Basics of Game Design

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work as planned. e programmers would no doubt moan in agony

if they had to write individual code for the thousands of items that

can appear in an MMORPG, for example, but if those thousands of

items are reduced to a hundred groups of related items that behave

similarly, their task of writing the code becomes much easier. It is

up to the designers to explain to programmers understand how the

items are grouped by functionality. Likewise, they have to be able

to describe the physical appearance of items as they appear in the

inventory and on the playeld for the art team and provide visual

references whenever possible to inspire ...