Game Analysis Methodological Toolkit-Consalvo

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#notesFromPaper Year : Tags : game analysis, game critique Authors: Consalvo Dutton

http://www.gamestudies.org/0601/articles/consalvo_dutton

A template when studying a game as a “text”

4 areas one should consider:

• object inventory
• interface study
• interaction map
• gameplay log

Just playing the game is the minimum, but this must be augmented by careful analysis of the components of the game itself.