Glossary
AAA AAA, or “triple-A” games are games designed by large studios with large budgets.
Absorption A state of player engagement to the extent that a game captures a player’s complete attention.
Abstraction There are three forms of abstraction in games. Abstraction applies when elements in the game don’t refer to anything in the world (for example, Go). Abstraction can also refer to games that represent real-world activities, such as how the game Pong represents tennis. Finally, there is the abstraction in which a systems model is created to represent a real-world phenomenon, such as the board game Pandemic’s abstraction of the spread of diseases. Abstraction always involves some form of reinterpretation, simplification, and modeling.
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