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week 09 - formal elements: strategy, theory & gameplay

Formal Elements vs. Dramatic Elements

Player
Objective
Procedure
Rules
Resources
Conflict
Boundries
Outcome

System Dynamics

Game Objects
- properties
- behaviours
- relationships
- unpredictable outcomes = playability

True Emergence

Cellular Automata


Structures of Game Dynamics


KEY CHAPTER QUESTIONS

■How are a game’s challenges and strategies associated with gameplay?

■ What are interactivity modes and how do they relate to gameplay?

■ What is the relationship between gameplay and story?

■ What is the difference between static and dynamic balance?

■ How can the Prisoner’s Dilemma and the tragedy of the commons be applied to cooperative gameplay?


SUMMARY

• Rules: victory vs. loss conditions
• Interactivity modes
• Game theory: Prisoner’s Dilemma &   tragedy of the commons
• Types of challenges
• Challenges & game goals/objectives
• Static vs. dynamic balance

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