GAME 3400 Level Design - Indirect Control
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The document discusses indirect control in game design, which refers to techniques used to guide players through a game without them realizing, including setting up challenges and feedback. It notes the designer's goal is to anticipate player decisions and provide satisfying responses. Indirect control methods establish implicit or explicit goals, use interfaces, visual cues, and non-visual feedback to teach and challenge players in a balanced way so they do not feel lost or frustrated. Direct control breaks immersion and should be avoided.
GAME 3400 Level Design - Indirect Control
- 1. Level Design Indirect Control – Oct. 9, 2012 Fall 2012 Seth Sivak
- 2. Summary Introduction Constraints Challenges vs. Choices Methods of Indirect Control Methods of Direct Control
- 3. Every decision a player makes is based off of indirect control from the designer. The goal of the designer is to know every decision a player will faced and provide feedback to give the player what they want.
- 4. What is Indirect Control? FEEDBACK
- 5. Indirect Control Game Design Techniques to: Setup the player Guide the player Teach the player Challenge the player Help the player … without the player noticing
- 6. Constraints Formal Constraints (Challenges) What should the player do? What challenges await the player? Framework for player Material Constraints (Choices) What can the player do? How can the player win? Means for the player
- 7. Choices vs. Challenges Choices > Challenges =Lost Challenges > Choices =Frustrated Challenges ~ Choices =Fun
- 10. Indirect Control
- 11. Indirect Control
- 12. Indirect Control
- 13. Indirect Control
- 14. Indirect Control Help Me!
- 15. Indirect Control
- 16. Indirect Control
- 17. Methods of Indirect Control Implicit Goals (prior knowledge) Explicit Goals (roleplaying) Interface Visual Orientation (wayfinding) Non-Visual Feedback
- 18. Implicit Goals
- 19. Implicit Goals Clear challenge for the player Inherent aspiration to achieve the goal Have the skills to complete the challenge
- 20. Explicit Goals
- 21. Interface
- 22. Semiotics
- 23. Wayfinding
- 25. Methods of Direct Control Inconsistencies within the worl Incongruous rule enforcement Out of fiction Hints/Cheats/Solutions