Task 11


The soul of the game

I said it before and I’ll say it again now. The Gameplay is the soul and the material of the games. Like the souls of people are an “abyss”, in the same way are for the games; and for that reason is difficult to difine them in a term. So, the next best thing to do is to say about the personality of the soul or better, Gameplay.

In video game terminology Gameplay is the overall experience of playing the game excluding the factors of graphics, sound, and the storyline. Excluding the Gameplay, in a way, all the factors helping to get the “best” experience, with the storyline to be on the top of that list. But Gameplay has an indefinite meaning.
I believe it’s a very complex nature, which combines the whole game and how easily you can play-live and love the game. The Gameplay has an object, to become a part of your life, of your self and if succeed then nothing can stop you playing the game; for example, I was playing the FF7 without colour, sound, color and sound, with broken gamepad and finally I restarted the game more than 4 time to succeed the very best. So, the Gameplay gives life to the game and is the most important thing because without it the game is just a toy.

"Let there be light". And there was light


A successful way, in my opinion, to have a good Gameplay is to create the game with love, to be like an extension of the creator. Of course, there are some rules and types you have to follow, but those are like making a cake you have a recipe but is up to you to make the material-cake. And that rules and types are the random interacting factors which are coming from your relationship with the creation of the game. To be more specific, you have a plan for a game and a Gameplay, and at the end the final work is different from that plan. So, what is most important for a Gameplay? The way of creation of the game-Gameplay or the main idea? The random factors? Your personality?
My opinion is that all these are important and is like an equation with random numbers and your result is multiplied with the care and love you put to solve it... and this is the Gameplay.