Introduction:
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Mechanics:
| Mechanic | Good Examples | Bad Examples | Page/Subpage | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open World | Environment/World Building/Open World | |||
| Backtracking | Environment/World Building/Backtracking | |||
| Day/Night Cycles | Environment/World Building/Day and Night Cycles | |||
| Side Quests / Detours | Fallout/Skyrim | Environment/World Building/ Side Quests and Detours | Can keep hours of engagement, especially for certain types of adhd??? | |
| Place Names | Environment/World Building/Toponymy | |||
| Destroyable World Objects | Environment/Destruction | |||
| Tutorial/Tutorial Level | Environment/Tutorials | |||
| Guidance vs Hand Holding | Environment/Tutorials/Types of Tutorials | |||
| Weather | Environment/Weather | |||
| Narrative Choices | Environment/Narrative Choices | |||
| Turn-Based / Realtime | Game Modes/Timekeeping | |||
| Difficulty | Game Modes/Difficulty | |||
| Genre | Game Modes/Genre | Detective, Strategy, Puzzle...? Own page or within Genre? "Top-down RTS Combat"WWWS | ||
| Movement | PC/Movement | Grid-based movement = bad? | ||
| Fast Travel | PC/Movement/Fast Travel | |||
| Teleportation | PC/Movement/Fast Travel/Teleportation | |||
| Animations | PC/Animations | I-Frames, own page or within animations? | ||
| Skills/Abilities/Powerups | PC/Abilities | |||
| Sleep/Recharge | PC/Resting | |||
| Health | PC/Health | Healing Systems/Death | ||
| Inventory/Carrying Systems | PC/Inventory | Carry weight/inventory limits | ||
| NPC Movement | NPC/Movement | |||
| NPC Schedules | NPC/Movement/Schedules | |||
| NPC Dialogue | NPC/Dialogue | |||
| Trading/Bartering/shops | NPC/Trading | |||
| Bosses | NPC/Bosses | Boss phases, boss rushes, impossible bosses, secret bosses | ||
| Companions | NPC/Companions | |||
| Combat | Combat | |||
| Types of damage | Combat/Types of Damage | Poison | ||
| Super Moves/Crits | Combat/Super Moves | |||
| Save Systems | Meta Mechanics/Saving | |||
| Speedrunning | Meta Mechanics/Speedrunning | |||
| Cheat Codes | Meta Mechanics/Cheats | |||
| Game Pacing | Meta Mechanics/Pacing | |||
| Microtransactions | Meta Mechanics/Microtransactions | Usually bad??? | ||
| Dead Space? | Story? Movement? | |||
| Perspective (3rd person) | Skyrim/Fallout | Cyberpunk | PC/Perspective | |
| Building Placement | Manor Lords | Environment/Building | Most "city builders" allow cities to be built the same way. Manor Lords does it differently and better? | |
| Character Creation | Fallout 4/Sims 4 | GTA Online | PC/Character Creation | |
| Crafting |