{"id":252,"date":"2006-04-06T15:37:12","date_gmt":"2006-04-06T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=252"},"modified":"2006-04-06T15:43:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-06T14:43:49","slug":"the-400-project-now-at-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2006\/04\/06\/the-400-project-now-at-112\/","title":{"rendered":"The 400 Project: Now at 112."},"content":{"rendered":"

To say a bit more about the 400 project<\/a>: For years, this has been an idea stated on a web site<\/a> plus a few rules in Game Developer Magazine, but with the March 16th update, the 400 project has turned into a valuable resource with the current rules master list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

112 so far, not 400 (which according to Noah Falstein is a random number anyway).<\/p>\n

I think it is not as much a list of 112 things that you have to apply to every game in the world (give or take a few conditions for which rules trump which), as it is a list that can inspire any given game design. A few examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3<\/strong><\/td>\nMaintain Level of Abstraction<\/td>\nImmersion is easily disturbed — don’t make the player re-calibrate his \t\t“suspension of disbelief” and lose touch with your game<\/td>\nPsych<\/td>\nHal Barwood<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
108<\/strong><\/td>\nProvide Score Feedback<\/td>\nIn a game where score is important, provide direct audio and visual \t\tfeedback every time the score changes – like a sound and floating \t\tnumbers.<\/td>\nFeedback<\/td>\nSteve Meretzky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Of course, you knew perfectly well to maintain the level of abstraction and to provide score feedback. But did you really do this in your current game? I think the list is for that type of realization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To say a bit more about the 400 project: For years, this has been an idea stated on a web site plus a few rules in Game Developer Magazine, but with the March 16th update, the 400 project has turned into a valuable resource with the current rules master list. 112 so far, not 400 … Continue reading “The 400 Project: Now at 112.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}