Harvesting Game Design Patterns

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HarvestingGame Design Patterns
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Goal of the exercise

• Train in identifying design patterns in games
• Take one simple and hopefully familiar computer
  game and analyze it
• Present results to all participants

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Method

• Identify as many patterns as possible in it
• Use the phases from the previous lecture to work
  with one candidate
• Analyze
• Describe
• Test
• Evaluate
• But does this quickly so you can repeat this with
  the other candidates!

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Games to choose from

• Space Invaders
• Minesweeper
• Asteroids
• Missile Command
• Pacman
• Tetris

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Cheat sheet

• Tokens
• Information structure
• Control structure
• Engagements Closures
• Goals
• Interaction Experience
• Rules

Rules