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Play is a type of entertainment; it is almost similar as reading books,
watch films, and listens to music. However, it should be noted that
while reading a book, it is not readers that entertains readers, the
author instead. However, it turns out to be players who entertain
players in terms of playing games. Therefore, movie watchers,
music listeners, book readers do not have any power to modify the
content on how the movie, music and book should end, but rather
the authors do have. In the other hand, games are created by game
designers whereas gamers have ultimate power on how to decide
how games should end.
2.
Pretending
Pretending is one of the essential elements in a game, it is required
to create the imaginary environment within a game, or rather called
as magic circle. Players may realize that it is truly different from
the situation, events, and concepts of real world. Hence, the
following graph describes the difference between magic circle and
real world.
Image 2.2 The Magic Circle Graph Separates Itself Against The
Real World Graph (Adams, 2010).
3.
Goal
Goals are one of the most required factors within a game as it is the
combination between objectives and rules which generates the entire
game. It also applies to games that do not have any goal or
destination, which means in order to keep players playing the game,
there should be a certain goals to achieve such as staying alive or
stay on top of a certain target of resource. For instance, games like
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