Game Designers' Note

Complex Systems

Complex systems encourage emergent gameplay.

What Makes a System

  • Can you identify distinct parts?
  • Do the parts affect each other?
  • Do the parts together produce an effect different from each part on its own?
  • Does that effect persist across a variety of circumstances?

Use systems to constrain interaction logic

temperature system
temperature system

Stone Soup

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