Game Design as Explained by Super Mario Bros.

A response to A Game Design Vocabulary by Anna Anthropy and Naomi Clark chapters…

Thoughts on Anna Anthropy and Naomi Clark’s A Game Design Vocabulary

These readings were slightly interesting. One of the things that caught my attention was that they said that videogames are a topic in need of its own specific vocabulary of game design. She said that currently…

Response to “A Game Design Vocabulary”

I agree with the authors’ argument in the first chapter that contemporary games often overexplain instructions or otherwise don’t allow the player to learn the controls naturally through gameplay. I was immediately reminded of Braid and the long line of signs that expect the player to…

A Game Design Vocabulary

In the excerpts of A Game Design Vocabulary by Ana Anthropy and Naomi Clark, I was extremely interested in the use of verb and sentence structure analogy to explain the necessary components for video game design. Rules are created for a game to function, and verbs are created so the…

Bogost final chapters

The work chapter is very interesting. I honestly had no idea where he was going with it at first, and once you get into it, it is very complex. The difference between constative and performative seems very knit-picky when you get down to it, but in the examples of the games there is a very…

I Have No Words & I Must Describe Something

When someone asks me what a new game is like, odds are the first thing I’ll tell…

A Game Design

I think the concepts explored within this piece are really interesting and things I had honestly never thought about. Especially in the language portion. I think it is so crazy that we have never thought to use words we already know, like noun and verb, and use them for other similar topics. That…