#game 210

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How to find game rules...

- Work backwards

- What makes you lose the game?

- Identify interactive objects and how they are interactive

- Identify non-interactive objects and what they do

- Limitations become the rules, switch to what you can do instead of what you can't

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Game Component: Sound

- Music

- Sound Effects

- Voices

- Ambient sounds

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Game Component: Interface

- Navigation (menus)

- Point of view

- Actor control

- Peripherals

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Game Component: Objectives

- Final objective

- Narrative objectives

- Gameplay objectives

- Freedom

- Meta objectives

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Game Component: Actors

- Player Characters (PCs)

- Non Player Characters (NPCs)

- Tools

- Non-controllable tools

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Game Component: Mechanics

- Either user-controlled or system-controlled

- Movement (run, jump, fight, etc.)

- Gravity, physics

- Strategy, tactics

- Camera control

- Aiming

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Game Component: Aesthetics

- Color palette

- Setting, environment

- Style

- # of dimensions

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Game Components

- Aesthetics

- Mechanics

- Actors

- Objectives

- Interface

- Sound

- Meta