1. What is a game?
Jesper Juul in The Game, the Player, the World: Looking for a Heart of Gamesness identifies six characteristics that that games have – what he
calls ‘gamesness’: Choose three games and see if they fit into these characteristics. Try and find at least one game that doesn’t fit the criteria.
Temple
Run
Mario
Kart
Theme
Hospital
1. It must have rules
In
the
game
you
must
direct
the
man
In
the
career
in
Mario
Cart
you
have
In
theme
hospital
the
rules
are
that
as
he
runs
along
the
path.
As
he
to
make
your
way
through
all
the
you
have
to
build
and
hospital
that
comes
across
different
obstacles
he
levels
trying
to
become
in
the
top
3
your
characters
than
be
treated
in.
must
either
duck,
jump
or
turn
in
order
to
move
on
to
the
next
level.
You
cannot
build
anything
else
as
depending
on
what
comes
at
you.
If
Whist
doing
this
you
unlock
you
are
not
given
the
recourses.
In
you
struggle
to
do
this
you
will
different
characters
and
cars
in
other
aspects
of
the
game
you
can
either
hit
the
obstacle
or
fall
off
the
order
to
make
the
game
enjoyable.
borrow
money
from
the
bank
but
path
and
therefore
die.
the
rules
are
that
you
must
play
it
back
otherwise
they
will
start
repossessing
your
hospital.
Other
than
that
there
are
no
definitive
rules
because
as
the
player
you’re
free
to
create
a
good
a
hospital,
as
you
like.
2. There are variable and The
variable
outcome
in
temple
run
The
variable
outcome
in
Mario
Kart,
The
variable
outcome
would
be
the
quantifiable outcomes
is
the
obstacles
that
come
at
your
is
the
different
tracks
and
that
they
design
and
look
of
your
hospital
at
and
the
speed
that
the
man
runs
as
get
harder,
longer
and
more
the
end
and
throughout
the
game
the
games
goes
on.
The
quantifiable
complicated
as
the
game
progresses
play.
The
Quantifiable
outcome
in
outcomes
are
the
coins,
which
you
and
the
player
becomes
better.
The
Theme
Hospital
would
be
the
can
collect
on
the
path
as
your
man
quantifiable
outcomes
of
Mario
Kart
amount
of
money
that
the
hospital
run,
another
quantifiable
outcome
is
is
the
place
that
you
come
at
the
end
makes
and
what
you
have
in
the
the
distance
that
you
travel.
of
the
race
out
of
12.
bank
and
the
size
of
the
hospital
when
you
finish
building.
3. There will be positive/negative If
you
can’t
keep
up
and
end
up
When
you
complete
the
all
the
If
you
do
not
keep
up
with
the
needs
values assigned to the outcomes
running
into
obstacles
you
will
die
tracks
for
all
the
cups
you
win
a
new
of
your
patients
they
will
leave
and
or
be
caught
by
the
mummy’s
cup
and
new
tracks.
This
keeps
the
find
another
hospital
and
then
you
chasing
after
you.
When
you
die
you
game
interesting
because
you
don’t
will
loose
money
and
in
time
your
have
to
go
back
to
the
start
of
the
have
to
keep
repeating
the
same
hospital
will
seize
to
exist.
However
game.
levels
and
tracks.
If
you
don’t
if
you
keep
it
is
great
condition
you
complete
them
you
have
to
keep
will
get
loads
of
patients
and
lots
of
redoing
the
same
tracks
and
this
money
to
keep
expanding
and
would
become
boring
and
tiresome.
getting
nicer.

2. 4. The desired outcome requires The
outcome
of
Temple
Run
is
to
The
outcome
of
Mario
kart
is
to
The
desired
outcome
would
be
to
effort
collect
as
many
coins
as
possible
unlock
and
place
1st
in
every
level
have
a
very
large
hospital
with
lots
and
get
further
along
the
track
so
and
world
and
in
all
hardness
that
of
happy
staff
working
there.
You
that
it
begins
to
get
faster
and
you
can
set
the
game
too.
Another
would
have
no
debt
with
the
bank
therefore
harder.
Once
you
have
a
desire
is
to
unlock
all
of
the
and
be
able
to
keep
the
hospital
large
collection
of
coins
you
are
able
characters
that
there
are
to
play
and
looking
clean
and
classy.
to
buy
different
characters
for
the
perhaps
complete
every
level
in
first
game
or
boosts
such
as
head
starts
place
whilst
being
every
character.
or
boosts
like
running
faster.
5. Player has an emotional When
you
play
the
game
you
get
When
you
play
this
game
it
makes
When
you
play
this
game
you
gain
a
attachment to the outcome
more
into
it
and
don’t
want
to
loose
you
want
to
unlock
every
track
and
attachment
to
the
hospital
and
its
because
of
the
process
that
you
have
character.
You
always
will
want
to
staff
because
them
depend
on
you
as
made
and
if
you
do
lose
you
have
to
come
first
and
beat
all
of
the
other
the
player
to
play
them.
If
you
no
start
at
the
beginning.
players.
longer
control
them
and
just
see
what
happens
then
the
game
is
destroyed.
6. Negotiable consequences for That
if
you
lose
badly
you
may
have
If
you
start
to
loose
and
not
place
in
If
you
come
to
a
brick
wall
when
real life
to
start
from
the
beginning
but
you
the
top
3
your
experience
in
the
your
hospital
becomes
to
large
for
keep
some
of
the
rewards
such
as
in
game
will
decline
because
you
will
you
to
control
every
building
and
this
game
it’s
the
coins
and
the
score
become
tiresome
and
frustrated.
aspect
this
can
be
frustrating
as
you
that
you
have
collected
in
the
game.
want
to
be
able
to
carry
on
the
game
but
you
cannot.