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Minimalist game design was introduced a decade ago as a general designprinciple with a list of key properties for minimalist games: basic controls,simple but aesthetically pleasing visuals, interesting player choices with vastpossibility spaces, and sounds that resonate with the design. In this paper, wepresent an experiment we did to explore minimalism in games using a bottom-upapproach. We invited a small group of professional game designers and a largergroup of game design students to participate in a seminal experiment onminimalism in game design. We started from the most basic game elements: onepixel and one key which provide the least amount of information we can displayand reasonably the most elementary action players can perform. We designed agame that starts with a black pixel and asks players to press a key when thepixel turns white. This minimal game, almost a Skinner box, captures theessential elements of the mechanics of games like "The Impossible Game," whichasks players to do nothing more than press a key at the right moment. Wepresented this game concept to the professional game designers and challengedthem to create other games with the least amount of player interaction anddisplayed information. We did not specify any constraints (as usually done inother contexts) and left them free to express their view of minimalistic gamedesign. We repeated the experiment with 100+ students attending a master-levelcourse on video game design and development at our institution. We thenanalyzed the creations of the two groups, discussing the idea of minimalisticdesign that emerges from the submitted game concepts.

One Pixel, One Interaction, One Game: An Experiment in Minimalist Game Design