{"id":10276,"date":"2016-08-09T00:28:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T00:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/schools-often-teach-the\/"},"modified":"2016-08-09T00:28:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T00:28:48","slug":"schools-often-teach-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/schools-often-teach-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Schools often teach the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics framework to analyze game design, which is a tremendous framework focused on the input-output loop a game creates. While that is an extremely powerful perspective to have on games, I tend to shift focus to the space between Mechanics and Dynamics, and use a personal Intent-Mechanics-Declaration model to communicate flaws in the game design. As always, the model is always in flux, and I doubt I\u2019m the first one to use a model like this.\u00a0The model is rather simple and by no means exhaustive, but can be most easily communicated as three concentric circles. The Intent is a circle. Around that circle is a larger circle, the Mechanics layer. Around that is a third circle, the Declarative layer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ramiismail.com\/2016\/08\/the-center-of-all-things\/\">The Center Of All Things | Rami Ismail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Game developer, Rami Ismail of Vlambeer, here offers a critique of the language and mental model we have for understanding and teaching game design. He is a thoughtful maker and so it pays to attend to him.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Schools often teach the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics framework to analyze game design, which is a tremendous framework focused on the input-output loop a game creates. While that is an extremely powerful perspective to have on games, I tend to shift focus to the space between Mechanics and Dynamics, and use a personal Intent-Mechanics-Declaration model to communicate flaws [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[194,42,197,193,39,196,195,179,40],"class_list":["post-10276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","tag-critical-vocabulary","tag-design","tag-design-theory","tag-game","tag-game-design","tag-idiom","tag-jargon","tag-learning","tag-teaching","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-2FK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}