Analysis of Design Project

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Analysis of Design Project
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Deadlines Existing Game Analysis Project

• Deadline written document April 12th in class,
  printed!
• Deadline PowerPoint presentation April 12th
  until noon (EST time) has to be e-mailed to me
• munoz_at_cse.lehigh.edu
• No other changes are accepted once handed in
• Presentations will be made in class (plan 15
  minutes) starting on April 12th
• Grades will be made by comparing the
  effort/thought put into it by the various groups
• START WORKING on IT TODAY!

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Talking Points (1)

• Note always justify your assertions by pointing
  to material from class/book
• Length 20 pages
• Describe the game what it does
• kind of game classify according to Artificial
  Intelligence perspective
• Overall game meaningful play?
• Parts were meaningful play is really well done?

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Talking Points (2)

• FSM. Draw the FSM for one of the cool
  encounters in the game
• Is it a game?
• Map the 5 elements of the definition of game to
  your specific game
• Game as system
• Explain the 4 elements (attributes, etc) and 3
  dimensions (formal, experiential, cultural) for
  the game
• Interactivity
• Map the anatomy of choice answer the five
  questions for the game
• Parts were no meaningful play is achieved?
• Which of these questions was not appropriately
  considered by designer
• How would you solve this?
• Describe the magic circle for the game and the
  primary schemas
• Describe a subset of operational, constitutive
  and implicit rules of game

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Talking Points (3)

• Game as Information Theory Systems
• Any information redundancy?
• Any noise in information?
• Are these planned as part of the game design?
• Game as information systems classify the
  information according to the four kinds of
  information discussed in class (known to all
  players, to one player, etc.)
• Games as cybernetic systems Identify a feedback
  system in the game and present it

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Talking points Presentations

• How/who presents is up to you (mix is ok)
• Estimate time 15 minutes
• Start by Introducing the game. Video clip is ok
  but not required
• Explain why you selected this game
• Describe your answer to the question Is this a
  game? from Slide 4
• Afterwards be selective concentrate on cool,
  interesting, noteworthy (including bad) aspects
  of the design of your particular game
• But obviously must be a subset of what you wrote
  in the document
• Questions?