GAME

GAME

1. VideoGame

   • Taxonomy
     • A "Good Game" depends on one tase
       • Strategy
         • Games of Chance
         • Educational and Childrens
         • Interpersonal
         • Complex World
         • Motor Skills
         • Types
           • Adventure
       • Skill-and-Action Games
         • Combat Games
           • Mostly 3D person geometry
           • Limited Full Mobility
           • Maze Games
             • Jawbreak
             • PAC-MAN
             • More Through laberynth
           • Sport Games
           • Paddle Games
           • Race Games
   • Design
     • Goal
       • Clear
       • Defined
         • Emotions
         • Fantasies
       • Satisfy user & dev
       • Topic
         • Enviroment of the game
         • Main inspiration
     • Percepts
       • 1. Go with the grain
       • 2. Don't Transplant
       • 3. Design around the I/O
       • 4. Keep it clean
       • 5. Stone less and process more
       • 6. Branch soptly
         • Indirect Algorithms
           • Better Branching
       • 7. Design unity
         • Designer -> Programer
           • Creative Progress Unified by single mind
     • Sequence
       • Manipulability
       • Program Structure
       • Design Phase
         • Research
         • I/O Interface
           • Digital
             • Limitations
           • Physical
             • Generate a Feeling
       • Flow Chart
       • Evaluation of Design

2. PlayTesting Phase

   • Fatal Problems
   • Non Fatal Problems
     • Efficiency
   • Critics
     • Constructive
     • Useless

3. Subset of Reality

4. Fundamental to Human Life

5. Categories

   • Board
   • Cards
     • Involves a simple set of physical equipment
       • Many cards
       • Each card unique
       • Each card possesses a numeric value
       • Each card possesses a suit a two bit value
       • Selectively revealed
       • Easily assignable to an owner
   • Athletic
   • Computer
     • Strenthgs
       • Quick to react to the player
       • Can change the game's rules on the go
       • Refers itself
       • Provides opponents in the shape of AI
       • Can withold info from the player
       • Enables players to play together
     • Weaknesses
       • Dependent on coherent I/O
       • Discourages local multiplayer
       • Heavy programming work

6. Closed, formal system

   • Explicit Rules
   • Autosuficient
   • Collections of Parts

7. Motivation

   • Acknowledgement
     • 2 players recognize each other
   • To Learn (Fundamental)
   • Fantasy
     • Participating in an unreal world
   • Nose-Thumbing
     • Overcoming social restrictions
   • Proving Oneself
     • Demonstrate prowebs
   • Exercise
     • Mental
     • Physical
     • Exercise skills
       • Appropiate Levels
   • Social Lubrication
     • Moment for socializing

8. What's so Special

   • What makes one game more fun than another?
     • Personalities
     • Tastes
       • Not Static
     • Motivations
     • Public

9. Postmortem

   • Brace Yourself
   • Unkown Bugs
   • Sells
     • Get Known
     • Accept or Change Artistic View

10. Elements

    • Interaction
      • Puzzle
      • Stories
      • Toys
      • Interpersonal Element
        • User adapts cmd reacts
    • Safety
      • Safeway to experience reality
        • Unlimited attemps
        • Fake Money
      • Lessens the shame of defeat
    • Conflict
      • Obstacles
      • Challenges
      • Real Life representations