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| Explain what a Magic Circle is. |
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| - a place where players enter the game space, where the game takes place |
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| Why is the Magic Circle important to Game Development? |
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- high level road mapping for design techniques
- supports brainstorming |
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| - play that serves some significant function that imparts meaning into the action |
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| - a form of evaluative play that means a player can perceive the immediate outcome of an action |
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| - a form of evaluative play that means the outcome of an action is woven into the game system as a whole |
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| - a set of rules create fairness for players to follow |
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| Who is Johan Huizinga and what was his significance to Game Development? |
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| - contributed to the discovery of the magic circle and meaningful play |
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| - the main aspect or appeal of a game |
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| What are some examples of core mechanics? |
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- territorial acquisition
- prediction
- spatial reasoning
- survival
- destruction
- building
- collection
- chasing or evading
- trading |
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| What are constituative rules? |
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| - the abstract, core mathematical rules of a game; the fundamental inner workings of a game |
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| What are operational rules? |
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| - the rules that players follow in order to play the game; must be very transparent and obvious to the user |
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| - the basic etiquette and behaviors gamers expect of one another |
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| - rules that allow players to focus on the experience of the play rather than on the logic of the rules. |
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| - deals with the regulation and control of systems, the ways a system gauges its effects and makes necessary adjustments |
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| - the study of how meanings are made; signs are used to designate objects or ideas |
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| Who is Ferdinand de Saussure? |
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| - considered the father of linguistics in the 20th century |
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| - a form of semiotic that distinguishes certain actions and objects |
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| - more analytically competitive games, in which each player's moves and strategies available for the other to see |
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| - being rewarded for completing certain tasks, like bonus points or an extra life |
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| - the removal of something unpleasant, like silencing a loud noise |
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| - the addition of something unpleasant such as a sudden electric shock |
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| - enable a player's avatar to do things they couldn't do before or enhance abilities they already have, like a jet pack or walking through walls |
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| - allows a player to access to new location or resources, generally used only once, and they have no other value to the player once they've been used |
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| - given to the player to maintain their status quo, like a health pack or mana potions |
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| - no impact on the game play itself but will be things they end up taking away from the experience |
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| What does fixed reinforcement mean? |
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| - rewards or punishments are occurring at a steady continuous rate. |
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| What does variable reinforcement mean? |
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| - rewards and punishments are coming at irregular intervals |
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| First order of cybernetics |
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| - organizational and control relations on systems, where the system designer determines what the system will do |
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| Second order of cybernetics |
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| - organizational and control relations of systems, emphasizing autonomy, self-organization, cognition, and the role of the observer |
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| - measures some aspect of the system or environment |
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| - compares measured aspect to a set of values and decides whether or not to take action |
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| - creates a change in the system |
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| Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment |
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| - analyzes the performance of the player within a system and then reduces or increases difficulty accordingly |
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| - an adaptive system that improves gameplay experience by adjusting flow experiences based on the players. |
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| What does MDA mean? Explain |
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| - Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics. A formal approach to understanding games, one which attempts to bridge the gap between game design and development, game criticism, and technical game research |
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| - study of making decisions that yields the greatest "payoff" |
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| - won Nobel prize for his work in evolutionary game theory |
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| - a grid of cells used to diagram the possible outcomes of a game theory problem, shows win/lose outcome of a game |
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| What is a normal form game? |
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| - a representation of a game that includes all perceptible and conceivable strategies and their corresponding payoffs, for each player |
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| What is an extensive form game? |
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| - form of game that attempts to capture games with some important order |
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| - the amount of "winnable goods" (resources) is fixed, one player loses while the other wins |
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| What is a non-zero-sum game? |
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| - the total amount gained is variable, both players may win or lose |
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| What is the Prisoner's Dilemma? |
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| - a situation that varies the reward depending on each persons decision |
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| - limited number of strategies, must be two or more |
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| What is infinite strategy? |
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| - infinite number of stragties |
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| What is a simultaneous game? |
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| - games in which both players make moves at the same time |
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| What is a sequential game? |
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| - are typically turn-based games in which the each player has some knowledge of the previous players actions |
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| What does opposing interest mean? |
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| - selecting the course of action that seems or is more favorable, outcome can vary. |
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| - an assignment of value to the possible outcomes of a game |
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- provides challenge to players
- can create flow if done right |
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| Describe the different types of goals and give examples. |
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-Long Term: usually the endpoint
-Mid Term: cannot be performed instantly but also do not signify the end of the game
-Short Term: many pleasures that are parallel to winning |
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| An experiment where a dog learned to associate a bell ringing with food. |
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| What does operant behavior mean? |
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| - people learn to behave the way that they do because a certain kind of behavior has been rewarded in the past? |
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| Attributed a more active role to the learning subject. (operant behavior). |
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| What is the effect on negative and positive reinforcement on Games? |
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| help shape the fabric of any game experience |
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