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    Game Design Fundamentals

    Game Design Basics Workshop

    Miikka Junnila
    @aalto.fi

    Why Game Design Basics?


    The aim of the course is to introduce the basic concepts
    and practice of game design
    If you want to work in the games industry, whatever role
    you take in a game company, understanding what the
    company is doing is crucial
    Understanding what games are about is a useful thing
    also outside the traditional games industry, as playful
    interaction can be something to strive for also outside
    actual games

    Schedule

    Monday

    Tuesday

    Playing yesterdays exercise


    Lecture: Decisions
    Exercise

    Friday

    Playing yesterdays exercise


    Lecture: Chance and skill
    Exercise

    Thursday

    Playing yesterdays exercise


    Lecture: What is game design?
    Exercise

    Wednesday

    Lecture: Game Design fundamental concepts


    Playing games
    Exercise

    Playing yesterdays exercise


    Wrapup & feedback

    10.1.2014 Deadline for post-mortems

    Summary of this lecture


    How I became a game designer?
    Game Design fundamental concepts
    Examples

    How I became a game designer

    How I became a game designer

    How I became a game designer?

    Semantic Computing

    What is a game?

    Game Design Fundamental Concepts

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Game Design Fundamental Concepts

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Game Design Fundamental Concepts

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Game Design Fundamental Concepts

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Game Design Fundamental Concepts

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Game Design Fundamental Concepts

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    More about game definitions: Half-Real

    Interactivity

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Introducing myself as a game designer

    Rules

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Tear

    Meaning

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    MoiPal One of our TV ads


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3KLzxRGvac

    MoiBand

    Challenge

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Goals

    A game is an interactive structure of endogeneous


    meaning that requires players to struggle towards a goal.
    Greg Costikyan

    Conclusion
    As game designers, we need to focus on

    Interactivity
    Rules
    Meaning
    Challenge
    Goals

    Conclusion

    And of course be ready to experiment to extend the


    boundaries of games, while keeping these basics in mind!

    Links & Resources


    Games you can try
    Snowman in Hell: http://mlab.uiah.fi/snowman
    Tear: From any supermarket close to you
    Veden varassa: Ask me

    Books & articles mentioned


    Greg Costikyan: I Have No Mouth And I Must Design:
    http://www.digra.org/dl/db/05164.51146.pdf
    Johan Huizinga: Homo Ludens
    Jesper Juul: Half-Real
    Jesse Schell: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
    Aki Jrvinen: Games Without Frontiers:
    http://acta.uta.fi/english/teos.php?id=11046
    Drachen & Canossa: Towards Gameplay Analysis via Gameplay Metrics:
    http://andersdrachen.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/p202-drachen.pdf

    http://artofgamedesign.com/cards/

    Questions, comments?

    Time to play!
    We will play some games now
    Settlers of Catan
    Board game

    Carcassonne
    Board game

    Today I die
    http://www.ludomancy.com/games/today.php?lang=en

    Journey
    PS3

    Meat Boy
    http://www.kongregate.com/games/Edmund/meat-boy

    Plants vs. Zombies


    Steam

    The End
    http://www.playtheend.com/game

    Discussion
    Did you like the games?
    Why? Why not?
    Any thoughts on the five themes of today?

    Interactivity
    Rules
    Meaning
    Challenge
    Goals

    Exercise 1
    Race to end as the goal of the game
    2-4 players
    Progressing the game from A to B
    Victory condition: who reaches B first wins

    As a game designer you:


    Figure out the theme
    The board/cards/tokens etc.
    The mechanics

    Exercise 1 suggested process


    Determine a theme and a goal
    Identify mechanics
    Start simple

    how to create a track?


    How to progress? Dice? Cards?
    Find conflict between players
    Remember risk/reward

    Playtest, iterate
    Create deliverable, prepare to present the game (5 min
    presentation & demo game)

    I encourage you to save your files (rules and stuff) somewhere where
    you can find them later too, and take a picture of boards and cards and
    stuff so that you can return to the game. Also share these files with
    each other in the groups

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