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# 19-01-29 Games Decomposition

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[Read the original document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eY1mM_lxXmqSiz4awPPBGwS8mhbSJtAmMHcWJww3QUk/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076806000&usg=AOvVaw1byk6qZ9Q87aNqQdjAUe23)

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Source mechanisms for creating games.

Can be recombined with one another (with some types and a grammar over those types) to automate the creation of a space of possible playable games.

1. Competition
2. Cooperation
   1. Partners
   2. Teams
   3. Merged Adversarial / Cooperative 
      1. Ex., trading between competitors
3. Time Limitation
4. Scoring / Points
5. Resources
6. Social pressure
   1. Ex., Hotseat
7. Person-to-person in line or circle
   1. Ex., Telephone, story generation
8. Guess the x
   1. Ex., One person generates, other person guesses
9. Win Condition / Lose Condition / End Condition
10. Audience feedback (yay, boo, voting)
11. Randomness
   1. Ex., Random Rewards / Punishments
   2. Ex., Random Progress
   3. Ex., Choosing a random vs. certain punishment / reward
12. Matching
   1. Ex., People to people
   2. Ex., Ideas to ideas
   3. Ex., Cards to cards
13. Creation
   1. Collective creation
14. Destruction
   1. Collective destruction
15. Challenge, mission, goal, objective
   1. Local, Intermediate and Global
   2. Optional vs. Mandatory
   3. Sets of path vs. single path
16. Being expelled from / added to the game
   1. Continuous vs. non-continuous play

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*Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eY1mM_lxXmqSiz4awPPBGwS8mhbSJtAmMHcWJww3QUk/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076806000&usg=AOvVaw1byk6qZ9Q87aNqQdjAUe23)*