Game Design Tutorial

The past two days I spent attending the Game Design Tutorial. The focus of which has been MDA

Mechanics
Dynamics
Authentic

Coming from a web design background MDA seemed a bit of rhetoric to me. It focuses on the idea of sticking to theme/goal/and really simplifying out the gameplay mechanic without using words like FUN and GAMEPLAY. This is huge, it was a pleasure to attend this knowing that the thinking is being made more popular because even if it is an obvious, it is often overlooked and skipped.