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gd2000 Notes: 09-04 Welcome

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First, attendance code on Inkfish.

Game Design
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Game - A voluntary, structured play activity that players do for fun.

Design - Intentionally made decisions about how something should be.

Design
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We need to intentionally make decisions. What decisions?

Kind of game?

  • Standard deck card game?
    • Is it poker?
  • Board game
  • Custom deck card game?
    • Fixed decks?
  • Physical game?
    • Games vs sports?

Each decision is also a classification. And either way to look at it will be fuzzy around the edges, but still useful.

Questions:

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