Task 6

Gameplay: A way of expression


Well, Gameplay is a term which is used to judge the quality of the experience gained by a gamer while playing a game. That’s the main use of the term “Gameplay” on press. But Gameplay has an indefinite meaning. I believe it’s a very complex nature, which combine the whole game and how easily you can play the game. In a way, Gameplay is the soul and the material of the game and the graphics give the appearance. A good game combines those two, but a good Gameplay can easily make a big success without good graphics.

Generally, the famous games which are created from the “big” developers (like Blizzard, Sports Interactive, Valve, Square Enix, Infogrames), who are the leading lights in the game design, are not responsibility of a single person, but of many different development teams. However, there are always some “key” people who express the main idea of the game, and on the other hand there are many games created from one person (the most of those games are nearly unknown). The “elite” of game designers are in long term (1-3 years) projects with enormous development cost. So, generally I can say that the Game Design take place in the game industry.

I like a lot of game types such as RPG, FPS, strategy and some car racing types. And each of them has their own personal style in Gameplay and in structure. If all the games had the same design principles, they will probably all look similar. A chess Master said, if you find a good move then try to find a better one; so, if you think the same about games, is valid. Because the evolution in games designs, from the beginning until now, they find different and better types of game design. To sum up, the most important thing for a game when we play it is the Gameplay.