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Spelunky: verbs and traits

In order to learn more about emergence, I analysed the verbs and object traits in Spelunky.

Verbs

I think this gets most of them. All the verbs in the fiction (throw, jump, hit etc) are domain-specific versions of these.

• Push
• Overlap
• Move
• Destroy
• Trigger
• Change shape
• Create
• Join
• Reveal

Traits

• Dimensions
• Amount of health
• Mass
• Is destructible
• Bounciness
• Can be acted upon by item x
• Has property (is frozen, is sticky etc.)

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