Nonverbal Communication in Game Design
Channel: The Game Overanalyser
Date: 2021-12-03

Teaching without explicit instruction is seen as a heuristic of good game design, but have we really examined why this is the case? Are there other tools of conveyance that games have to communicate ideas both within and outside their own systems.

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