First weeks
Chess
The rules of a game are also known by this term.
Mechanics
Clicking this gives you access to a quick option for linking to a new passage.
Macro
A game that allows you to customize your character or the game world has this aesthetic.
Expression
In John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, George and Lenny mention getting into some trouble in this Siskiyou County town.
Weed
This programming language is the main language we will learn in this course.
C#
A game must have one of these so players know what their goal is.
A winning condition
If your game is based around colors and sounds, it has this aesthetic.
Sensation
This is the name of the shape commonly used to represent infinity.
A lemniscate
We will use this program to make 2D assets.
Photoshop
The setting
This symbol is used to create a variable that lives across multiple passages.
$
A game built around a compelling story has this aesthetic.
Narrative
The U.S. Constitution recognizes Native American tribes as distinct governments that have this same quality as independent nations.
Sovereignty
In the ancient Egyptian game of Senet, players would throw these to determine how many spaces to move.
Sticks or bones
Tag
_ (underscore)
You're experiencing this aesthetic if you must log in often to make progress.
Submission
The primary antagonist in Horizon: Zero Dawn shares its name with this Greek god of fire also known for his crafting skills.
Hephaestus
The oldest known board game was found in this country.
Turkey
Mechanics is one part of the framework we will use to analyze games, along with these two other aspects.
This word is used when you want to check to see whether the reader made a choice earlier in the game.
if
This generic-sounding aesthetic is featured in games with immersive worlds.
Fantasy
To count the diameter of an atom using this smallest unit of length would take you 10 million times the current age of the universe.