Category:Staffan's current workpage

Just a simple category to help keep track of which page Staffan Björk is working on.

ToDos

• Find name for dropping and picking up trading for Transferable Items
• Add Kriegsspiel and link it to patterns
• Find proper reference to Sid Meier's "interesting choices" quote.
• Add following games as examples: Scrabble, Solitaire, Diplomacy, Risk, Trivial Pursuit, Pinball Dreams, Mornington Crescent, Conspiracy for Good, Prosopopeia, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, Fruit Ninja, Osmos, the Worms series, Robot Unicorn Attack, Elite series
• Fix all patterns in Category:Stub
• Add LARP examples to patterns from the Nordic LARP book, including the patterns Events Timed to the Real World and Heterogeneous Game Element Ownership
• Ensure that all mechanics from BoardGameGeek are represented.
• Check Roleplaying pattern for inclusion of more roleplaying books (desktop & dungeons, plus the ones at the office)
• Mikael Rytterhags subversions of camping (see handin 4)
• Magnus Olaussons ideer om direct-control switches
• Camile Baudron types of jumping
• Brice Clocher for types of exploration
• Find text from LeBlanc about feedback loops in games for those patterns
• For Cutscenes - Klevjer, R. 2002. In Defence of Cutscenes. Computer Games and Digital Cultures Conference Proceedings (Tampere, 2002).

for Aim & Shoot

• Add Duck Hunt for NES (and other such gams, and thank Johan Wingård)

for Grinding (via Christian Klinton)

• Best, Z. (2010). The Opposite of Grind. Available: http://gamedesignaspect.blogspot.com/2010/12/opposite-of-grind.html. Last accessed 9 Mars 2011.
• Josh. (2010). Blur Career Mode Tutorial Video Guide. Available: http://www.videogamesblogger.com/2010/06/05/blur-walkthrough-video-guide-ps3-xbox-360-pc.htm. Last accessed 9 Mars 2011.
• Lawley, L. (2006). In Praise of the Grind. Available: http://terranova.blogs.com/terra_nova/2006/08/in_praise_of_th.html. Last accessed 9 Mars 2011.
• Polack, T. (2008). Mechanics 3: Achievements. Available: http://www.polycat.net/1402/mechanics-3-achievements/. Last accessed 9 Mars 2011.
• Thompson, C. (2008). Back to the Grind in WoW — and Loving Every Tedious Minute. Available: http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2008/07/gamesfrontiers_0728. Last accessed 9

for Levels

• Dormans work on action-adventure games
• Hullett and Whitehead
• Milam and Seif El Nasr

Tools

Gameplay Design Pattern Template, Shortened

tyda.se

wikipedia