Week 2 Readings I Have No Words I Must Design

1. ·         Gameplay is magical
2. ·         Game designers strive to understand gameplay
3. ·         Many different games have been developed over years
4. ·         Game vocabulary is needed to create a game
5. ·         Games are a plastic medium between the process of doing something and having fun
6. ·         All games have puzzle elements
7. ·         Costikyan says that games are not just limited to the platform they are on, every game is different and that they are everywhere
8. ·         The game isn’t good if it’s too easy or too fun
9. ·         The difficulty of a game needs to be balanced
10. ·         Good visuals make a good game
11. ·         To make sense of games you need to understand what a game is

Interaction

·         Every game needs to define its interaction

·         The player has to have some sort of control over a game

·         when the game reacts to the users inactivity it’s a game if it doesn’t that means it’s a puzzle

·         Interactive media is a game

Goals

·         You can create your own goals

·         Goals in a game link to interactivity

·         A game without goals is not a game

·         There must be ovjectives

Struggle

·         In a game there needs to be struggle otherwise it’s not fun

·         It adds completion to the game

·         Struggle creates satisfaction for when it’s completed

·         If the game is too hard they player will not enjoy it and get frustrated

Structure

·         The structure shapes the game

·         Adding rules structures the game

Endogenous

·         Things that are meaningful with in a game

·         Costikyan explains that the games being made create their own meaning. The players figure out what they want to do and how they want to do it, giving it a new meaning every time it is played.