How To Design a Decision

 How to Design a Decision 

What makes for a good decision?


Freedom

Freedom to choose between choices.
To extend this consider adding new abilities, but we wary of feature creep.

Impact / Reward

What does the decision do?
More engaging if there are multiple outcomes and they are long lasting choices. 

Understanding

What is the effect from the decision and is it communicated well. Can you learn from a mistake? If you don't understand the impact of your decisions then you don't feel the impact of your decisions. Understanding allows for learning and learning allows for progress and progress feels rewarding.

Meaning

How your decision impacts your future decisions. 

Challenge

If there isn't anything at stake or the problem presented is too easy it won't be fun. After awhile we get too good at solving the decision in front of us, so you need to either offer new decisions or extend the life time of the challenge by presenting some randomness to it. 


If you remove any of these it changes the game fundamentally. 
If you remove the challenge you now have a sandbox game.
If you provide only impact and freedom you now have a gambling game.

You can make a game designed around just one decision. 
  • Minesweeper

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