Game Design is the practice of building and designing games using rules, choices, and structures to create meaning.

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Table of contents

• Activity Centric Controls
• Baker-Boss Principle
• Bernard Suits Definition of a Game
• Challenging or Approachable, Choose Two
• Cognitive Load
• Context in Game Design
• Descriptive Meaningful Play
• Evaluative Meaningful Play
• Fictional Positioning
• Game Design Exercise - Clarity
• Game Design Exercise - Die vs Die
• Game Design Exercise - Tic Tac Toe
• Impression of Size
• Natural Mapping in Game Design
• Perfect and Imperfect Information
• The Gambler's Fallacy