A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research

A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research

1. Iterative, qualitative and quantitative analyses support the designer in two important ways.

   • Help analyze the end result to refine implementation, and analyze the implementation to refine the result.

2. Towards a Comprehensive Framework

   • base mechanisms of game systems, the overarching design goals, or the desired experiential results of gameplay.
   • user experience must bottom out, somewhere, in code.
   • D ecomposing, understanding and creating this coherence requires travel between all levels of abstraction

3. MDA

   • Games are created by designers/teams of developers, and consumed by players
     • their consumption is relatively unpredictable .
   • MDA framework
   • Design counterparts
     • Mechanics describes the particular components of the game, at the level of data representation and algorithms.
     • Dynamics describes the run-time behavior of the mechanics acting on player inputs and each othersí outputs over time
     • Aesthetics describes the desirable emotional responses evoked in the player, when she interacts with the game system.

4. Aesthetics

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