Notes by Lex

A Character Web Schell (2015) (pg. 356-357) is a story writing tool for creating strong character relationships. You simply write down what each character thinks …

A tool brought from the world of social psychology by Katherine Isbister, in which you draw a diagram with 2 axes: friendliness and dominance and …

Discussed by Schell and coined by Henry Jenkins, refers to a world that can be "entered" through many different types of media Schell (2015) (pg …

A game designer can exert indirect control of the player through constraints, goals, visual interfaces, game characters; and sound and music. An important part of …

An integer is a 32-bit (4-byte) encoding of a number.

It can be signed - which means one bit keeps track of whether it's negative or …

One of the two methods of story telling in games. The game isn't designed with a specific story, but a unique one is generated each …

An Interest Curve refers to the guest's interest over time during an experience (game, book, movie etc). The ideal interest curve usually involves an initial …

Schell says that the goal of a game interface is to "make players feel in control of their experience." ¹

We achieve this with immediate …

Coroutines in Lua are related to Generators (Python). They allow a function to be written to return intermittantly using the yield() function call on the …

A game balancing trick that Schell attributes to design Brian Reynolds (who in term attributes to Sid Meier): when tuning values to balance a game …