Cognitive Capacity

Capacitas cognitive · medium · slow

Cognitive Capacity captures what players can process mentally – how much abstraction, memory and attention a game presupposes.

Design question – What can your players process mentally – how much abstraction, memory and attention does your game presuppose?

Reference example – Tetris: as the speed rises, there is less and less time to plan the next piece. Codenames: keeping several words in mind at once and linking them with one clue.