CSC 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Carnival Games
19 Apr 2020
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Prediction: children"s games, carnival games, party games, all individual mechanics in the game work toward allowing the player to guess what will happen, rewarded for predicting the possible outcome, players prediction involves luck or consideration of odds. Survival: humans are naturally wired to survive and thrive, we will protect ourselves out of sheer instinct before we"re even told the point of the game. It is important not to confuse a core with a lose condition. Destruction: the flip side of the survival dynamic, or the companion side if it"s a pvp game, is the wreck-everything-in-sight dynamic, every fps ever made features this core dynamic. Building: create something using specified resources, links well into learning situations. In most rpgs, the core dynamic is character development building up the power level of a character. Collection and matching: find and get specified objects or people, extremely popular as a dynamic, collection features prominently in, collectible card games, casual games, platformers.
