{"id":1033,"date":"2025-02-11T04:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/?page_id=1033"},"modified":"2025-04-08T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T12:08:05","slug":"puzzle-design-paper-prototype","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/puzzle-design-paper-prototype\/","title":{"rendered":"Puzzle Design (Paper prototyping)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following exercises are taken from the book The Rules We Break by Eric Zimmerman<\/a><\/p>\n

Exercise 1<\/h2>\n

Paper Prototyping Sheet for Get Out!<\/strong>
\nhttps:\/\/theruleswebreak.com\/resources\/gamesheets\/RulesWeBreak_Sheets_GetOut.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Design a puzzle using only Ute (the protagonist), the grid, the starting point, the exit and any amount of obstacle blocks.<\/p>\n

– this kind of puzzle has a correct answer that you are first designing and then “hiding”.<\/p>\n

– you can add “expert” goals, ways to solve the puzzle in less than a certain number of moves<\/p>\n

– think about the aha! moment. When solving puzzles you often experience an epiphany that makes you look at the problem and the system differently.<\/p>\n

Connect these nine points with a pen by four (or fewer) straight lines without lifting the pen or retracing any lines.<\/em><\/p>\n

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That’s where the phrase “thinking outside the box” comes from.<\/p>\n

– Does the level use the space in an interesting way<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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Exercise 2<\/h2>\n

Brainstorming new Game Elements.
\n-What could they do?
\n-How can describe the new rules in the sheet as precisely as possible? In a way a player can follow them unsupervised.
\n-Keep the rules as simple as possible, make sure you exhaust all the possibilities before you move to more intricate mechanics.
\n-Think about the new elements can be combined to produce more complexity<\/p>\n

Exercise 3<\/h2>\n

Select 1 or 2 special element and create 3 levels leverage them.<\/p>\n

-The first should be a “tutorial” that explains the new element(s)
\n-number each puzzle so it’s clear in what order they should be played
\n-make sure the players can “restart” the levels: if things can be move, mark the starting positions.<\/p>\n

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The following exercises are taken from the book The Rules We Break by Eric Zimmerman Exercise 1 Paper Prototyping Sheet for Get Out! https:\/\/theruleswebreak.com\/resources\/gamesheets\/RulesWeBreak_Sheets_GetOut.pdf Design a puzzle using only Ute (the protagonist), the grid, the starting point, the exit and any amount of obstacle blocks. – this kind of puzzle has a correct answer that … Continue reading “Puzzle Design (Paper prototyping)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1033","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048,"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1033\/revisions\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycours.es\/egd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}