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• Referral from April 17, 2014
  

  John R. asked:

  Has anyone ever tried to list the many different mechanics that can be used in a game?

  

  Thomas L. replied:

  I think many game designers have tried (and mostly failed). "The 400 Project" by some of the granddaddies of video game design springs to mind: http://gameonwebdesign.com/RulesList.html The problem is that rules, mechanics, guidelines and such don't easily distill into discreet sets of boxes. Some rules contain other subrules and so on. Additionally there are a large number of ALMOST similar rules. Should these be indiviual or part of a category? Also the list would never be complete. At least claiming it to be complete would be the same as stating "there will never be a new type of game invented". These factors (and others I'm sure) kind of makes it a fools errand.

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