Game Play Styles

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Game Play Styles

• Structure of Game Play

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Game Play Styles

• Games Have various structures that the user must
  handle
• Common structures appear in many games

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Suggestions?
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Material Removal

• Object is to remove opponents pieces
• Examples
• Chess
• Checkers
• War games
• Action games (Space Invaders, Pac-Man, Asteroids)

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Driving

• Player must control vehicle/self to win
• Must conform to environment
• Music and Dance games do this
• Fighting game combos

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Puzzle

• Some self-contained artifact must be rearranged
  into a solved position
• Sokoban
• Adventure games

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Rescue/Collection

• Someone needs to be saved from peril
• Defender, Choplifter, Donkey Kong
• Something needs to be collected
• Mario Bros, Pikmin
• Diablo, MMORPGs

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Economic Simulation

• Get the most stuff
• He who dies with the most toys wins!

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Collision Detection

• Shooting
• Player shoots a projectile to make progress
  towards winning

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Collision Detection

• Direct Attack/Block
• Fighting Games

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Obstacle Avoidance

• Player must avoid environmental objects/enemies
  to win
• Pac-Man (Inky, Pinky, etc)
• Centipede
• Frogger
• Mario Bros etc etc

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Obstacle Creation

• Player creates or controls environment to
  influence or defeat opponent
• Eg. Light cycles in Tron
• Walls in strategy games
• Go

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Dynamic Puzzle

• Some dynamic artifact must be navigated through
• Deadly pendulums swinging!

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Search

• Somethings hidden in the environment
• Key to locked door

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Economy Simulation

• Resource gathering
• Gold, Wood, Iron, etc, etc
• Direct
• AOE gatherer units, CC
• Indirect
• Total Annihilation, Kingdoms,

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Economic Simulation

• Buildings
• Create NPCs
• AOE, Warcraft, Caesar III
• Create/transform materials
• Settlers, Caesar III

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Economic Simulation

• Traffic Flow
• Roads!
• NPC must pass a building for a transaction to
  take place
• Zoo Tycoon, Caesar III
• NPC must stop and deliver/pick something up
• Railroad Tycoon

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Research

• Create a new technology that makes your NPCs
  better
• AOE, Starcraft
• Advance your civilization

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Dialog/Negotiation

• You talk to other players/NPCs
• To learn things
• To gain/lose membership in a gang/guild/club
• To coordinate attack/defense
• Trade
• Read environment for clues
• News clippings

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Artificial Life

• Must grow your creature
• Train it
• Feed it