In games,
however, the objective is a key element without which
the experience loses much of its structure, and our
need to work toward the objective is a measure of
our involvement in the game.
Exercise 2.3: Objectives
List ?¬? ve games, and in one sentence per game,
describe the objective in each game.
Procedures
Both descriptions also give detailed instructions on
what players can do to achieve the game objectives.
For example, in Go Fish, some of these instructions
include: ???The dealer deals ?¬? ve cards to each player,???
or ???A turn consists of asking a speci?¬? c player for a
speci?¬? c rank.??? In Quake, the description states that
???Your character can walk, run, jump, swim, shoot, and
pick up stu?¬? .??? The directions also provide a set of
controls for doing so. These controls are the method
by which the player accesses the basic procedures of
the game. If we played Go Fish on a computer, we??™d
have to create controls for dealing or asking a player
for a card of a certain rank.
Procedures, the actions or methods of play
allowed by the rules, are an important distinction
of the experiences we call games.
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