Play and Games
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The document discusses definitions of play, games, toys and puzzles. Play is defined as voluntary and intrinsically motivated activity, while a game is play with a goal. A toy is an object used during play and a puzzle has a dominant strategy. The document also discusses theories of play from Huizinga and Callois. Huizinga saw play as distinct from ordinary life, while Callois identified four categories of play: agon, alea, mimesis and ilinx. Finally, the document discusses what makes a good game, including interesting choices, understanding patterns, and achieving flow. It argues the entire game experience is important, not just individual elements.
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Play and Games
- 1. Understanding Play and Games Seth Sivak
- 2. Definitions
- 4. Definitions What is play? What is a game?
- 5. Definitions What is play? What is a game? What is a toy?
- 6. Definitions What is play? What is a game? What is a toy? What is a puzzle?
- 8. What is Play? Play: voluntary, intrinsically motivated activity
- 9. What is Play? Play: voluntary, intrinsically motivated activity Game: play with a goal
- 10. What is Play? Play: voluntary, intrinsically motivated activity Game: play with a goal Toy: interactable object used during play
- 11. What is Play? Play: voluntary, intrinsically motivated activity Game: play with a goal Toy: interactable object used during play Puzzle: a game with a dominant strategy
- 12. Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
- 13. Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga Play is free, is in fact freedom
- 14. Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga Play is free, is in fact freedom Play is not “ordinary” or “real” life
- 15. Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga Play is free, is in fact freedom Play is not “ordinary” or “real” life Play is distinct from “ordinary” life both as to locallity and duration
- 16. Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga Play is free, is in fact freedom Play is not “ordinary” or “real” life Play is distinct from “ordinary” life both as to locallity and duration Play creates order, is order. Play demands order absolute and supreme
- 17. Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga Play is free, is in fact freedom Play is not “ordinary” or “real” life Play is distinct from “ordinary” life both as to locallity and duration Play creates order, is order. Play demands order absolute and supreme Play is connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained from it
- 19. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois
- 20. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Fun: the activity is light-hearted in nature
- 21. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Fun: the activity is light-hearted in nature Separate: defined boundaries of time and space
- 22. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Fun: the activity is light-hearted in nature Separate: defined boundaries of time and space Uncertain: the outcome cannot be predicted
- 23. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Fun: the activity is light-hearted in nature Separate: defined boundaries of time and space Uncertain: the outcome cannot be predicted Non-productive: participation does not accomplish anything useful
- 24. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Fun: the activity is light-hearted in nature Separate: defined boundaries of time and space Uncertain: the outcome cannot be predicted Non-productive: participation does not accomplish anything useful Governed by rules: the activity has rules
- 25. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Fun: the activity is light-hearted in nature Separate: defined boundaries of time and space Uncertain: the outcome cannot be predicted Non-productive: participation does not accomplish anything useful Governed by rules: the activity has rules Fictitious: explicitly not real
- 26. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois
- 27. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Agon (competition)
- 28. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Agon (competition) Alea (chance)
- 29. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Agon (competition) Alea (chance) Mimesis (role-playing)
- 30. Man, Play and Games by Roger Callois Agon (competition) Alea (chance) Mimesis (role-playing) Ilinx (vertigo)
- 31. What makes a good game? http://www.half-real.net/dictionary/
- 32. What makes a good game? A series of interesting choices (Sid Meier) http://www.half-real.net/dictionary/
- 33. What makes a good game? A series of interesting choices (Sid Meier) Understanding the pattern of a game (Raph Koster) http://www.half-real.net/dictionary/
- 34. What makes a good game? A series of interesting choices (Sid Meier) Understanding the pattern of a game (Raph Koster) Ability to reach flow or total immersion in a task (Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi) http://www.half-real.net/dictionary/
- 35. What makes a good game? PROBLEM SOLVING? PATTERN RECOGNITION? What about art? Sound? Story? Controls? Balance?
- 36. What makes a good game?
- 37. What makes a good game? THE ENTIRE GAME!!!
- 38. What makes a good game? THE ENTIRE GAME!!! GAME = EXPERIENCE
- 39. Interest Inherent Interest Poetry of Presentation Psychological Proximity
- 41. Inherent Interest Break from the normal world
- 42. Inherent Interest Break from the normal world
- 43. Inherent Interest Break from the normal world
- 44. Inherent Interest Break from the normal world
- 45. Poetry of Presentation Beauty found in composition
- 46. Poetry of Presentation Beauty found in composition
- 47. Poetry of Presentation Beauty found in composition
- 48. Personal Proximity It matters to you
- 49. Personal Proximity It matters to you
- 50. Personal Proximity It matters to you
- 51. Personal Proximity It matters to you
- 52. How can you make an experience that is inherently interesting, poetically composed and personally important to the player?