Features and Mechanics
Features and Mechanics
8 lessons
Course Details
As you progress through your game design journey, you will find the desire to expand the basic offerings found within your game.
Features and Mechanics are elements which can be added to your game to provide depth and user involvement.
In modern games today, there are many different kinds of features you can utilize. The features that work the best often depend on the type of game you are creating.
This course takes a look at common features and mechanics that are found in many of today’s most popular games. Learn how these mechanics work and why they are important. Pitfalls and common issues are also presented allowing you to get the most out of them.
Course Contents (8 lessons)
- 1.
To run a successful game there are several features and game mechanics that can help you get the most out of your game. In this article we will look at several of these and provide a brief explanation of how they work. - 2.
For many games, the basic energy mechanic is both the lifeblood and revenue stream for the game. - 3.
Achievement systems are a very popular mechanic to help add depth and dimension into your game. During this post we will explain how these systems work and how to implement one in your game. - 4.
The buildable mechanic is when you provide a mechanism for your users to combine existing items into a better item. Or put differently, the users are building upon their existing items to get better items. - 5.
The harvest mechanic is a very straight forward game mechanic used in a lot of games. When it comes to online social games, no game is more famous for this game mechanic than that of... - 6.
Adding a quest system into your game helps to add a lot of depth and meaning into the daily grind of tasks that users perform. - 7.
User Generate Content (UGC) is content within your mobile app that a user creates via your app. User generated content, in a social sharing context, is considered very high worth and valuable content. - 8.
User Segmentation Systems in mobile apps are a way to separate your users into buckets and provide a unique experience to that user based upon that bucket.
Let's Get Started on the First Lesson!
To run a successful game there are several features and game mechanics that can help you get the most out of your game. In this article we will look at several of these and provide a brief explanation of how they work.
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