Commonly Used Challenges

• Physical Coordination Challenges

• Logic and Mathematical Challenges

• Races and Time Pressure

• Factual Knowledge Challenges

• Memory Challenges

• Pattern Recognition Challenges

• Exploration Challenges

• Conflict

• Economic Challenges

Physical Coordination Challenges

• SPEED AND REACTION TIME

• http://www.wimp.com/niceskill/

• http://youtu.be/caiIamHIzBY?t=51s

Physical Coordination Challenges

• ACCURACY AND PRECISION

• http://youtu.be/GWIPn_BvrPE?t=16m20s

• http://youtu.be/pFDS2oFmugs?t=10m32s

Physical Coordination Challenges

• INTUITIVE UNDERSTANDING OF PHYSICS

• http://youtu.be/7-U8ARAVx-s?t=1m15s

• http://youtu.be/yf9qcI2LXVw?t=18s

Physical Coordination Challenges

• TIMING AND RHYTHM

Logic and Mathematical Challenges

• FORMAL LOGIC PUZZLES

• TRIAL AND ERROR

• http://youtu.be/olfLaenSQzY?t=22s

• MATHEMATICAL CHALLENGES

Races and Time Pressure

• Finish First

• Time constraint used to increase stress

• http://youtu.be/3wAt7jgnGwI?t=23m22s

Factual Knowledge Challenges

• Trivia and quiz games

• It would be unfair for the player to come up with real world facts for other genre

Memory Challenges

• Test the player’s ability to recall things that she has seen or heard in the game.

• Pattern Recognition Challenges

• Test the player’s ability to spot visible or audible patterns or change in pattern and behavior

Exploration Challenges

• SPATIAL AWARENESS CHALLENGES

• requires the player to navigate around an unfamiliar and complicated space.

• http://youtu.be/CqsU5nWLguU?t=1m38s

Exploration Challenges

• LOCKED DOORS• http://

youtu.be/IX1N5d7-0SI?t=24m16s

Exploration Challenges

• TRAPS

Exploration Challenges

• MAZES

• every place looks alike

• ILLOGICAL SPACES

• do not relate to each other in a way that the player might reasonably expect

Exploration Challenges

• TELEPORTERS • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxVh8QASo40

Exploration Challenges

• FINDING HIDDEN OBJECTS

• Easter eggs• http://

youtu.be/VnwKTQZtQv0?t=6m15s

Conflict

Strategy

Tactics Logistics

Stealth

Economic Challenges

ACCUMULATING RESOURCES

ACHIEVING BALANCE

CARING FOR LIVING THINGS

Actions• Unstructured play

• Actions for creation and self-expression

• Actions for socialization

• Actions to participate in the story

• Actions to control the game software

Unstructured play

• Fun actions that don’t address challenges

Actions for creation and self-expression

• Customization

• There are some constraints

• http://youtu.be/5a0gOK2zJiU?t=1m40s

• http://youtu.be/j86he-H_wPA?t=1m

Actions for socialization

• Communication with other players

Actions to participate in the story

• Interactive Dialog

• Interactive NPC

Actions to control the game software

• Pause

• Resume

• Save

• Level of difficulty

• Volume control

Reasons for Saving a Game

• Allowing the player to leave the game and return to it later.

• Letting the player recover from disastrous mistakes.

• Encouraging the player to explore alternate strategies.

Consequences for Immersion and Storytelling

• outside the game world which harms the player’s immersion

• the act of saving destroys the illusion

• the moment you allow a player to repeat the past, you acknowledge the unreality of the game world

• the arguments for saving outweigh these disadvantages

Ways of Saving a Game

• PASSWORDS

• SAVE TO A FILE OR SAVE SLOT

• QUICK-SAVE

• AUTOMATIC SAVE AND CHECKPOINTS

• Least harmful to immersion