Game Design Process
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The document outlines the game design process, including concept, production, and design team stages. The concept stage involves developing the initial idea, genre, target audience, and player role. In production, prototypes are created during preproduction, followed by full production iterations. The design team roles include lead designer, game designer, level designer, UI designer, writer, art director, and audio director. Competences needed for game design are also listed, such as imagination, technical skills, analysis, aesthetics, research, writing, and drawing.
Game Design Process
- 1. Game Design Process Martin Sillaots Aug 5 2019 Design of Computer Games #2
- 2. Design Process Stages Ernest Adams: Fundamentals of Game Design
- 3. Concept Stage • General idea • Genre • Target group • Players role • Dreams
- 4. Production Stage • Preproduction – Prototypes • Funding + Publisher • Full production – Iterations
- 5. • Primary gameplay mode • Additional modes • Core mechanics • Character • Game world • Story • Levels Production Elements
- 6. Game Development Process Designer Artist Programmer Animator Sound engineer Tester Manager Ref: Jim Thompson, Barnay Berbank-Green, Nic Cusworth (2007) The computer game design course: principles, practices and techniques for the aspiring game Designer
- 8. Game Design Related Roles • Lead Designer • Game Designer • Level Designer • UI Designer • Writer • Art Director • Audio Director
- 9. Designer Competences • Imagination • Technical • Analytical • Math • Aesthetics • Research • Writing • Drawing • Synthesis
- 10. What game design competences you have? • Project manager • Designer • Artist • Writer • Animator • Composer • Programmer • Marketing manager • Other
- 11. Mission 2 Choose a role
- 12. Role Selection Mission Details • ALL players select preferred role for a design team – Project manager – Designer – Artist – Writer – Programmer – Marketing – Other • 1 XP
Editor's Notes
- #2: Iterative process Testing and design at the same time (endless)
- #3: Concept – general idea Production - elaboration Adjustment – tuning – feature lock – no new ideas
- #4: 1 X Can’t change them later Fundamental decisions Audience – target market? How to sell them? Players role – what to pretend? Activities? Dreams – which dreams game fulfills? – achievements, power, creation - essence of the experience - challenges - actions
- #5: Idea fixed (Confidence is needed) Design and Build and Test at the same time (endless) General -> Specific PM – Scrum - Agile Sprint – short iterations (1-4w) Daily meetings
- #6: Gameplay – challenges, actions (eg car racing) + mode – are they needed? (eg car dunning) Mechanics – game rules – how actions are related to each other? Main character – protagonist – Hero – 1st or 3rd – What to like on it? World – real? Fantasy? Physical, time, emotional, … aspects Levels = character + challenges + actions + mechanics + world + story – first playable level
- #8: Not standardized Based on: Input – abilities of people Output – project needs
- #9: DESIGN Lead Designer – vision keeper, evangelist, PM - 1X Game Designer – game play, core mechanics, BG research, technical W - M Level Designer – 3D modeling, scripting T - M UI Designer – screen layout - 1 Writer – intro, back story, dialogues, cut scenes, NOT technical W – 0,5 (outsource) Art Director – stile, assets (model, texture, animation, …) – 1 [equal to Lead Designer] Audio Director – audio assets (music, ambient, effects), spirit – 0,5 [equal to Lead Designer] Technical Director
- #10: Wish list: Talent + Skills Imagination: Visual Drama Conceptual Lateral thinking – alternatives Technical Programming experience Understand what your platform can / can’t do? Analytical e.g. filter out and eliminate strategies that are unbeatable – game balancing Math Basics Trigonometry – why? Probability e.g. designing module for business simulator Aesthetics Sense of style Basics of composition Color composition Make! Innovate! Don’t copy Research How to study the background e.g. history, … Find references to resources Writing Technical writing – documenting Fiction writing – narrative Dialogue writing – drama, dialogue Drawing Games are heavily visual Synthesis Bring ideas together
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