The main reason for creating a new game mechanic can be described as the need to give the player a novel experience. We learned how the game vision gives us designers a clear direction to follow in order to develop our games. By visualizing the experience we want our players to have, we are taking the first step into the conceptualization of a new game mechanic.
Let's see a practical example.
Modern First Person Shooter (FPS) games are very different from what we used to play in the 80s and the 90s. When we immersed ourselves in a frenetic shooting game all we needed were some interesting enemies, a few different weapons, and just a bunch of basic controls, such as move and shoot.
In a quest for better immersion, game designers started to ask questions like: "How can we make an FPS more realistic?", "How can we make shooting...
