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Game Elements

This week's reading consisted of learning the qualities of games, to help with our terminology and language when discussing game design, and also to help our understanding of the never-ending definitions of a game.

The elements of 'games' are as follows:

  1. ● Players 
  2. ● Objectives (goals) 
  3. ● Rules 
  4. ● Resources and Resource Management 
  5. ● Game State 
  6. ● Information 
  7. ● Sequencing 
  8. ● Player Interaction 
  9. ● Theme (Narrative, Backstory, Setting) 
  10. ● Games as Systems
We also learned about a critical analysis of a game, and how it's done. The biggest thing this section focuses on is not giving a grade or a score, but analyzing things that work, figuring out why and developing on that, then the same for things that don't work. Being able to give an actual analysis rather than a statement is extremely important.



Analytic Chart

"Technical analysis" by hardeep.singh is licensed under CC BY 2.0 


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