Clickability - Revision history

Staffan Björk at 08:05, 8 August 2015

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Staffan Björk at 09:24, 4 August 2011

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Staffan Björk at 12:35, 22 May 2011

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Staffan Björk at 19:17, 21 May 2011

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Staffan Björk at 19:12, 21 May 2011

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Staffan Björk: /* Potentially Conflicting With */

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‎Potentially Conflicting With

Staffan Björk: /* References */

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‎References

Staffan Björk at 18:43, 21 May 2011

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Staffan Björk at 18:35, 21 May 2011

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Staffan Björk at 18:26, 21 May 2011

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 == Consequences ==
-[[Clickability]] not only motivates players to click on objects while gaming, it can let them discover and try to maintain [[Rhythm-Based Actions]] and thereby achieve [[Sensory-Motoric Engrossment]]. Although not enough to make [[Pottering]] a viable activity in games on its own, providing [[Clickability]] can be one way of supporting the activity since it works against gamers feeling that they are [[Grinding]]. Having [[Clickability]] on the important parts of game environments can make ''exploratory actions''<ref name="Linderoth"/> easy or trivial to achieve, and thereby remove one learning requirement that may otherwise be need to achieve [[Game Mastery]].
+[[Clickability]] not only motivates players to click on objects while gaming, it can let them discover and try to maintain [[Rhythm-Based Actions]] and thereby achieve [[Sensory-Motoric Engrossment]]. Although not enough to make [[Pottering]] a viable activity in games on its own, providing [[Clickability]] can be one way of supporting the activity since it works against gamers feeling that they are [[Grinding]]. Having [[Clickability]] on the important parts of game environments can make ''exploratory actions''<ref name="Linderoth"/> easy or trivial to achieve, and thereby remove one learning requirement that may otherwise be need to achieve [[Gameplay Mastery]].
 When [[Clickability]] is achieved through encouraging gamers to use their [[Focus Loci]] this changes how they relate to these. In contrast, [[Button Bashing]] can emerge as an effect of providing [[Clickability]]  by creating strong feedback loops between presses on physical buttons and events in the game.
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 [[Focus Loci]],
 [[Game Items]],
-[[Game Mastery]],
+[[Gameplay Mastery]],
 [[God Fingers]],
 [[Pottering]]

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 === Interface Aspects ===
-Unless the [[Clickability]] is intended to be achieved in relation to physical buttons on the game interface, a [[Focus Loci]] needs to do the actual clicking in the game environment.
+Unless the [[Clickability]] is intended to be achieved in relation to physical buttons on the game interface, a [[Focus Loci]] needs to do the actual clicking in the game environment. Any [[Focus Loci]] can work, but [[God Fingers]] are probably the most suitable since these can allow clicking on any part of the [[Game Worlds]] or game interfaces.
 The [[Clickability]] of [[Game Items]] or parts of game environments can easily be strengthened by using [[Diegetically Outstanding Features]] but this most probably breaks [[Diegetic Consistency]].
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 [[Game Items]],
 [[Game Mastery]],
 [[Pottering]]

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 [[Clickability]] exists at some level as soon as there are clickable things in the game environment that have a noticeable effects, and even when there are no gameplay effect inherent in an action [[Clickability]] can be provided through [[Extra-Game Consequences]] similar to the responses [[Units]] provide in the [[Warcraft series]]. [[Game Items]] that have high levels of [[Clickability]] as soon as players are aware of them include [[Switches]], and given that they exist in groups, [[Pick-Ups]], and [[Reward Widgets]].
-[[Clickability]] does not have to depend on having objects in the game environment; [[Combos]] created by using [[Timing]], as found for example in the [[Mortal Kombat series|Mortal Kombat]] and [[Tekken series]], creates [[Clickability]] based on the feedback loops of pressing physical buttons and movements performed by the players' [[Avatars]].
+[[Clickability]] does not have to depend on having objects in the game environment; [[Combos]] created by using [[Timing]] in [[Real-Time Games]], as found for example in the [[Mortal Kombat series|Mortal Kombat]] and [[Tekken series]], creates [[Clickability]] based on the feedback loops of pressing physical buttons and movements performed by the players' [[Avatars]].
 === Diegetic Aspects ===
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 [[Reward Widgets]]
-[[Combos]] created by using [[Timing]]
+[[Combos]] created by using [[Timing]] in [[Real-Time Games]]
 === Can Be Modulated By ===

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 <references>
 <ref name="Jarvinen">Järvinen, A. (2010) ''Clickability: A Design Concept for Social Games''. Blog [http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/AkiJarvinen/20100304/4573/Clickability_A_Design_Concept_for_Social_Games.php  entry] reposted at Gamasutra 07/05/10.</ref>
-<ref name="Linderoth"> Linderoth, J. (2010).''Why gamers donʼt learn more - An ecological approach to games as learning environment'', in Nordic DiGRA 2010.</ref>
+<ref name="Linderoth"> Linderoth, J. (2010). ''Why gamers donʼt learn more - An ecological approach to games as learning environment'', in Nordic DiGRA 2010.</ref>
 </references>
 == Acknowledgements ==
 Aki Järvinen

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 ''Noticeable feedback loops based on clicking as input which are meant to be enjoyable in themselves.''
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 == Using the pattern ==
-As long as there are clickable things in the game environment that provides some
+[[Clickability]] exists at some level as soon as there are clickable things in the game environment that have a noticeable effects, and even when there are no gameplay effect inherent in an action [[Clickability]] can be provided through [[Extra-Game Consequences]] similar to the responses [[Units]] provide in the [[Warcraft series]]. [[Game Items]] that have high levels of [[Clickability]] as soon as players are aware of them include [[Switches]], and given that they exist in groups, [[Pick-Ups]], and [[Reward Widgets]].
-−
-Providing [[Clickability]] in a game can be
 [[Combos]]
+[[Clickability]] does not
-[[Pick-Ups]]
 [[Time Limits]]
 === Diegetic Aspects ===
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 === Can Be Instantiated By ===
-[[Diegetically Outstanding Features]]
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 [[Clickability]] does not always have to depend on clicking on things in an game environment. [[:Category:Fighting Games|Fighting Games]] such as the [[Mortal Kombat series|Mortal Kombat]] and [[Tekken series]] can provide high degrees of [[Clickability]] toward pressing the buttons on the physical controls used to play the games.
-While selecting units in most [[:Category:Real-Time Strategy Games|Real-Time Strategy Games]]
+Selecting individual units is a basic interface action in [[:Category:Real-Time Strategy Games|Real-Time Strategy Games]], but the [[Starcraft series|Starcraft]] and [[Warcraft series]] provide [[Clickability]] for these actions by having the units give humorous responses when clicked repeatedly.
 == Using the pattern ==