Emergent gameplay
What is emergent gameplay? When simple game systems combine into situations nobody scripted, in games like Deus Ex, Minecraft and EVE Online.
Emergent gameplay is what happens when relatively simple game systems interact and produce complex situations the designers did not script, or when players find uses for the systems that the designers never planned. It is a defining aim of the immersive sim.
Examples
Each game links to the source that describes it using the mechanic.
- Deus Ex
- EVE Online
- Minecraft
- Left 4 Dead, made with Source
- System Shock
Related terms: Rocket jumping, Procedural generation, Sequence breaking.
Genres: Immersive sim, Survival crafting.
Sources
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- Emergent gameplay — Wikipedia
- Glossary of video game terms — Wikipedia