Before building a game, there’s a significance to understand “What is Game”. And “Game Maker Studio 2” (abbr. GMS) is @notlsd’s favourite game engine, the game engine’s architecture is a clue to understand this meta-question of game design. Some basic knowledge of GMS is good to understand but not required.

Definition of game from “Rules of play : Game design fundamentals” by Salen & Zimmerman

A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome.

This is one of the most widely recgonized academic definition of game. The key words there are SYSTEM / PLAYER / ARTIFICIAL CONFLICT / RULES / QUANTIFIABLE OUTCOM. We will compare it with GMS equation later.

The GMS Equation

This is the last page of the first chapter of official guide of GameMaker Studio 2 which introduces some basic configuration of GMS engine which @notlsd call it “GMS equation”

GMS-Equation

A Graph Definition by @notlsd

General-Game-Architecture

This graph is drawn by pseudo-UML language, which defines a game.

A game is finite number of rooms under level-up conditions which includes sprites under event-action responses

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