Game Art and Design Unit 3 Lesson 2 Objectives

1. Game Art and DesignUnit 3 Lesson 2Objectives

2. Big Idea Knowledge of the basic skills and components of any field makes one uniquely prepared to perform at a high level in that area.

3. Game Objectives

4. Game Objectives • A game objective is what a player is trying to achieve in order to win. • Consider these questions • What are some of the objectives of games you have played? • What are the players trying to do? • How do you win? • These are questions a designer asks about a game objective.

5. Game Objectives Examples • Clue: Be the first player to deduce who, where, and how a murder was committed

6. Game Objectives Examples • Battleship: Be the first player to sink all five of your opponent’s battleships

7. Game Objectives Examples • Connect Four: Be the first player to place four units in a contiguous line on the playing grid

8. Game Objectives Examples Chess: Checkmate your opponent’s king (cannot move without being captured)

9. Game Objectives Examples Super Mario Brothers: Rescue Princess Toadstool from the evil Bowser by completing all eight worlds

10. Game Objectives Examples Civilization: Conquer all other civilizations on the board

11. Game Objective Categories • Capture • Chase • Race • Alignment • Rescue or Escape • Forbidden Act • Construction • Exploration • Solution • Outwit

12. Game Objective: Capture • Take or capture something of the opponent’s while avoiding being captured or killed. • Includes games like checkers and chess. • Also in this category are real-time strategy games. • The concept of capturing (killing) the opponent’s forces in very common in games.

13. Game Objective: Capture • Example includes Quake, SOCOM II, and WarCraft.

14. Game Objective: Chase • 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

15. Game Objective: Chase • Examples include Fox & Geese, Assassin, and tag

16. Game Objective: Race • Reach a goal – physical or conceptual – before the other players. • Examples could be a footrace, a board game like Uncle Wiggly or Parcheesi. • Can be determined by physical dexterity. • Can also be determined by a mix of strategy and chance – like Backgammon.

17. Game Objective: Race • Examples include Backgammon, Gran Turismo, and Sorry

18. Game Objective: Alignment • Arrange game pieces in a certain configuration or create conceptual alignment between categories of pieces. • Often puzzle-like because they require “solving” spatial or organizational problems. • Determined by: • Logic and calculation • Chance opportunity

19. Game Objective: Alignment • Examples include Tic-Tac-Toe, Bejeweled, Solitaire, Connect Four, and Tetris

20. Game Objective Rescue • 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.

21. Game Objective Rescue • Examples include Super Mario Brothers, Prince of Persia, and Emergency Rescue.

22. Game Objective: Forbidden Act • 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.

23. Game Objective: Forbidden Act • Examples include Twister, Ker Plunk, Pick up Sticks, and Operation

24. Game Objective: Construction • 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.

25. Game Objective: Construction • Examples include Civilization, SimCity, and Mouse Trap

26. Game Objective: Exploration • The object in an 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.

27. Game Objective: Exploration • Examples include Zelda and EverQuest

28. Game Objective: Solution • The object in a solution game is to solve a problem or puzzle before the competition.

29. Game Objective: Solution • Examples include Sudoku and Clue

30. Game Objective: Outwit • 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.

31. Game Objective: Outwit • Examples include Trivial Pursuit, Jeopardy, and Survivor.

32. Big Idea Knowledge of the basic skills and components of any field makes one uniquely prepared to perform at a high level in that area.

33. Game Art and DesignUnit 3 Lesson 2ObjectivesImagesstudent work, photos by Phyllis Jones, and clipart