One of the things we constantly think about here at Gamefroot HQ is how to make good games. No not just good games but awesome games. When you’ve got a game creation tool as easy to use as Gamefroot there can be no excuse for making good games… you should be making awesome games!!
To help us make games our own games we have started to embrace “The Art of Game Design” toolkit; a set of rules / game mechanics that are easy enough for anybody to understand and apply to their game. There are 100 lens for us to learn and we’ll be posting a new one every couple of days. When we post a lens please let us know what you think by leaving a comment.
1 – The Lens of Essential Experience
To use this lens, stop thinking about your game, and start thinking about the experience of the user. Ask yourself these questions:
– What experience do I want the player to have?
– What is essential to that experience?
– How can my game capture that experience?
Definitely agree there!