Today, we'll cover more on systems, constraints, and game design. How do we talk about designing games, and what some exercises to help us talk about the process?

• What is a system as it relates to games?
• More discussion on constraints.
• How does a designer start making a game?
• How do we assess a game?

Last Wednesday I had my class design a game. This was the exercise in which they were given a few constraints for the game:

1) The game had to be for two players.

2) The game board had to be an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper.

3) The game had to be completable within 5 minutes.

The students were then handed two random game tokens, a die, and colored markers and given 10 minutes to design a game.