Critical Gameplay Design

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Game designs where the gameplay is intended to cause critical reflection.

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The online exhibition [Critical Gameplay] hosts several games that highlights features of games often overlooked by designing counter-examples. While the pattern described here is broader in context, the examples show how gameplay can be designed to stimulate critical reflection.

Examples

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Power Explorer

Train


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An updated version of the pattern ... that was part of the original collection in the book Patterns in Game Design[1].

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New pattern created in this wiki.

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