Gaming the System: Designing with Gamestar Mechanic (John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning)

Understanding games as systems, with complex interactions of game elements and rules.

Gaming the System demonstrates the nature of games as systems, how game designers need to think in terms of complex interactions of game elements and rules, and how to identify systems concepts in the design process. The activities use Gamestar Mechanic, an online game design environment with a systems thinking focus.