Situational Game Design

Situational Design lays out a new methodology for designing and critiquing videogames. While most game design books focus on games as formal systems, Situational Design concentrates squarely on player experience. It looks at how playfulness is not a property of a game considered in isolation, but rather the result of the intersection of a game with an appropriate player. Starting from simple concepts, the book advances step-by-step to build up a set of practical tools for designing player-centric playful situations. While these tools provide a fresh perspective on familiar design challenges as well as those overlooked by more transactional design paradigms.

《情境設計》提出了一種新的設計和評價電子遊戲的方法論。儘管大多數遊戲設計書籍都專注於遊戲作為形式系統，但《情境設計》則專注於玩家體驗。它探討了遊戲趣味性不是遊戲本身的特性，而是遊戲與合適的玩家相交的結果。從簡單的概念出發，本書逐步建立了一套實用工具，用於設計以玩家為中心的有趣情境。這些工具不僅提供了對熟悉的設計挑戰的新視角，還解決了被更多交易式設計範式忽視的問題。