Digital Gam Lab

The most important thing about the game development is before design a game a designer has to play different games to understand the basic mechanics which are helpful to the designer. It was an excellent experience to play some new games with the class partner and then try to find out the mechanics behind those games. This helps a designer to learn the definition and the implementation in the new design and development of the game. I have played the following five games with Abigal during the lab session:

1. This is the only level: The goal of the game is to finish a level and move forward to the next level.
2. Jurassic Heart: This is a dating sim. The mechanic behind this game to click on a decision as the story moves forward. This the way of expressing love through textual representation. The user has to click on the options and on those selection the story normally ends or progress throughout out the game.
3. You Have to Burn the Rope: The goal is to burn the rope to kill a boss to finish the game. The mechanics behind the game is starts with to move a player with arrow keys and the player has to read the text, those texts are working as a guidance to the player in the game. Also, player has to use the torch to burn the rope for that he/she has to jump on the walls. This was the simple game with the combination of text and video which are helpful for the player.
4. Dys4ia: The game is about the hormone replacement therapy and gender identity disorder which translates the experiences of the game designer. The mechanics behind the game is that time constraint from moving one screen to the another screen which is limited. It has the four levels which tells a story(narrative) about there experiences thought her life with lots of emotions in them.
5. Qwop: This was the hardest game to figure out how to move an athlete who is the runner trying to run a race. This was the frustrating game for me because we have a short amount of time and it was required a lot of amount of patience throughout the entire game. Regarding the mechanics we have to use letters O for foot, P and W for moving the legs simultaneously. I have tried so many times with these keys, but the player was keep falling down. Therefore, in my opinion this is not easiest game to play.

From this list the most interesting game that I found out was "This is the only Level". First, game mechanics of this game is very simple by using simple visual through geometric shapes like squad, rectangle, circle and soon. Also, design is same except the color keep changes in each stage. Second, throughout the game there are arrow keys used to go reverse and forward,  and also the mouse and shift key also required for some stages. Third, the main goal of the game is to take an elephant to the next stage without falling him on the blue color of spikes. Third, there are no penalties throughout the game suppose if a player drop an elephant on the spike. Finally, the only hard part of the game is to figure out which key is going to be use for the each stage, but by trial and error one can figure out easily to move forward. Therefore, this is the most interesting game to play.

Refference

Play this one!: http://armorgames.com/play/4309/this-is-the-only-level

Work Cited

Brendan, G. (2013, November 11). This is the Only Level Title. Retrieved from http://beerandjoysticks.com/this-is-the-only-level/#axzz3FNsf5YEW