Richard, r n r nConsider saliency with regard to things like graphics, sound, animation, explosions. For now I 'll just say those kinds of things, the non-interactive stuff, are much easier to apprehend than gameplay, mostly because you most players can 't apprehend rules and systems just by looking at ...
I disagree that the idea of ambiguous decisions is the single most important aspect in a game. In fact, I would argue ambiguous decisions can 't even be a necessary or sufficient component of a good definition of video games. r n r nThere are entire categories of video games ...
I'm surprised to read that there is so much contention about what mechanics are. I've always understood it just to mean how the player does all the things they do in a game. Ironically, in my experience I have noticed much more disagreement/confusion albeit maybe less explicitly about what narrative ...
I don't think there is a paradox. In skill games, performing well, and improving your performance feels like winning, and for all practical purposes is winning, even if the game's end state does not reflect that directly or explicitly. I don't think its necessary to assume that a binary result ...
I think the author, at least initially, is being far too loose and dramatic with the term plagiarism. Is a best practice plagiarism Also, consider how the context in which a plagiarized element is used by someone else can change its character and dynamic completely. Do we deride the re-use ...
