Both of them featured excellent graphics, in terms of style and quality, and both were retail successes. Two games that excelled in their use of beauty were Myst and American McGee's Alice. It is the primary reason why we have 3D accelerator cards today and why the race toward ever more beautiful graphics continues. Rather, it is more useful in improving the immersion of the player (see below).Ī number of games have used beauty as one of their principal means of entertainment. Force-feedback joysticks do try to include the sense of touch, but they lack the subtlety necessary to make it a part of the beauty of a game. Eventually games and technology might evolve enough to affect more senses, but for the time being sight and hearing require the most efforts when designing a game. Beauty isn't only in graphics, however, the quality of sounds (music and sound effects) is a big part of it. Beautyīeauty is an important aspect of videogame design: success has been accomplished and lost over the quality of graphics. Obviously, this is a complex matter and each form could be detailed in more depth. Following this, a brief text will give some explanations as to the nature of each form, then give some examples of their good use in popular videogames and finally will try to give some ideas of how they could be used better in the future. The goal of this is to make clear, in a concise way, what is and is not included in each category. To reach that goal, a short definition will be given for each form. This article will go through each of these in turn, trying to define them and analyze how they can be used effectively to create more interesting games. These fourteen forms of fun are, in no particular order: By understanding these fourteen forms of fun, it is possible to compare the features of a game with them and see which features contribute most to the fun of the game. Instead, it is another tool to help in the creation of better games and the improvement of existing designs. The goal of this list is not to provide a perfect method that would insure the creation of great games.
Obviously, no game uses a single element of this list and nearly all of these "forms of fun" can be combined with the others to create a richer experience. The goal of this article is to be as complete as possible in the enumeration of the broad categories of activities that are fundamentally entertaining.
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