[Music] hello again day number three we're going to talk about game rules what are game rules about game rules is a document and it's also what is expected about a player to understand game rules you really have to make a difference in between the word game and the word play a game is what is expected and the way players play is what really happened when you talk about game play you're really talking about what really happened but when you write game rules you're only focusing on what is expected so when you write game rules don't
try to imagine situations strategies or maybe Bluff only try to focus on the steps that need to be followed by the players there's two different aspects you need to keep in mind about game rules the first is game rules need to be Progressive a bit like game level design Simple Rules should be there first and then players should learn about more complex more complicated rules the second thing you need to know about game rules is that these game rules are about serious games this means these game rules help you learn something it's good practice to
separate the aim of the game from the game rules what your brain needs to know first is what he wants to do and only after he knows where he's going is he interested in how he's going to do that so very simply at the beginning of game rules just keep keep in mind keep keep focused on defining with a few sentences what needs to be done in the game uh game rules need to be interesting and to be interesting you need to pull the player away from his reality you need to pull the player away
from The Real World there's many different ways to do that you could for example use an epic call an epic call is kind of a mission that is given to the player I need you I need you to save the world only you can do it another more simple way perhaps to cut the player away from his reality is to tell him straight away uh what's going to happen to give him practical information okay in this game you're going to be playing for 20 minutes or for 30 minutes in this game you're going to be
three players or four players or five players in this game you're going to be using or doing something specific in all cases your game rules need to pull the player away from the reality when you write game rules you have to be practical where does the game start how does the game start where does the game finish how do you know the game has started how do you know the game has finished you also have to be practical about the pieces that are going to be used you can use text but you can also use
pictures pictures help players put a word on a game piece when you think about game rules you have to think in terms of five W's and one H what what's going to happen where where do you play the game you play indoors Outdoors who who do you play with when how long will the game last why why am I playing the game what am I going to learn and then you have to think about how how do I proceed how do I do how do I start what happens step after step so really simply if
you want to make sure the game rules are covering all aspects of the game ask yourself have I fulfilled the five ws and the H where why when who what how just as you have to test a game you have to test the playability of a game what does that mean well you could imagine that your game rules are very clear but you won't know that your game rules are clear until you give them to a player until you ask a player to read them try and focus on uh asking players that read your game
rules rules how would you start what would you do not so much uh what did you understand but what would you do what you really need to keep in mind is that your game rules are good once players told you they are good if players say Okay I want to play okay I understand okay this is what I need to do then you know your game rules are good enough for the player to start playing [Music]
