the four essential components of a game, according to my Intro to Game Development class

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A short back story
How the player will win
Strategy
Genre

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A game is some combination of the following indivisable elements:

  • skeleton
  • red key
  • score thing
  • magic door

If you see something that looks like a videogame but isn’t, you should notify the Police.

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‘How the player will win’ rephrased as ‘what is the goal of the player’ is the first step to teaching someone how to play a game, and any rules explanation that leaves that for the end is obviously terrible

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An introduction to just needing to tighten up the graphics on level three

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the best game genre is “other”

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sure. the assumption that there needs to be a win state and the redundancy with “Strategy” is what got to me with that one

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i’ve decided my final project for this class will be the game described in @Khan’s legendary parody thread, “Build me a video game salmon”

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this class teaches pretty much nothing besides how to use game maker, but it’s a prerequisite for the class on Unity because of course it is

my first assignment was an hour spent remaking the introduction/example project originally written for GM8 (which i first did when i was eight), and six hours spent trying to get GM:Studio to run. we had two weeks allocated to do this.

good class

fuck yoyogames

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This seems like a p. good game jam pitch.

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  • Action
  • Strategy
  • Adventure
  • Aesthetic
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This thread owns

3x Video
1x Game
Is the old family recipe

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the four essential components don’t even make an acronym

Genre
Aesthetics
Mechanics
Edginess

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My post was actually serious! It’s a quasiformed idea I’ve been kicking around for a while.

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disappointed G isn’t “Gameplay” for maximum trolling

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Trend
Corporate Attitude
Stoner
True Doom Murder Heads

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Sword’s
Gun’s
Slamming with the best
Jamming with the rest

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Friction
Hangoutitude
Lonely game
Choom

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If you rearrange the original four it can be SHAG, or GASH, not bad IMO

Anyway, everyone knows that what a game needs is:

GRAphics
SOund
CONtrol
FUnfactor
Challenge

GRASOCONFUC

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Games just need the four M’s:

Multipliers
Multiball
Multiplayer
Music

Really, you should just make and submit a pinball table.

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Location
Location
Location
Potion

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