Game Design Pattern Workshop

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Game Design Pattern Workshop 1

• Staffan Björk, Sus Lundgren, Tobias Rydenhag
• PLAY, Interactive Institute
• Jussi Holopainen
• Nokia Research Center

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Background

• Difficult to design games
• Especially for new platforms
• Part of the Game Design Pattern project
• Nokia PLAY
• Develop methods for designing and analyzing games
  in a more structured fashion
• Main work effort put into creating a number of
  workshops exploring the use a game design patterns

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Goal of this workshop

• Introduction to game design patterns
• Teach methods for how one can find, develop and
  describe patterns
• Create protogames to get experience of working
  applied with patterns
• Later workshops will focus more on creating
  actual games and use our pattern collection

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Schedule day 1

• 0900 Introduction
• 0915 Presentation of the workshop
• 0930 Lecture I Introduction to patterns
• 1030 Break
• 1045 Lecture II Genesis of a pattern and
  pattern examples
• 1200 Lunch
• 1300 Group exercise I pattern candidate
  harvesting
• 1500 Break
• 1515 Group exercise II pattern candidate
  analysis
• 1630 Presentation of identified patterns
• 1715 End of day
• 1900 Dinner

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Schedule day 2

• 0900 Wrap-up from previous day
• 0915 Presentation of the goals for the day
• 0930 Group exercise III creation of protogames
• 1145 Presentation of protogames
• 1215 Lunch
• 1300 Group exercise IV pattern documentation
• 1430 Presentation of documented patterns
• 1500 Group exercise V game analysis of board
  games
• 1900 Dinner