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GOTW Mechanics Week
In this week, we spent most of our time focusing on the many mechanics games have. We were given the opportunity to play a variety of different games, but this week me and a few of my classmates decided we wanted to play a scuffed version of poker. We grabbed the game The Gang, which…
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Game Mechanics Blog reflection
In class we played the game “Can’t Stop”. I would say the hardest part about the game is that it heavily depends on luck, but also whoever goes first has a better advantage. The goal of the game is to get 3 game pieces to the end of the board before everyone else. Players can…
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Game Mechanics Research Paper: Dice Rolling
How do players actually interact with a game? To be able to take any action at all during a game, players have to use game mechanics. Game mechanics can be either abstract or concrete objects and are used to interact with the game world. The article, “Defining Game Mechanics”, by Miguel Sicart goes into depth…
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