You can see how the player is continuing to move forward in the game, gaining experience, better weapons, and so on, while repeating a single core activity in the game. The threat is more dangerous than before. A settlement needs your help.Ģ) Player travels to settlement, fights enemies using weapons.ģ) Enemies drop weapons and award experience.Ĥ) Player uses new weapons and experience to become more dangerous.ĥ) Player returns to Preston Garvey. In this simplified version the players gameplay loop might look like this:ġ) Player talks to Preston Garvey.
For an example I will be using a simplified version of Fallout 4. A gameplay loop is the main chunk of activities that the player repeatedly engages in, with one stage feeding the next until it loops back around again. I thought I would take some time tonight and restart the practice, this time taking a look at Lab Rats 2! In particular, I'm going to be looking at the central gameplay loop of LR2, what is already in place, and what needs to be added to make it a satisfying game.įirst, lets establish what I mean by a "gameplay loop".
Game design is one of my passions, and back in the early days of Lab Rats 1 I would put up posts talking about the various design principles I was following.
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