Repurposing Game Play Mechanics as a Technique for Designing Game-Based Virtual Worlds

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  • Walt Scacchi
چکیده

1. Overview 2. Related Research on the What and How of Repurposing Game Mechanics 3. Case Studies in Repurposing Game Mechanics 3.1 Case 1 – Producing functionally similar games 3.2 Case 2 – modding an existing game via new game play levels, characters, and play objectives 3.3 Case 3 – Replacing multi-character dialogs and adding Rashomon-style role-play 3.4 Case 4 – Recognizing resource allocation challenges with uncertainty in problem domain 3.5 Case 5 – Choosing meta-problem solving domains for game development, extension, and play 4. Comparative case analysis: The emerging technique of repurposing game play mechanics for game design 5. Conclusions 6. Acknowledgements 7. References

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تاریخ انتشار 2014