Characteristics of Games

Understanding games - whether computer games, card games, board games, or sports - by analyzing certain common traits. Characteristics of Games offers a new way to understand games: by focusing on certain traits - including number of players, rules, degrees of luck and skill needed, and reward/effort ratio - and using these characteristics as basic points of comparison and analysis. These issues are often discussed by game players and designers but seldom written about in any formal way... Voir plus