Quiz 6 Flashcards
What does MMORPG stand for?
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games
What two needs do digital games satisfy
Emotional and Cognitive
Getting lost in tasks
Flow
The way digital game players focus on the steps within the process of moving through a game
Telescoping
Difference between telescoping and multitasking?
Telescoping: Specific sequence of ordered objectives
Multitasking: Chaotic stream of unrelated objectives
Nine steps of digital game design
- ) Demo
- ) Determine what player will do while playing
- ) Environments and characters
- ) Digital code
- ) Alpha version
- ) Fix bugs
- ) Test beta by making it available to players
- ) Game goes gold
- ) Designs the box, produces and distributes game disks
Categories of play
Agon Alea Mimicry Ilinx Exploration Social Play
Competition is the primary focus, enjoyment is derived from competing
Agon
Games of chance
Alea
Play involving make-believe, players take on a new identity
Mimicry
Players seek vertigo, the temporary destabilization of the perceptual system, such as in fairground rides
Ilinx
Exploring new places and discovering new things
Exploration
Contact with others by joining special clans with secret languages, nicknames, initiation rites, etc
Social play
The kinds of emotions designers want the game to trigger in players
Affective Tone
Six design rules that apply to all successful digital games
- ) There must be rewards for good players, and punishments for bad players
- ) Easy to learn
- ) Predictable
- ) Should be constant
- ) Familiarity
- ) Should be challenging
