Kapp Notes

MARCH 7, 2011

Mission-based levels serve several purposes within the design of a game. One purpose is to keep the game space manageable. Early level.simple and easy.but wait, it gets harder. Developing a game in which a player wanders through one vast level accomplishing hundreds of objectives and interacting with dozens of non-player characters is a daunting programming task and is intimidating for the player.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 8, 2011

Playing a game that is too difficult is not fun. Playing a game that is too easy is not fun either. Therefore, the quandary for game developers is to create a game that is neither too hard nor too easy. But when developing a game for a broad audience of unknown skill sets, the task becomes even more daunting. How do you create a game that appropriately challenges players at multiple levels of expertise and experience?

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 11, 2011

At its simplest form, a game is just a set of defined rules. There are rules indicating the maximum number of players who can play a game, rules describing how to score points, rules indicating what is allowed in the game and, in the case of digital games, rules that apply to writing the code that makes the video game character jump. Without rules, games would not exist.

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Kapp Notes

MARCH 10, 2011

Join Tony O’Driscoll and I as we up to share our ideas and thoughts about immersive e-learning environments. In a free, limited-seat virtual event March 30 at 11 a.m. EST in VenueGen. Online registration will open next week, and the 40 virtual seats will be filled on a first-come, first-serve basis. Those who would like to receive an email alert when registration opens can sign up here.

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