Concept

Decision information

You might say: what I know before choosing

Decision information is the evidence available before commitment, including the current state, known rules and clues about other players. Uncertainty can be intentional; missing rule explanations are a different problem.

What it does

Makes choices reasoned bets rather than guesses with no learnable basis.

Ask

What can the player know, infer or deliberately discover before acting?

Parts

• Information visibility: Visibility rules determine which relevant facts are public, privately known, hinted at or hidden.
• Prediction depth: Prediction depth is how many linked effects the player must mentally simulate to compare actions.

Connections

• See also: Planning information
• See also: Player mental model

Sources

1. Daniel Cook, Building Tight Game Systems of Cause and Effect, Hidden information; Processing Complexity; Social ComplexityWhat is the most important piece of information the player needs right now?

Use it on your project

teardown-apply: hold "Decision information" (choice-information) from the teardown at https://teardownatlas.com/game-design/ against my project

Paste it into a coding agent that has the teardown skills.

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