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... 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...
Game Design: Theory & Practice- P21 pdf
... capitalists, 340
Vezza, Al, 187
video game crash, 197, 269-270
video games vs. computer games, 197, 269-270,
279-280
Video Pinball, 97-98, 120
Vietnam, 273, 278
view of game- world, 141-142, 307-308, ... 132-136, 145, 405
women gamers, 101-102
younger gamers, 184
playing experience, 482
“playing it in my mind,” 99
playing other games, 486
playing pieces, 26-27
playing the game, 35-36, 250...