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Game Objectives. Provide Challenges Set the tone of the game Affects formal game system Affects game dramatics. Consider the following:. What are some of the objectives of games you have played? What impact do these objectives have on the tone of the game?
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Game Objectives Provide Challenges Set the tone of the game Affects formal game system Affects game dramatics
Consider the following: • What are some of the objectives of games you have played? • What impact do these objectives have on the tone of the game? • Do certain genres of play lend themselves to certain objectives? • What are player-determined objectives?
Examples of Game Objectives • Clue: Be the first player to deduce who, where, and how a murder was committed.
Examples of Game Objectives • Battleship: Be the first player to sink all five of your opponent’s battleships.
Examples of Game Objectives • Connect Four: Be the first player to place four units in a contiguous line on the playing grid.
Examples of Game Objectives Chess: Checkmate your opponent’s king.
Examples of Game Objectives Super Mario Brothers: Rescue Princess Toadstool from the evil Bowser by completing all eight worlds.
Examples of Game Objectives Civilization: Conquer all other civilizations on the board.
Categories of Game Objectives (Genre) • Capture • Chase • Race • Alignment • Rescue or Escape • Forbidden Act • Construction • Exploration • Solution • Outwit • Rhythm-game
Capture Game Objective • The objective is to take or capture something of the opponent’s while avoiding being captured or killed. • Includes strategy board games like checkers and chess. • Also in this category are real-time strategy games. • The concept of capturing or killing the opponent’s forces in one ingrained in games.
Chase Game Objective • The objective of the chase game is to catch or elude an opponent. • Chase games can be structured as single-player vs game, player vs player, or unilateral competition. • Chase games can be determined by: • speed or physical dexterity • Stealth and strategy • Logic and deduction
Race Game Objective • The objective of a race game is to reach a goal – physical or conceptual – before the other players. • Examples could be a footrace, a board game like Uncle Wiggly or Parcheesi. • Race games can be determined by physical dexterity. • Race games can also be determined by a mix of strategy and chance – like Backgammon.
Alignment Game Objective • The objective in an alignment game is to arrange your game pieces in a certain spatial configuration or create conceptual alignment between categories of pieces. • Alignment games are often puzzle-like because they require “solving” spatial or organizational problems. • Determined by: • logic and calculation • Chance opportunity
Rescue or Escape Game Objective • The objective is a rescue or escape game is to get a defined unit or units to safety. • The objective is often combined with other partial-objectives.
Forbidden Act Game Objective • The objective in a forbidden act game is to get the competition to “break the rules” by laughing, talking, letting go, making wrong moves, or doing something they shouldn’t. • Not often found in digital games. • Sometimes involves stamina or flexibility.
Construction Game Objective • The object in a construction game is to build, maintain, or manage objects. • May be directly competitive or indirectly competitive. • Games with a construction objective often make use of resource management or trading as a game element.
Exploration Game Objective • The object in a exploration game is to explore game areas – usually combined with a competitive objective. • Sometimes multiple objectives such as exploration, puzzle solving, and combat intertwine to form multifaceted gameplay.
Solution Game Objective • The object in a solution game is to solve a problem or puzzle before the competition.
Outwit Game Objective • The object in a game of wits is to gain and use knowledge in a way that defeats the other players. • Sometimes “extra-game” knowledge comes into gameplay (Jeopardy or TrivialPursuit). • This type of game may provoke interesting social dynamics.
Rhythm-game (Music Game) Objective • Sometimes grouped with puzzle games because of the “rhythmically generated puzzles”. • Player interacts with a musical song • Player uses a special controller (i.e. guitar)
