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+# Card Game
+- uses [[card|cards]]
+- can be easily [[modding|modded]]
+- [[trading-cards]]
+- [[playing-cards]]
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+# Card
+- conveys [[information]]
+- usually [[planar]]
+  - allows for choice of which players to convey important information to
+- can be [[visual]] or [[textual]], but is usually [[both]]
+- usually [[uniform]]
+  - allows [[stacking]] and [[random-generation]]
+- usually [[ordinal]]
+  - allows [[sorting]]
+- usually [[spatial]]
+- [[card-game]]
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+# Elements of Game Design
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+- gameplay
+- player experience
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+# Game Design Frameworks
+- [[mechanics-dynamics-aesthetics]]
+- [[elements-of-game-design]]
+- design in support of an intended player experience
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+# Mechanics, Dynamics, Aesthetics
+
+- [[mechanics]]
+  - the rules & systems that enable the play experience
+- [[dynamics]]
+  - the behavior that TODO
+- [[aesthetics]]
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+# Modding
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+# Positioning Statement
+- target audience
+- frame of reference
+- TODO
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