{"id":283,"date":"2025-11-05T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T21:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-12-24T17:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T17:17:14","slug":"week-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/week-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6, Game system &amp; Core Loops"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"283\" class=\"elementor elementor-283\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-00be093 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"00be093\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9ad65bc elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9ad65bc\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Game Loops:<\/strong><\/p><p>Game loops describe repeatable player actions and their resource flows, forming the rhythm of play.<\/p><p>\u2022Core Loops (moment-to-moment gameplay),<\/p><p>\u2022Meta Loops (progression and motivation),<\/p><p>\u2022Temporal Layers (second-to-second, minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour).<\/p><p>-Meta Systems: The Game Beyond the Game<\/p><p>The lecture highlighted how meta systems like Wild Rift\u2019s itemisation or champion mastery sustain motivation long after the core gameplay becomes familiar.<\/p><p>Meta systems connect momentary fun with long-term goals, offering players mastery, personalisation, and a sense of identity.<\/p><p>The example of gold as a tap\/sink made me think about how progression systems double as psychological reinforcement loops \u2014 a crucial insight for live-service or replayable games.<\/p><h3>Documentation and Simulation<\/h3><p>\u2022Write user stories<\/p><p>\u2022Break down actions, resources, and variables<\/p><p>\u2022Use tables and Excel simulations for balancing<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game Loops: Game loops describe repeatable player actions and their resource flows, forming the rhythm of play. \u2022Core Loops (moment-to-moment gameplay), \u2022Meta Loops (progression and motivation), \u2022Temporal Layers (second-to-second, minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour). -Meta Systems: The Game Beyond the Game The lecture highlighted how meta systems like Wild Rift\u2019s itemisation or champion mastery sustain motivation long after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":574,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wsagames.com\/sz3c23\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}