Game Design: Love for the MDA Framework

Let’s talk about the MDA framework, and why it should be part of your game design world.

MDA: A Formal Approach to Game Design and Game Research is an academic paper written by Hunicke, LeBlanc, and Zubek in 2001. It puts forth an analytical model that breaks a game’s design into discrete layers. These layers are often helpful in separating a game’s complexity into pieces that can be understood…