game design

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• Resource for game design: https://xelnath.com/

1. flow

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   • Being "in the zone". The desire to keep playing to see what happens next, how the game is capable of surprising you.
2. challenge

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   • Difficulty before reward.
3. narrative

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   • Theme, motif, consistency, element of surprise, suspension of disbelief
4. gameplay

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   • Smooth, consistent, polished, unless bad gameplay is uplifted by a strong countering narrative.