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1. 1 2023-12-09T01:01:45+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d Warnings show up letting the player know what they should improve on; however, these warnings do not actually stop the player from doing anything Eric Han 1 plain 2023-12-09T01:01:45+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d
2. 1 2023-12-09T01:02:05+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d Economic needs must be balanced with environmental Eric Han 1 plain 2023-12-09T01:02:05+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d
3. 1 2023-12-09T01:02:25+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d Other nearby blocks are already developed Eric Han 1 plain 2023-12-09T01:02:25+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d
4. 1 2023-12-09T01:01:09+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d The wide empty space at the beginning emphasizes the freedom of the player to create anything they want Eric Han 1 plain 2023-12-09T01:01:09+00:00 Eric Han 1902f814ec83046035ae20410a4a2ad982b70e1d

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• 1 2023-12-08T00:05:16+00:00 Urban Climate Architect 8 plain 2023-12-09T00:50:57+00:00 In the work "Urban Climate Architect", the player must design a city in blocks, where each block can be a multitude of things -- an office building, a factory, a forest, an apartment, etc. In the "Agency" chapter of Hamlet on the Holodeck, Murray writes, "Some games, like chess, can have relatively few or infrequent actions but a high degree of agency, since the actions are highly autonomous, selected from a large range of possible choices, and wholly determine the course of the game"(Murray 127). The player will quickly realize that "Urban Climate Architect" is one of these games, as though there is an overarching objective, the player has the freedom to design the city however they want without the game actually stopping them even if the choices contradict said objective. 
  
  As mentioned, the player is not confined to any kind of progression or objective other than 'fill up the squares however you like' -- although there are warnings about things like employment or CO2 levels, nothing stops the player from making choices like filling the whole board with factories. This absolute agency allows the player to test their own genuine perceptions (of, for example, what a good ratio of green space to apartment space is in a city) and then have those perceptions quite literally "evaluated", allowing them to dynamically learn based on their initial perceptions.