Sketchnote of the reading:
Chapter Exercises:
1) Let’s look at Minecraft. Players are, well, the players. Their actions include breaking blocks, placing blocks, or interacting with unique objects (such as crafting tables). The rules govern things like the player’s health bar, the behavior of some objects (i.e., fire spread, mobs), and how players gain XP. Objects range from blocks, weapons, armor, and unique blocks like crafting tables, anvils, and enchanting tables. The play space is randomly generated each time a new game is created. It’s meant to mimic a world with many different biomes.
2) Let’s take basketball and tennis. In basketball, you’re allowed free throws that the other team isn’t allowed to block. If you allowed this in tennis with serves, I think there would be a lot more pressure to make the other player cheat so you could get a free serve, and thus a free point. However, this wouldn’t work very well because basketball scoring accounts for free throws. “Free throws” in tennis would upset the balance of the scoring system, since it’s done by winning individual games (it only takes 4 points to win a game).
3) As a little kid, I often played tic-tac-toe with my cousin during family reunions. I’ve included an annotated drawing of a selected game state of tic-tac-toe.
4) For this last question, I played Pokémon Scarlet by myself and watched my boyfriend play Minecraft. While I took log notes, I summarized them in the pictures below.
