Read chapter 3 of Tracy Fullerton’s Game Design Workshop and MINDMAP the core ideas. Extra credit: Do dramatic Elements as well.
Upload a pdf of the mind map. Don’t know how to mindmap? Learn more: http://www.fastefoundation.org/publications/mind_mapping.pdf
Alternative assignment, if you’ve read about formal elements
Read Chapter 2 of A Game Design Vocabulary and mindmap/diagram it.
Read chapter 1 of Games, Design and Play and mindmap/diagram it.
Read The Four Basic Elements from Art of Game Design and mindmap/diagram it.
OR write a blog post comparing the approaches.
Leave a link to your work in the comments.
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/10/rachel-naidich-the-formal-elements-of-games-reading-mindmap/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/10/2268/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/10/assignment-1-formal-elements-of-games-mind-map-vc/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/11/cs-337g-assignment-1-a-game-design-vocabulary/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/11/assignment-1/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/12/assignment1-mind-map/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/12/formal-elements-of-games-mindmap/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/12/assignment-1-mind-map-of-formal-elements/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/13/assignment-1-formal-elements/
Formal Elements: https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/13/formal-elements-of-games-mindmap-cynthia-jia/
Verbs and Objects: https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/13/verbs-objects-mindmap-by-cynthia/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/19/formal-elements-dramatic-elements/
Formal Elements & Dramatic Elements https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/19/formal-elements-dramatic-elements/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/20/formal-elements-mind-map-2/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/02/16/mindmap-verbs-objects-a-game-design-vocabulary/
https://mechanicsofmagic.com/2022/01/31/mind-map-formal-elements-of-games/