Aesthetics Quote by Jesse Schell

“Designing the core mechanics consists of identifying the key entities and mechanics in the game and writing specifications to document the nature of the…

— Ernest Adams

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions…

— Tom Chatfield

“Core Mechanics The core mechanics consist of the data and the algorithms that precisely define the game’s rules and internal operations.”

— Ernest Adams

The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and…

— Bruce Feirstein

Computer games can be works of art and literature - they're still developing. The stories they can tell, and the experiences they provide, are…

— Naomi Alderman

As a genre, videogames take our minds on journeys, and we can control and experience them much more interactively than passively - especially when…

— John Maeda

Gamers have this tendency to turn games into mathematical equations, breaking them into lists of components like 'presentation' and 'mechanics' and judging each one…

— Jason Schreier

When you strip away the genre differences and the technological complexities, all games share four defining traits: a goal, rules, a feedback system, and…

— Jane McGonigal

The knowledge that all the games are created by the community, it gives the opportunity to try exploratory gaming concepts. Our developers take larger…

— David Baszucki

I consider video games a form of design that is amazingly important today and that is going to become even more important in the…

— Paola Antonelli

“Videogames require critical interpretation to mediate our experience of the simulation, to ground it in a set of coherent and expressive values, responses, or…

— Ian Bogost

“the discursivity of games is changed by the capabilities of game engines. The kinds of works, and the nature of these works, have material…

— Ian Bogost