The Second part of our exploration of Complexity. Here we explore the for different types of Complexity
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Cliff Notes:
00:05 Introduction 00:23 The 4 Complexity Manifestations 01:25 Identifying Negative and Positive Engagement 02:41 Comprehension Complexity 03:31 Negative Comprehension Complexity 04:37 Games that Focus on Comprehension Complexity 04:57 Phoenix Wright, Professor Layton, and Ghost Trick 05:24 Engagement from Discovering What Something Is 05:32 Situational Complexity 06:52 What is Situational Complexity 07:10 Situational Complexity and The Word Search 07:48 The Situation Assessment Triangle 08:46 How Memory Grouping Interacts with Situational Complexity 10:21 Strategic Complexity 10:54 Startegic Complexity and the Learning Curve 11:59 Make sure Strategy involves Meaningful Choice 12:59 Positive Strategic Engagement 13:26 The Importance of Readability for Strategy 14:00 Readability and E-sports 14:26 Executional Complexity 14:55 All objects have Executional Complexity 15:17 Executional Complexity and the Learning Curve 15:51 Executional Complexity as a barrier to play 16:25 Conventional Sports Games and Training 16:56 Training and Video Games 17:20 Positive Executional Complexity 18:17 How do we apply these concepts to Game Design 19:18 Ghost Trick and Focusing on specific elements of Complexity 20:18 Multi-faceted Complexity manipulation 20:59 The Counter System Example 21:20 Examining a Forced Stealth Sequence for Complexity 22:24 Complexity as a function of Learning and Wrap up 23:55 Next Cast 24:23 Sign Off