Idea of “tightening” or “loosening” game controls to become achieve what feels intuitive & natural. Exploratory simulation games have looser controls on purpose to feel more exploratory and to sometimes focus on the narrative, where action games demand tighter controls to focus on player’s ability to skillfully complete a challenge. Gives feelings of competency and autonomy …
An absolute leaderboard only shows the top scores of users in a system.
A game technique where the action of one player, has a rub off positive effect on another player by virtue of being around this player or in it’s energy field. This can generate additional points, boosters in terms of skills or weapons allowed in the game. In an enterprise setting, having a team benefit based …
Gamification is the application of typical elements of game playing (e.g., point scoring, competition with others, rules of play) to other areas of activity, typically as a technique to encourage engagement with a product or service.
Boosters are upgrades inside (usually game) systems that allow a user to either move quicker, have additional power or skip forward through barriers in the system. Most of the time these boosters are use to keep individuals motivated and encourage them to continue through the system. For example in physical world, a Monday morning booster …
Badges and trophies are virtual identifiers for users who accomplish certain tasks or set certain preferences within the system.
Games like Minecraft let players create their own environment and build new structures with the building blocks provided by the game designers. It’s free-flowing structure has sparked a lot of creativity and also players deciding to educate other players in eve new use of the source material. Games like Sim City let you build up …
An easter egg is an intentional inside joke, hidden message, or feature in an interactive work such as a computer program, video game or DVD menu screen. The name has been said to evoke the idea of a traditional Easter egg hunt.[1]
Are opposite of boosters, they level set players in the system to be easier to compete against and also provides an additional level of challenge.