Roles in Game Design Teams

In a game design project, you are tasked with creating a simulation of a city. How would you strategically plan the layout to ensure efficient traffic flow and minimize congestion?

• Randomly place roads and buildings.

• Use a grid system and analyze traffic patterns to optimize road placement.

• Focus on aesthetics and place roads where they look best.

• Place roads only around the city center.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

When designing a simulation game that involves resource management, what strategic approach would you take to balance resource availability and player challenge?

• Provide unlimited resources to avoid player frustration.

• Limit resources and require players to make strategic decisions on resource allocation.

• Randomly distribute resources without any constraints.

• Make resources available only through in-game purchases.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

In a team-based game design project, how would you plan the roles and responsibilities to ensure effective collaboration and project completion?

• Assign roles based on team members' preferences without considering their skills.

• Analyze team members' strengths and assign roles that best fit their skills and experience.

• Let team members choose their roles randomly.

• Assign all roles to one person to maintain consistency.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

How would you use evidence from player feedback to improve the design of a simulation game?

• Ignore feedback and continue with the original design.

• Collect and analyze feedback to identify common issues and implement changes accordingly.

• Only consider feedback from expert players.

• Make changes based on feedback from the loudest players.

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What strategic method would you use to test the balance of difficulty in a simulation game?

• Play the game yourself and adjust difficulty based on personal experience.

• Conduct playtesting sessions with a diverse group of players and analyze their performance and feedback.

• Set the difficulty to the highest level to challenge players.

• Use a random number generator to set difficulty levels.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

In a simulation game that involves economic systems, how would you plan to ensure the economy is realistic and engaging for players?

• Use real-world economic data to model the in-game economy.

• Create an economy with unlimited money to simplify gameplay.

• Ignore economic principles and focus solely on graphics.

• Allow players to set their own economic rules.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

How would you strategically incorporate educational elements into a simulation game without compromising entertainment value?

• Focus solely on educational content and ignore entertainment aspects.

• Integrate educational content seamlessly into the gameplay mechanics and narrative.

• Add educational quizzes at random intervals.

• Provide educational content only in the game's manual.

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What approach would you take to ensure that a simulation game remains engaging over time for players?

• Release the game and never update it.

• Regularly update the game with new content and features based on player feedback and trends.

• Focus on graphics and ignore gameplay mechanics.

• Make the game extremely difficult to keep players challenged.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking

In a team meeting, how would you use strategic thinking to resolve a disagreement about the game's design direction?

• Allow the loudest team member to decide.

• Facilitate a discussion where each team member presents evidence and reasoning for their perspective, then reach a consensus.

• Ignore the disagreement and proceed with your own ideas.

• Vote without discussion to quickly resolve the issue.

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How would you plan the user interface of a simulation game to enhance user experience and accessibility?

• Design the interface based on personal preference.

• Conduct user testing to gather feedback and make iterative improvements.

• Use complex menus to showcase advanced features.

• Focus solely on aesthetics without considering functionality.

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DOK Level 3: Strategic Thinking