How Game Designers Enable Player Freedom

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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
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The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (2023)
Duration: 11:38
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Designing for freedom seems like a paradox, except it is enabled by the systems game designers author. This video explores the many ways freedom and expression are allowed for by games.

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Sources

- Breaking Conventions with Breath of the Wild GDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyMsF31NdNc&t=11s

- Game Mechanics : Advanced Game Design , Ernest Adams

- The Freedom Fallacy , Scott Rigby GDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vct13OhIio&t=41s

- Practical Creativity , Raph Koster GDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyVTxGpEO30&t=43s

- Open Ended Puzzle Design at Zachtronics GDC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4uH1ynH3Rs&t=14s

- Video Games and Creativity , Garo Green and James C. Kaufman

- Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention , Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

- The Glitch Art of Tears of the Kingdom , Lewis Gordon https://artreview.com/the-glitch-art-of-zelda-tears-of-the-kingdom/

- The Beginners Guide To Street Fighter 6 , Rooflemonger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seXtzdiKi4Y

- Designing for Speedrunners , Celia Wagar https://critpoints.net/2020/09/16/designing-for-speedrunners/

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