFX

24. That Which Sleeps
Coming

25. Meet the girls

26. War For The Overworld
• Why only casters?
• Are non-gendered monster a good solution?
• “Content can be added by users later”
• “Hideous monsters can’t be females”
• “There were no females in the dark ages”

27. War For The Overworld

28. Thank
You