A simple model to help those understand how games teach and function.

4. What the Player wishes to achieve.

◦ Main goals
 Winning!
◦ Sub-Goals
 Shiny things
◦ Sense of purpose.
◦ Reason to go on.

5. Something that impedes the player’s

progress.
Example:

◦ Spike pit
◦ A Monster
◦ A challenge of sorts.
◦ Feeling of Accomplishment

6. Tools are what the player use to get to a goal.

Examples:

A Sword
◦
A Spell
◦
A Jump
◦
Your vocabulary….
◦
◦ Players must learn to use them properly.

7. Goal:

◦ Cake
Tool:

◦ Butter Knife
Obstacle

◦ Pencil

8. The Player’s ability to fail and try again.

◦ Its just a game.
◦ Examples:
 Extra Lives
 Health Bar
◦ Quest for perfection

9. The process of acquiring skills and knowledge

though gameplay.
This learning translates to similar games.

Isn’t easy to see.


10. A perfect line.

Too hard

◦ Frustration
Too easy

◦ Boredom
Just right makes everything fun.


11. Goal:

◦ Shiny Star
Obstacle:

◦ Pit
Tool:

◦ Swing Rope
Second Chance:

◦ Extra Lives

19. Create a game with a story around concepts.

Obstacle

◦ Cat?
Goal

◦ A book?
Tool

◦ Ribbon?