What are some of the objectives of games you have played?

What are some of the objectives of games you have played?

• What are some of the objectives of games you have played?

• What impact do these objectives have on the tone of the game?

• Do certain genres of play lend themselves to certain objectives?

• What are player-determined

• objectives?

The objective of the game is what players strive for.

• The objective of the game is what players strive for.

• They define what players are trying to accomplish with the game.

• In the best games, objectives are challenging just obtainable.

Clue: Be the first player to deduce who, where, and how a murder was committed.

• Clue: Be the first player to deduce who, where, and how a murder was committed.

Battleship: Be the first player to sink all five of your opponent’s battleships.

• Battleship: Be the first player to sink all five of your opponent’s battleships.

Connect Four: Be the first player to place four units in a contiguous line on the playing grid.

• Connect Four: Be the first player to place four units in a contiguous line on the playing grid.

Chess: Checkmate your opponent’s king.

• Chess: Checkmate your opponent’s king.

Super Mario Brothers:

• Super Mario Brothers:

• Rescue Princess Toadstool from the evil Bowser by completing all eight worlds.

Civilization: Conquer all other civilizations on the board.

• Civilization: Conquer all other civilizations on the board.

Capture

• Capture

• Chase

• Race

• Alignment

• Rescue or Escape

• Forbidden Act

• Construction

• Exploration

• Solution

• Outwit

The objective is to take or capture something of the opponent’s while avoiding being captured or killed.

• The objective is to take or capture something of the opponent’s while avoiding being captured or killed.

• Real-time strategy games.

• Examples: checkers and chess.

• Also in this category are real-time strategy games.

• The concept of capturing or killing the opponent’s forces in one ingrained in games.

Catch or elude an opponent

• Catch or elude an opponent

• Can be single-player vs game, player vs player, or unilateral competition.

• Determined by:

• Speed or physical dexterity
• Stealth and strategy
• Logic and deduction

Tag

• Tag

• Laser Tag

• Fox and Geese

• Maximum Chase

Reach a goal – physical or conceptual –Examples could be a footrace, a board game like Uncle Wiggly or Parcheesi.

• Reach a goal – physical or conceptual –Examples could be a footrace, a board game like Uncle Wiggly or Parcheesi.

• Determined by physical dexterity, or by a mix of strategy and chance – like Backgammon.

Uncle Wiggily

• Uncle Wiggily

• Backgammon

• Sorry

• Chinese Chickers

Arrange your game is to arrange your game pieces in a certain configuration or create conceptual alignment between categories of pieces.

• Arrange your game is to arrange your game pieces in a certain configuration or create conceptual alignment between categories of pieces.

• Often puzzle-like because they require “solving” spatial or organizational problems.

• Determined by:

• logic and calculation
• Chance opportunity

Bejeweled

• Bejeweled

• Connct 4

• Jenga

• Tic Tac Toe

• Tetris

Get a defined unit or units to safety or escape from a boundary or mental challenge.

• Get a defined unit or units to safety or escape from a boundary or mental challenge.

• Can be combined with other partial-objectives.

Super Mario brothers

• Super Mario brothers

• Great Dinosaur Rescue

• Turtix Rescue Adventure

Get competition to “break the rules” by laughing, talking, letting go, making wrong moves, or doing something they shouldn’t.

• Get competition to “break the rules” by laughing, talking, letting go, making wrong moves, or doing something they shouldn’t.

• Not often found in digital games.

• Sometimes involves stamina or flexibility.

Twister

• Twister

• Ker Plunk

• Operation

• Pick up sticks

Build, maintain, or manage objects

• Build, maintain, or manage objects

• May be directly competitive or indirectly competitive.

• Often make use of resource management or trading as a game element.

SimCity

• SimCity

• Civilization

• Animal Crossing

• Second Life

• Magnext

Explore game areas – usually combined with a competitive objective.

• Explore game areas – usually combined with a competitive objective.

• Sometimes multiple objectives such as exploration, puzzle solving, and combat intertwine to form multifaceted gameplay.

Zelda

• Zelda

• EverQuest

• Goldland

Solve a problem or puzzle before your opponents or against the computer

• Solve a problem or puzzle before your opponents or against the computer

Myst

• Myst

• World of Goo

• Pipes

Gain and use knowledge in a way that defeats the other players.

• Gain and use knowledge in a way that defeats the other players.

• Sometimes “extra-game” knowledge comes into gameplay (Jeopardy or Trivial Pursuit).

• May provoke interesting social dynamics.

Trivial Pursuit

• Trivial Pursuit

• Survivor

• Win Lose or Draw

• Jeopardy

• Turn the Tide