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Game Art and Design
Unit 3 Lesson 2


Objectives
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Big Idea
Knowledge of the basic skills and
components of any field makes one
uniquely prepared to perform at a high
level in that area.
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GAME OBJECTIVES
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Game Objectives
A game objective is what a player is
trying to achieve in order to win.
Consider these questions
What are some of the objectives of games
you have played?
What are the players trying to do?
How do you win?
These are questions a designer asks
about a game objective.

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

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Game Objectives Examples
Battleship: Be the first player to sink all
five of your opponents battleships
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Game Objectives Examples
Connect Four: Be the first player to
place four units in a contiguous line on
the playing grid
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Game Objectives Examples
Chess: Checkmate your opponents king
(cannot move without being captured)
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Game Objectives Examples
Super Mario Brothers: Rescue Princess
Toadstool from the evil Bowser by
completing all eight worlds
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Game Objectives Examples
Civilization: Conquer all other civilizations
on the board
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Game Objective Categories
Capture
Chase
Race
Alignment
Rescue or Escape
Forbidden Act
Construction
Exploration
Solution
Outwit
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Game Objective: Capture
Take or capture something of the
opponents while avoiding being
captured or killed.
Includes games like checkers and chess.
Also in this category are real-time
strategy games.
The concept of capturing (killing) the
opponents forces in very common in
games.
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Game Objective: Capture
Example includes Quake, SOCOM II, and
WarCraft.
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Game Objective: Chase
Catch or elude an opponent.
Chase games can be structured as
single-player vs. game, player vs.
player, or unilateral competition.
Chase games can be determined by
speed or physical dexterity
Stealth and strategy
Logic and deduction
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Game Objective: Chase
Examples include Fox & Geese,
Assassin, and tag
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Game Objective: Race
Reach a goal physical or conceptual
before the other players.
Examples could be a footrace, a board
game like Uncle Wiggly or Parcheesi.
Can be determined by physical
dexterity.
Can also be determined by a mix of
strategy and chance like
Backgammon.
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Game Objective: Race
Examples include Backgammon, Gran
Turismo, and Sorry
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Game Objective: Alignment
Arrange 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
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Game Objective: Alignment
Examples include Tic-Tac-Toe,
Bejeweled, Solitaire, Connect Four, and
Tetris
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Game Objective Rescue
The objective is a rescue or escape
game is to get a defined unit or units to
safety.
The objective is often combined with
other partial objectives.
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Game Objective Rescue
Examples include Super Mario Brothers,
Prince of Persia, and Emergency Rescue.
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Game Objective: Forbidden Act
The objective in a forbidden act game is
to get the competition to break the
rules by laughing, talking, letting go,
making wrong moves, or doing
something they shouldnt.
Not often found in digital games.
Sometimes involves stamina or
flexibility.
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Game Objective: Forbidden Act
Examples include Twister, Ker Plunk,
Pick up Sticks, and Operation
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Game Objective: Construction
The object in a construction game is to
build, maintain, or manage objects.
May be directly competitive or indirectly
competitive.
Games with a construction objective
often make use of resource
management or trading as a game
element.
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Game Objective: Construction
Examples include Civilization, SimCity,
and Mouse Trap
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Game Objective: Exploration
The object in an exploration game is to
explore game areas usually combined
with a competitive objective.
Sometimes multiple objectives such as
exploration, puzzle solving, and combat
intertwine to form multifaceted
gameplay.
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Game Objective: Exploration
Examples include Zelda and EverQuest
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Game Objective: Solution
The object in a solution game is to solve
a problem or puzzle before the
competition.
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Game Objective: Solution
Examples include Sudoku and Clue
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Game Objective: Outwit
The object in a game of wits is to gain
and use knowledge in a way that
defeats the other players.
Sometimes extra-game knowledge
comes into gameplay (Jeopardy or
Trivial Pursuit).
This type of game may provoke
interesting social dynamics.
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Game Objective: Outwit
Examples include Trivial Pursuit,
Jeopardy, and Survivor.
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Big Idea
Knowledge of the basic skills and
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uniquely prepared to perform at a high
level in that area.
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Game Art and Design
Unit 3 Lesson 2


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