Clockwork Game Design

INDEX

abstract games 58

accidental anti-forms 15–16

agency 116

analysis 84–94

anatomy 31–2

Angry Birds 75

asymmetry 117

Auro: A Monster-Bumping Adventure 124, 129–31

base value 11–12

basketball 47–8, 49

binary goal 8

board games 14, 15, 48, 59, 62, 71, 109, 115–16

boil down/boil off 129–30

boredom 14–15

breakdown 13

budget 100

card games 9, 15, 99, 119–20

causal chain 114

chaos 26, 82

charts 84–8

chess 11, 13, 17, 22–3, 40, 45, 53–4, 71, 82, 83, 114

chores 15–16, 108–10

Civilization 41, 49, 128

clockwork systems 31, 32, 34, 46–7, 107, 124, 132

complexity 21–3, 35–6, 106, 119–20

componential complexity 21–2

Concentration 9

connections map 93–4

construction 69–70

content 35–6, 57–8, 119

contest 9–10

Cook, Dan 3

core action 37

core mechanism