Clockwork Game Design is a functional lens, an applicable theory for game design. It details the Clockwork Game Design pattern, which focuses on understanding your system at a low level and building around a core mechanism. You can then use this understanding to prescribe a system for building and refining your rulesets. A game can achieve clarity of purpose by starting with a strong core, then removing elements that conflict with that core while adding elements that support it.
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