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Jul 5, 2015 at 12:36	comment	added	DMGregory♦		@Frontend you'll find every designer or game theorist has their own taxonomy of mechanics - there's no one universal specification. All you can do is keep reading until you find one you like, and that works for your game design process.
Jul 5, 2015 at 12:10	comment	added	FrontEnd		Yes I was asking in regards to game development specifically. Are there some more generally accepted categories of game mechanics in game development? In the gamification link above there are several categories for game mechanics; however for game development the only similar list I could find was on wikipedia, which I am a little sceptical of its accuracy. Also on the wikipedia page, victory conditions are listed separately to game mechanics whereas I would have thought that victory conditions were a game mechanic in themselves.
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