Game mechanics are a distinct set of rules or methods that design the outcome of interactions within the game, thus providing gameplay. There is an input, a process and an output. Game mechanics also involves the the users response to collections of these mechanics.

“The term ‘game mechanic’ doesn’t appear in the piece but it underlies the argument throughout, explaining how points that a player can spend on advantages like ‘talent,’ ‘wealth,’ ‘charisma,’ and ‘intelligence’ are distributed by ‘the computer,’ and that players must ‘deal with them,’ just like they must in real life. This argument makes racism and sexism seem socially neutral, mechanical, structural, and not a personal act of aggression or oppression perpetrated upon one peron by another.” -Lisa Nakamura

• Game mechanics allows gamers to understand the gaming world as constructed
• Nothing should be taken personally
• Many male gamers cannot tolerate the feeling of being blamed for their privilege
• Game mechanics allows them to not view themselves as privileged, and therefore blameless

“Explaining race and gender as a structural advantage, an aspect of a made environment that was designed to reward some types and punish others, lets white male readers hold themselves blameless for their own advantages.”