Game Design Fundamentals
What you'll learn
What is game design and what does a game designer do.Where do game designers get ideas.Core player experience and core gaming loopHow to start designing a game and create new ideasCourse Details
Take a minute and think back to the last few games you have played. Have you experienced any of the following scenarios in the games that you played?
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Steep learning curve and/or not understanding the rules of the game
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Lack of natural flow to get you to next level, action or sequence
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A storyline that doesn’t make sense or leaves you confused
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Getting bored with repetitive actions and lack of depth
If you have ever experienced any of the above while playing a game, you probably didn’t stick around to play that game for very long. All of these elements are just a few examples of why good Game Design is so critical.
Too often brilliant engineers pour their heart and soul into developing amazing tech to run a next generation game. However without paying attention to proper game design their work of art fails to reach success because it cannot retain users.
The purpose of this course is to begin a journey into what Game Design is, the role of the Game Deisgner and start designing your very first game.
Course Contents (10 lessons)
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Game designers have the unique challenge of creating game concepts that delight and entertain players. Elements of challenge and enjoyment are balanced alongside a compelling theme that interests users. The overall package is a game that the players connect with and want to spend time interacting with. - 2.
It is very rare to create a successful game completely on your own. You may be a great game designer, but that is only part of the game creation process. Often it takes a group of people with an array of talents to build a well rounded game. - 3.
Let's dive deeper into the specific role of the game designer and provide more definition of what the day to day might look like. - 4.
Coming up with new game ideas (or ideas for new features or mechanics) is a challenge that all game designers face. This is not rocket science or a secret process. In fact, many people are able to come up with game ideas, they simply don't know it. Let's look at a few ways that game designers come up with new ideas. - 5.
Let's review what we have covered so far and see how we are progressing. - 6.
Starting is often the hardest part of designing a game. Too often we get distracted with small little details of our design and struggle getting our ideas off the ground. - 7.
We are all game designers at heart - but many of us might be a little daunted to actually start designing a game. In this exercise we are going to design a game in literally 5 mins and demonstrate just how straight forward it is to design a game. - 8.
Coming up with new game ideas (or ideas for new features or mechanics) is a challenge that all game designers face. This is not rocket science or a secret process. In fact, many people are able to come up with game ideas, they simply don't know it. - 9.
Within an application development team there is a role known as the Quality Assurance Agent. Often abbreviated simple as a QA agent. The summarized role of a QA agent is to asses the quality of the application, report on issues and assist with debugging of in app problems. - 10.
We are now at the end of the Game Design Fundamentals course. In the 2nd half of the course we focuses on actually starting to create a game idea.
Let's Get Started on the First Lesson!
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