What makes a game? Here we will seek to look at the most basic elements of games which can be applied to modern console games all the way to classic board games.

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2. WHAT ARE THE ATOMIC ELEMENTS OF GAMES?

3. PRESS STARTLEVEL 1

4. WHAT MAKES A GAME? Long story short: No ideas = no game

5. 09 main elements of games Players Objectives Rules & Regulations Resources and Resource Mgt. The Game State Information Game Sequencing Player Interaction Theme or Narrative

6. 1.pLAYERS Who’s playing who in this game?

8. PvE

9. Head-to-head gameplay

10. 1 player against many

11. Free-for-all

12. Team competition

16. HEAD-TO-HEAD

18. TEAM COMPETITION

20. 2.GAME OBJECTIVES What are you trying to do?

22. Territorial Control

23. Resource Collection

24. Solving

25. Chase/Race/Escape

26. Spatial Alignment

27. Building

30. CHASE/RACE/ESCAPE

32. SPATIAL ALIGNMENT

35. Negation of allowable goals

37. 3.RULES & REGULATIONS Accepted methods of play among all players

39. Progression of Play

42. Territory

43. Time

44. Objects

46. 6.INFORMATION How much data is visible to the player?

48. Private Information

49. Privileged Information

50. Hidden Information

53. PRIVATE INFORMATION

55. HIDDEN INFORMATION

57. 7.GAME SEQUENCING What order do players execute their move?

59. Simultaneous Turn-based

60. Real-time Deployment

66. Real-time deployment

68. 8.PLAYER INTERACTION How does one player act against another?

70. Negotiation (“Do this for me, and I’ll do this for you.”)

71. Trading

74. 9. THEME OR narrative Adding an emotional connection to your game

77. Existent narrative

79. 3d rendition

81. Cell shading

83. There you have it! Players Objectives Rules & Regulations Resources and Resource Mgt. The Game State Information Game Sequencing Player Interaction Theme or Narrative

84. unTIL THENdon’t GIVE UP!

85. THANKS!(+10 POINTS FOR GETTING THIS FAR)