{"id":14160,"date":"2025-09-17T11:44:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=14160"},"modified":"2025-09-17T21:14:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T01:14:38","slug":"question-set-week-2-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=14160","title":{"rendered":"Question Set Week 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Question Set 1<\/strong>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What Mechanics would you like to use for a game with a theme that revolves around being the size of a nanometer? Everything should be in nanometers &#8211; be in tiny moves since you are so infinitely tiny<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Who are you making games for? other people<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Who will be your play testers outside of class? Probably my family or the friends\/classmates I see most of the time<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Question Set 2<\/strong>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Can you think of a game you were able to play without referring to the rules? Yes, Uno is the first game I would think of, it pretty much is born into me I&#8217;ve played it so much, I have no memory of ever reading or being explained the rules<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How do you define what a game is? Something fun that has no real purpose in life other than to entertain really and make you problem solve and learn new ways to do stuff<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What features can make your games more intuitive? Make the theme relatable and not super niche, don&#8217;t make the player have to do a lot on each turn so it&#8217;s not too confusing<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Question Set 3<\/strong>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What was your gateway game? What do you play to introduce others to gaming? I&#8217;d Solitaire was my first game I remember seeing or perhaps Old Maid, but I think there are several categories to games and each one would have a gateway game (like card games versus board games versus videogames); I usually would play Uno with someone or Dirty Bridge, for videogames, I think Minecraft is a great gateway videogame<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What features do gateway games share? Easy gameplay, engaging and simple<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>What are the 10 beautiful mechanics and what should you aim for with your own? Well in our text they are 10 different games and the &#8220;beautiful ways&#8221; in which they make the games not feel like mechanics but as simply an experience. I&#8217;m not gonna type them all out cuz they sound weird and cuz they&#8217;re on pages 56-60 &#8211; but the way we should aim for our mechanics is to strive higher than these mechanics and make it even smoother.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>How does luck and strategy factor in to game play? Depends on the game but both are quite involved in all gameplay<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,147],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-14160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-design","category-reading-questions","tag-marked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14259,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14160\/revisions\/14259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}