Elements of A Game: Gameplay

In week 3, we were assigned into groups and had a class excursion to Sunway Pyramid's arcade center to study the different kinds of games there and pick a game of our choice, featuring the 5 basic elements of a game. I was grouped together with Zu, Hussein and Andy. Then we had to prepare a presentation on the selected game for the next time we had class.

• Challenge- the element that makes it hard for players to reach the goal.
• Strategy- makes the players think and develop ways to navigate through difficult situations.
• Chance- creating a way to help give advantages to the players against the increasing difficulty.
• Choice- affects the progression and the outcome of the game.
• Luck- something that appears randomly in the game and gives players a big advantage.

Upon returning to campus after we spent a considerably fun amount of time at the arcade playing most of the games, we decided to narrow down our choices to 2 games that caught our interests most, Air Hockey and a fishing game (that after some google-ing did we find out it was) called Fishing Spirits. We decided to go with Air Hockey and did some background research on it.


Here are the slides we used for our presentation: