Assignment Brief: Complete an individual Game Design Criticism. You will evaluate a traditional game (i.e. not a Video Game) from many perspectives. You cannot select Monopoly, however, you may use your previous evaluations as inspiration for this work. Please note, this is not a journalistic appraisal of the game. This is an academic evaluation of a non-computer game. It is important to include your own personal experience in your analysis.

Game - Cards game - UNO

You will:

1. Justify and defend the selection of a traditional game for your personal game design criticism.

2. Describe the game in general terms from your own understandings.

3. Identify the genre(s) of the game.

4. Analyse each component of the game mechanics and context, including: Players Objectives Space Objects Attributes State Secrets Actions Rules Procedures Skills Probability Challenges Emergent gameplay Premise Characters Story Dramatic elements

5. Analyse the meaning, referentiality and socio-cultural layers of the game.

6. Evaluate the visual representation of the game, justify and defend your evaluation.

7. Choose and Evaluate 3 game balancing aspects and its appropriateness or otherwise, from your personal perspective, justify and defend your evaluation. The possible aspects areo Fair/Unfair, including loop holeso Skill/(Chance or Random)o Short/Long, including dead ends/stalemate
o Fun/Otherwise o Forgiving/Otherwise

8. Discover from your evaluations ideas, for future use in your own game projects and how you believe the game could be improved.

9. Define your understanding of the following terms:o Game Design Criticismo Gameo Game mechanicso Game contexto Game balancing