Elements of a game

 This weeks reading article is all about learning how to disect and analyse a game. The article covers the component parts of a game and how they all fit together to create a game. The article i began reading was "What are the qualites of a game". This article listed a number of elements that makes up a game the elements listed were,

• Players 
• Objectives and Goals 
• Rules 
• Resources 
• Game-State 
• Information 
• Sequencing
• Player Interaction
• Theame 
• Game as System      

The purpose of this article was to show how you can take these elements to breakdown a game into differnt parts to study each element in more detail. The article also covers critical analysis and how it can be a usefull tool in order to disscuss and compare to other games on the market. 

I also watched a youtube video called "prototype your game" the video was really interestiong and coverd how two game designers break down the hole game idea process mentioned above this video was really helpfull as it helped show me how important these simple steps were to breakdown your game idea. They cover everything from the simple steps as just making the game from papper all the way to developing the game.