{"id":250,"date":"2020-10-28T21:02:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T21:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/?page_id=250"},"modified":"2020-12-11T14:00:21","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T14:00:21","slug":"game-design-vocabulary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/gamedesign2020\/game-design-vocabulary\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Design Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before we start, have an open discussion with your team and decide if you want to keep the team alive or dissolve it. Disbanded teams will be reshuffled into new teams by me according to skill balance. <\/em>
\nYou don’t need a full consensus, up to one person per team can leave (or make themselves available to join another team)<\/em><\/p>\n

Some terms to discuss in class in relationship to multiplayer games. This is also an initial braintorm.<\/p>\n

Agency<\/h1>\n

Most of these unique features of the gaming situation (or cyberdrama or interactive literature\u2026) relate to the concept of agency, popularized by media theorist Janet Murray.<\/p>\n

Agency: the satisfying power to take meaningful action and see the results of our decisions and choices<\/strong><\/p>\n

Murray sees immersion and agency as central elements for the enjoyment of games.<\/p>\n

Every expressive medium has its own unique patterns of desire; its own way of giving pleasure, of creating beauty, of capturing what we feel to be true about life; its own aesthetic.
\nJanet Murray \u2013 Hamlet on the Holodeck 1997<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The issue of agency will come up frequently while discussing story-based and art\/arty games.<\/p>\n

Can there be a game without agency?<\/em><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s examine 3 extreme cases: The Graveyard by Tale of Tales, a Call of Duty \u201cpacifist speedrun\u201d, and Progress Quest.<\/p>\n