Characteristics of Games
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Game Design and Nonfiction.
"Characteristics of Games" offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traitsincluding number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and reward/effort ratioand using these characteristics as basic points of comparison and analysis. These issues are often discussed by game players and designers but seldom written a...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Game Design and Nonfiction.
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