Game Design: Theory & Practice- P14 potx

... a Game Designer? By this point it should be obvious what a game designer does: she determines what the nature of the gameplay is by creating the game s design. The terms game designer” and game ... then, is game design? Having defined what exactly I mean when I refer to gameplay, the notion of game design is quite easily explained: the game design is what determines the form of t...

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... given game because of one motivating factor or another, he will have expectations for the game itself. Beyond the game not crashing and looking reasonably pretty, players have certain gameplay ... playing the game. You get pretty bored with the beginning of the game after a while. In one sense you are putting that depth in the game to keep yourself interested in writing this game....

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... easily understand a game, so that by the end of his very first game he had a good sense of how the game worked and what was necessary for success. Second, a player’s game, even the game of an expert, ... an unwinnable game makes every game a defeat for the player. Every game ends with the player’s death, and hence is a kind of tragedy. Having an unwinnable game also necessitat...

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... develop this game. Not every team can develop every type of game. A team that has been mak - ing sports games for years, likes working on sports games, and knows how to make a sports game fun is ... would irreparably weaken the game. You do not need to include the setting of your game if that is not inherent to the actual focus of the game. It may not matter if your game has a fant...

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... any of your games are underappreciated? As a game designer, no, I do not feel I have any games that were under - appreciated. If the game design works, then the gameplay is fun and the game sells. As ... is just a twist on game xxx with a little of game zzz.” For the record, many of the old designs were based on previous game ideas. Remember, Asteroids came from a previous game...

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... the course of the game. Another similarity between Tetris and action games that further distinguishes it from other puzzle games is the variety of gameplay situations Tetris can create: each game a player ... the game. What is it about Tetris that makes the game immune to criticism? It would appear something about the game s simplicity and clearness of design vision make even the most...

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... game. Goals of Game AI Players have different expectations of the AI they find in different types of games. Players do not expect much of the AI in an arcade game like Centipede or a puzzle game ... fascinating Game Developer’s Conference talk “Who Buried Paul?” Brian Moriarty discussed the concept of “constellation” in games. This theory is of particular relevance to game AI. R...

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... adventure games, there will be a growing empha - sis on story over puzzles, games and game- worlds will get larger, there will be more realistic, believable characters in adventure games, many ... Meretzky Do you have a particular starting point when creating a new game? Varies from game to game. AMFV started with the game s theme/message. Sor - cerer started with the complex time trav...

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... dreaded FMV game, such as The 7th Guest. Typically, these games presented long FMV clips with mini-games between them, resulting in prod - ucts that were more movies than games. In these games the ... a hero. Loom as an Adventure Game For all of its strengths, Loom is still an adventure game, and indeed a fairly linear one. Adventure games are the genre of computer games most concerned wi...

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... the game that func- tions just like you want it to play in the final game. In many game genres this means one particular level of the game. You may think you have all of the components of your gameplay ... collapse discredited video games, but not really computer games as much. Unfortunately, at the time, most computer games were just copies of video games. Hence, many computer game c...

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... concept documents do Chapter 15: Game Development Documentation 293 I do it on the Mac maybe I can call it an iGame. But I don’t dare call it a computer game or a video game. Why do you think facial ... your game is that people are usually playing your game not for the dialog, but for the gameplay. If they had wanted to watch a movie, they would have done so. Instead they booted up...

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... allowed to do in the game and how the game is played. By describing what sort of actions the player can perform, the Game Mechanics section defines the game itself. As a result the Game Mechanics section ... interesting? Game Progression Depending on the nature of the game, the Game Progression section may well turn out to be the longest in the design document. This is where th...

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... the game is the save -game system you used. Players never actually save their game, but Last Express auto - matically remembers everything they do, and they can “rewind” to any point in their game ... complaint one could have about Jordan Mechner’s work in com - puter games is that he has not made more games. Each of the games he has designed and spearheaded—Karateka, Prince of Persia,...

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... game players, as role-playing game players, or as adventure game players. I never shopped for games that way, but I guess over a period of a few years there in the early ’90s, even computer game publications ... suggesting into the game, not ones that the game demands. This abdicates authorship to the player more than a goal-oriented game ever could. For instance, every time some...

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... exception of racing games, sports games typically provide a very non-linear flow to their gameplay. The flow of a basketball game s levels more closely resembles a death-match or strategy game s levels ... time. In a racing game, a level would be one of the tracks available in the game. In a sports game, say baseball, the levels would be the different stadiums featured in the game. Her...

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