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Chapter 9 - Gameplay
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Gameplay: Consists of the challenges and actions that a game offers. Challenges for the player to overcome and actions that let her overcome them
What is Gameplay?
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The primary goal of a game designer is to provide entertainment
Gameplay is the primary means of entertainment
Without gameplay, an activity may be fun, but it is not a game
Making games fun
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“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety nine percent perspiration”
-Thomas Edison
Execution Matters more than Innovation
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Most of what makes a game fun has nothing to do with imagination or creativity
The vast majority of things that make a game not fun result from bad execution rather than a bad idea.
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(1) Avoid elementary errors:Bad programming,bad music and sound, bad art, bad user interfaces,and bad game design all ruin theplayers funs
How to make a game fun
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(2) Tuning and Polishing:-This means paying attention to detail, getting everything perfect.-This is the difference between a good game and a mediocre one.
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(3) Imaginative variations on the games premise:-Take the basic elements of the game and construct and enjoyable experience out of them
-Level designers do most of this work
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(4) True design innovation:Encompasses the games original idea and subsequent decisions that you make
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Innovation by the game designer contributes only a small part of the fun of the game.
This may make it sound like there is not a lot of point in game design…
How to make a game fun cont..
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There is no formula for making your game fun
There are a set of principles to keep in mind as your design and build your game:
Finding the Fun Factor
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Gameplay comes first: Create your game to give people fun things to do
Finding the Fun Factor cont…
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Get a feature right or leave it out: It is far worse to ship a game with a broken feature than it is to with a missing feature
Finding the Fun Factor cont…
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Design around the player: Examine every decision from the players point of view. Games that lose sight of the player, lose sight of fun
Finding the Fun Factor cont…
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Know your target audience: Different groups of players want different things, know what they want and what they think is fun, and then provide it
Finding the Fun Factor cont…
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Abstract or automate parts of the simulation that aren’t fun: If you model your game on the real world, leave out the parts that aren’t fun
Finding the Fun Factor cont…
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Be true to your vision: Don’t add unnecessary features that will distract you from your original vision.
Finding the Fun Factor cont…
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Strive for harmony, elegance, and beauty: A lack of aesthetic perfection doesn’t take all the fun out of a game, but the absence of these qualities appreciably diminishes it
Finding the Fun Factor cont…
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“When you’re up to your ass in alligators, it’s hard to remember that your original objective was to drain the swamp”
-Unattributed
The Hierarchy of Challenges
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Hierarchy of Challenges for Super Mario Bros:
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Explicit Challenges: Challenges that are told directly to the player i.e “save the princess”
-Typically the topmost and the bottom most challenges are explicit challenges
Informing the player about challenges
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Implicit Challenges: Challenges that the player discovers on their own
- Most intermediate challenges are implicit- If there are no implicit challenges, it doesn’t
feel like a game
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Reward victory no matter how the players achieve it
Design Rule:
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Intrinsic skill: The level of skill needed to surmount the challenge if you give the player an unlimited amount of time in which to do it.
Skill, Stress, and Absolute difficulty
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Stress: Measures how a player perceives the effect of time pressure on his ability to meet a challenge requiring a given level of intrinsic skill.
Skill, Stress, and Absolute difficulty Cont…
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Absolute Difficulty: Refers to the intrinsic skill required and stressfulness put together
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Tests the players physical abilities – most commonly hand-eye coordination
There are different types of physical coordination challenges…
Commonly used Challenges-Physical Coordination Challenges:
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Speed and Reaction time: Speed challenges test the players ability to
make rapid inputs on the controls Reaction time challenges test the players
ability to react quickly to events Example: Tetris
Physical Coordination Challenges:
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Accuracy and Precision: Accuracy and Precision challenges need not
to take place in a time limit
Example: Wii Sports Archery
Physical Coordination Challenges Cont…
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Intuitive understanding of physics In a racing game, players must learn
through experience a cars breaking distance, acceleration rate, etc.
Example: Portal
Physical Coordination Challenges Cont…
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Timing and Rhythm: Timing and Rhythm challenges test the
players ability to press the right button at the right time
Example – Guitar Hero
Physical Coordination Challenges Cont…
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Combination moves: Many fighting games require complex
combinations of button presses in order to do a cool move
Example – Street Fighter
Physical Coordination Challenges Cont…
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Formal logic puzzles: The definition of the puzzle contains, or
explains everything the player needs to solve to puzzle
Example – Minesweeper
Logical and Mathematical Challenges
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Avoid trial and errorsolutions
Design Rule
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Mathematical challenges:
Include an element of chance
Example - Hearts
Logical and Mathematical Challenges Cont…
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Discourages careful strategic thought and instead encourages direct brute-force solution
Increases the stress on a player and changes the feeling of the gameplay considerably
Example - Frogger
Race and Time Pressure Challenges
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Direct test of players knowledge of factual information
Usually occurs in trivia and quiz games
Example – Trivial Pursuit
Design Rule: Make it clear when factual knowledge is required
Factual Knowledge Challenges
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Tests the players ability to recall things the she has seen or heard in the game
Action and adventure games get you to remember things that will be needed later on
Example - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2kZQMtifOE
Memory Challenges