Game Elements

What is Game Elements?

What are the Qualities of a good game?

The first thing we must do in order to know what a good game looks like, is separate the qualities that may have been applied to the game. There are some main themes that are used in almost all the games and that is that they have rules, conflict, goals, decision making and uncertain outcomes.

What are Atomic Elements of Games?

Well it may have a different meaning or answer depending on who you ask but it is some parts of the game that when you really take a look at it you can see the themes. For example these are something you may consider when looking at the atoms.

• Players
• Objective
• Rules
• Resources and Resource Management
• Game State
• Information
• Sequencing
• Player Interaction
• Theme(Backstory)
• Games as System

What are Critical analysis?

I know whenever you see critical analysis you thinking that you have to look through somebody work you would say that "It is nice" or you might give it a rating or talk about the bugs and problems. It does not mean trying to find something wrong in the work, you have to give feedback that the person can work off of. You must talk and compare it to other games to see or know what is missing or what could be added to help improve the game. This way you can get your ideas across to make it better and the developer knows where he went wrong and is able to improve or add more that can help benefit you both. If you get stuck try to ask yourself these kind of questions during your Critical Analysis.

• What challenges did the player face?
• What actions do the players overcome?
• Do players affect each other and have purpose?
• Is the game worth playing again?

Players

I think that players are very important to a game because you must really consider how the game will be able to function with a number of players. The reason why players is so important when planning is the amount of players in the game can be the difference between how hard the game is as well as how quickly the game finishes. When making a game make sure that it is suitable for the game map and the game does not break or taken advantage of. The things that you should think about when making a game regarding players would be.

• Are the players even?
• Can players join or leave during the game? 
• How does this effect the play?
• How many players does the game support?
• Must is be an exact number to complete?

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Objective

When making a game the most important thing that every game needs is an objective because without it there is no meaning and reason to do it. The objective can be used in a lot of different ways because in the game it can be used to make people achieve the goal or follow the story line. The thing that you should think about when planning an objective would be.

• What is the objective of the game?
• What are players trying to do?
• Does your objectives benefit what comes next?

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When it comes to making a game there are a lot of things are variables that you should really plan for but there is a book that has been proven to help challenge the game designers mind and help with brainstorming and help sharpen your game design skills

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