Elements of Game Design
What do feedback loops do?
Let the user know how they are doing
This teaching attitude makes no attempt at making the material interesting or fun.
First Teaching Attitude
"A ____ is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome."
game
Status is a type of ______.
motivator
What one element of game design is not defined as a motivator?
Imaginary Design
Which teaching attitude would involve the teacher presenting the material in an enlightening and challenging way at the same time?
Third Teaching Attitude
The place where the intrinsic and extrinsic motivators take place?
Imaginary World
Which teaching attitude uses challenges to engage students?
The third teaching attitude
What is imposed by a set of rules that all player(s) agree to?
Conflicts and Choices
The sugarcoating attitude describes which teaching attitude?
The second teaching attitude
"The state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience itself is so enjoyable that people will do it even at great cost, for the sheer sake of doing it"
Flow
"The secret to creating a state of flow is creating a(n) ______ _______."
appropriate challenge
What are the five elements of game design?
Play and Challenges, Conflicts and Choices, Feedback Loops, Goals and Rewards, Imaginary World
What elements are commonly omitted from the equation in attempts to 'gamify' in real life?
Play + Challenges + Rewards + Goals = Game
Play + Challenges
"While ____ may indicate your standing relative to others, it can also indicate your standing relative to your own personal best"
Status
What happens when the flow experience is too trivial and unchallenging?
Irritation, ignored, bored, not engaged
All but ____ and ____ are naturally occurring parts of intrinsic motivation.
goals, rewards
autonomy, mastery, purpose
“You need clear goals that fit into a hierarchy, with little goals that build toward more meaningful, higher-level goals.”
In the chart on page 162 it describes flow on a xy-axis. What are the x and y variables on a graph that describe flow?
Challenge and boredom