{"id":428,"date":"2024-11-05T01:02:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T01:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/?p=428"},"modified":"2025-01-08T22:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T22:36:06","slug":"essential-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/essential-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Essential Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">What is an &#8220;Essential Experience&#8221;?<\/span><\/strong><br>In the context of a game design document (GDD), the <strong>&#8220;essential experience&#8221;<\/strong> refers to the core emotional or experiential takeaway you want players to have as they play the game. It&#8217;s the defining element of what the game should <em>feel<\/em> like from the player&#8217;s perspective, regardless of specific mechanics, graphics, or narrative. This concept helps keep the development focused on delivering a cohesive, impactful experience and serves as a guiding principle when making design choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"background-color:#58718c\"><strong>The Essential Experience for my game:<\/strong> I want the player to navigate the emotional journey of loss and overcoming grief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an &#8220;Essential Experience&#8221;?In the context of a game design document (GDD), the &#8220;essential experience&#8221; refers to the core emotional or experiential takeaway you want players to have as they play the game. It&#8217;s the defining element of what the game should feel like from the player&#8217;s perspective, regardless of specific mechanics, graphics, or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development-ideation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1267,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/1267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/ab15g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}