Blog Week 9

Unfortunately, I have not gotten a chance to play my game at all this week. But, because we have been playing these games for the entire semester, I am confident in my abilities to write a productive blog with a new principle of the week. Here it goes.

Principle of the week: 26) Bottom-up Basic Skills Principle.
Basic skills are not learned in isolation or out of context; rather, what counts as a basic skill is discovered bottom up by engaging in more and more of the game/domain or games/domains like it. Basic skills are genre elements of a given type of game/domain.

I think this principle pretty much speaks for itself. It says that basic skills are discovered from the beginning and you can amplify those skills by engaging more and more in the game. This applies perfectly to NHL 10, and any sports game really. At the beginning of the game, you only really know how to pass and shoot. But as you continue to play, you begin to learn new moves, diving checks, slap shots, directed shots, skip passes, etc... So by continuing to play the game, in its own domain, you obviously learn the basic skills early in the game, but then you continue to learn more advanced skills as you play. (bottom-up)