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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The Rules of the Digital Games - Ch 13

The code and the rules are related but they are not the same things.

-Rules for digital games are the same as non-digital ones: they are fixes, binding, explicit and unambigious, shared, repeatable, and limit player’s action.

-Visual and audio in games can be prototyped with placeholders, which shows that they are not part of the formal structure. Hence, they are not part of rules.

-There are games where visuals can be part of the rules, e.g. size of a sprite effecting the difficulty of avoiding hazards.

Constituative rules of digital games: core logic of the game, handles internal events
Operational rules of digital games: relate directly to player’s behavior and interaction with the game, handles external events
Implicit rules of digital games: same as non-digital

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