{"id":193,"date":"2024-11-14T15:23:30","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T15:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/?p=193"},"modified":"2025-02-20T23:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T23:56:28","slug":"my-essential-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/2024\/11\/14\/my-essential-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"My Essential Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is an \u201cEssential Experience\u201d? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the context of a game design document (GDD), the term \u201cessential experience\u201d refers to the core emotional or experiential takeaway that you want players to have while playing the game. It represents the defining element of how the game should feel from the player\u2019s perspective, regardless of specific mechanics, graphics, or narrative. This concept helps maintain a focus on delivering a cohesive and impactful experience, serving as a guiding principle for design choices throughout development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I want my players to have a sense of purpose, fulfilment, and connection with nature as they observe their efforts to find a new home for their collective. I want the players to strive to improve the gameworld for themselves and take this experience into the real world.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is an \u201cEssential Experience\u201d? In the context of a game design document (GDD), the term \u201cessential experience\u201d refers to the core emotional or experiential takeaway that you want players to have while playing the game. It represents the defining element of how the game should feel from the player\u2019s perspective, regardless of specific mechanics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-r-and-d","category-term-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":346,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/jb19g23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}