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Casual Game Design
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Casual Game Design

by Gregory Trefry
January 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
9h 6m
English
CRC Press
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Creative Construction
Games with building at their core provide a different sort of expressive play than
you might find in more tightly bound game systems. With a looser system, you
open up the possibilities for the player to expressively solve problems.
In his essay The Heresy of the Zone Defense, art and cultural critic Dave
Hickey bemoans the use of zone defense in basketball. As Hickey sees it, zone
defense limits improvisation and creativity in basketball. He uses the example
of Julius Irving’s up and under layup in the 1980s NBA finals game between the
Seventy-Sixers and the Lakers. Julius Irving drives in from the right ...
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