Sunday, February 20, 2011

Board game decomposition

I tried figuring out the elements of boardgames. Hopefully it will be useful in future design decisions.
Source of inspation: Decoupling Aspects in Board Games Modeling


Logic:
This is the core of the game.
Agents:
Users of the game. May be humans or computers.
Representation:
How the game is presented to the user. Possibly with figures cards and tokens. Usually expresses the game logic, making it reasonable for the user.


States:
The conditions of the game at each turn.
Behaviors:
Transitions from state to state.
Rules:
Static laws producing the behaviors in the game.


Administrive agents:
Upholder of the rules of a game. Like the bank in monopoly.
Players:
Players playing the game.

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