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| 3 Types of 3rd Person Camera |
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1. Stationary (Horror/Adventure)
2. Player Controlled (Platformers, MMOs)
3. Automatic (Fighting, Racing) |
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| Pros/Cons 3rd Person Stationary Camera |
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Pros: Low computation time, allows pre-rendered backgrounds
Cons: No user control, character must not occlude surroundings |
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| Pros/Cons 3rd Person Player Controlled Camera |
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Pros: User freedom
Cons: Control complication |
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| Pros/Cons 3rd Person Automatic Camera |
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Pros: Show the player what they should see
Cons: Less player freedom |
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| Pros/Cons Cinematic Camera Use |
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Pros: Communicates story
Cons: Removes control from the player, breaks immersion |
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| First Dimension Cardinality |
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| Two directions of movement |
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| Second Dimension Cardinality |
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| Four directions of movement |
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| Third Dimension Cardinality |
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| When the player has done everything there is to do in a game |
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| When the game's story is complete |
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| When the player runs out of resources needed to play the game (lives) |
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| Managing or regulating the gameplay experience by designing the game into some kind of segments |
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| The division of gameplay into self-contained puzzles or trials (waves) |
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| Division of the gameworld into different spaces, rather than a continuous whole world, possibly with different rules in each space |
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| Limiting, synchronizing, and/or coordinating player activity over time (quarters of a football game) |
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| Dividing gameplay for the purpose of working alongside a storyline, sometimes altering the narrative and games between (often coincides with the other segmentations) |
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| Positive reinforcement for playing a game, either in game or enjoyment of playing the game |
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| Optimal experience in which full immersion is achieved (no self-awareness and no sense of actual time) |
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| Prerequisites for Flow (4) |
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1. Challenge
2. Goals
3. Feedback
4. Having control in an uncertain situation |
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| Get the player to enter the magic circle and stay in the magic circle |
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| A strict relationship between reality and what the game is representing; procedural representation of aspects of reality |
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| Sim games are games that allow players to experience a representation of reality through meaningful play without real world consequences |
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| 2 Levels of Procedural Representation |
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1. Games are representation (macro)
2. Games can represent (micro) |
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| Categories of Conflict (3) |
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1. Territorial
2. Economic
3. Knowledge |
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1. Numerical (logical/mathematical rules)
2. Limited (not complete representation of reality) |
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| Choices in the Design of Sim Games (2) |
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1. What/How to simulate
2. Scope and depth of the simulation |
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| Structure of Simulations (2) |
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1. Case-based logic, in which relationships are specified in advance
2. Generalized logic, in which elements have sets of general attributes |
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1. Immediacy (true, authentic representations)
2. Hypermediacy (emphasized the constructed nature of a representation) |
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| Player/Character Relationship (3) |
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1. Direct identification with character
2. Engagement with game procedures as a player
3. Existence in larger social context as a person |
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| Simulation through world construction |
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| Simulation by display of images |
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| Procedural Content Generation |
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| Random/psudo-random (quality metrics) process to generate game content resulting in an unpredictable range of possible game play spaces. |
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| Computational Narratology |
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| Generation of automatic analysis and stories using formal models. |
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| Computational Narratology Elements (4) |
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1. Artificial Intelligence
2. Literary Theory
3. Film Studies
4. Psychology |
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1. Story
2. Discourse
3. Text |
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| A complete list of all events and their relationships |
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| A select set of events from the story, possibly with information omitted and possibly told out of order to achieve some effect |
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| The models of expression afforded by the medium through which the tale is told |
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1. Reduced authoring burden
2. Emergent behavior
3. Replay value
4. Thwart walkthroughs |
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1. Difficult to design quality metrics
2. Lack of control (quality/support)
3. Thwart walkthroughs |
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| Any strategy, action, or method used in a game which transcends a prescribed rule set, uses external factors to affect the game, or goes beyond the supposed limits or environment set by the game |
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Quality of an object that allows an individual to perform an action
(knobs:twisting :: cords:pulling) |
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| Meta Pros (2) and Cons (2) |
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Pros: enjoyable, interesting out of game context
Cons: overpowering/cheating, breaks 4th wall |
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| Design of Affordances (4) |
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1. Make them explicit
2. Hide them from the player
3. Use subtle cues
4. Call the player out for breaking the 4th wall |
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| Characteristics of a Narrative (3) |
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1. Situation (events that change over time)
2. Character (system of representation)
3. Form (patterning & repetition |
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| Categories of Structures for Narrative Play (2) |
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1. Experience a game narrative as an interactive story
2. Engage with the narrative as it emerges during gameplay |
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| Pre-generated elements of a narrative (cutscenes) |
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| Created on-the-fly elements as a result of the player's interaction with the game (context-dependent) |
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| larger frames that contain the game world narrative |
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| individual moments of narrative created as the game progresses |
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