SCENES - A Game Design Vocabulary - page 64

Figure 3.26 The Worluk appears at one of these locations, randomly chosen, in Wizard of Wor .

Figure 3.27 The player is given a set of four random commands at a time in Glitch Tank .

The effect of this is that it's impossible for both players to play the same series of moves. If
that were possible, the result would be stagnation: the player who played fastest would have
the advantage. And the game isn't about who can play fastest, although thinking fast is an
important skill in Glitch Tank . The focus of the game is on outmaneuvering one's opponent with
the resources one is given. Chance, in this case, maintains a dynamic between the players by
preventing them from performing symmetrically.

Real Talk

Let's talk about how a scene I designed went from conception to its final version. The scene is
from the game REDDER , which I made in 2010. REDDER 's protagonist, Hannah, is an astronaut