Chris Crawford

Chris Crawford; 

PC diversion fashioner Chris Crawford, organizer of The Journal of Computer Game Design, has endeavored to characterize the term game[8] utilizing a progression of polarities: 

Innovative expression is craftsmanship if made for its own magnificence, and diversion if profited. 

A bit of diversion is a toy on the off chance that it is intuitive. Motion pictures and books are refered to as cases of non-intelligent diversion. 

On the off chance that no objectives are related with a toy, it is a toy. (Crawford takes note of that by his definition, (an) a toy can turn into a diversion component if the player makes up standards, and (b) The Sims and SimCity are toys, not amusements.) If it has objectives, a toy is a test. 

On the off chance that a test has no "dynamic operator against whom you contend," it is a perplex; if there is one, it is a contention. (Crawford concedes this is a subjective test. Computer games with observably algorithmic counterfeit consciousness can be played as riddles; these incorporate the examples used to avoid apparitions in Pac-Man.) 

At last, if the player can just beat the adversary, yet not assault them to meddle with their execution, the contention is an opposition. (Rivalries incorporate hustling and figure skating.) However, in the event that assaults are permitted, then the contention qualifies as a diversion. 

Crawford's definition may accordingly be rendered as[original research?]: an intuitive, objective arranged movement profited, with dynamic operators to play against, in which players (counting dynamic specialists) can meddle with each other.