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• John Feil and Marc Scattergood, Beginning Game
  Level Design, Thomson 2005, ISBN 1592004342
• Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris, Game
  Architecture and Design A New Edition, New
  Riders Games 2004, ISBN 0735713634
• Tracy Fullerton, Christopher Swain and Steven
  Hoffman, Game Design Workshop Designing,
  Prototyping and Playtesting Games, CMP Books
  2004. ISBN 1578202221
• Richard Rouse, Game Design Theory and Practice
  (2nd Edition), Wordware 2001, ISBN 1556229127
• Lee Sheldon, Character Development and
  Storytelling for Games, Thomson, ISBN
  1-59200-353-2

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• Internet
• Staffan Bjork, Game Design.
• http//www.sloperama.com/
• Gamasutra
• wikipedia
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• Slide Sheets
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• G A M E D E S I G N

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GameDesign????????????
Game Mechanics ???????
Visual Arts ????????
Production Process ?????????????
Programming ???????????????
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http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_design
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Game Mechanics ???????
Game Mechanics / Game Play ???????/??????????????
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Game Design

• Game design is the core of a game
• Still under developed area
• Make clear vision of a game for communicate with
  team (programmer/artist/project manager/funding)
• bad design gt bad game (absolutely) !
• good design gt good game ! (more factors)

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Game Designer

• A game designer is a person who designs games.
  The term can refer to a person who designs video
  games, or one who designs traditional games such
  as board games.

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Game Making Process
funding
market research
requirements
Idea
Design Document
pitching
limitations
GameDesigner
fun
feel
packaging
Research Development
Release
Testing
quality
bug
customer support
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The role of the Game Designer

• The game designer envisions how a game will work
  during play. He/She creates the objectives,
  rules, and procedures, thinks up the dramatic
  premise and gives it life, and is responsible for
  planning everything necessary to create a
  compelling player experience.

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Design Process
involve
idea/requirements/fun
Target Group/facts /fiction
analyse
implement"able" idea
require more data?
document prototype
evaluate
satisfy
Game Design Document
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pre-history game designer

• Early in the history of video games, game
  designers were often the lead programmer or the
  only programmer for a game (1970)
• As games became more complex and computers and
  consoles became more powerful (allowing more
  features), the job of the game designer became a
  separate function. gt Lead Programmer Game
  Designer

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be a game designer

• The ideas are easy, the writing is the hard part.
• The most challenging position
• The most impact of a game
• Many people want to be
• Many people have come and failed
• It is hard to success

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to be a good game designer

• Good writing skill/ good telling story/ good
  communication
• Good ability to express dream to reality
• Know limitation (hardware/ software /technic/
  people /funding /timing/ resources)
• Know game target group/audience
• Be leader
• Have some own good idea
• Know/play good games
• Experience!

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"Fun"damentals of game design

• FUN games are about one thing entertaining
  people, games are supposed to be fun.
• AUDIENCE Do for many people enjoy game, not just
  one or two.
• GENRE Do what people expect from game genre.
• KNOW YOUR SELF You need to know what you think
  is FUN about games.

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Real Game Designer (who knows?)
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Real Game Designer (who knows?)
slides from Staffan Bjork
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Will Wright

• Maxis, Inc.
• Raid on Bungling Bay, 1984
• SimCity, 1989
• SimAnt, 1991
• The Sims, 2000
• The Sims Online, 2002
• SimCity 4, 2003
• The Sims 2, 2004

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Will Wright on Design

• Making dynamic models
• put the player in the design role
• large solution space -gt much stronger feeling
  of empathy
• Creates interactive toys

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Shigeru Miyamoto

• Donkey Kong, 1981
• Super Mario Bros., 1985
• Super Mario 64, 1996
• The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time, 1998
• The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, 2000
• Pikmin, 2001
• Super Mario Sunshine, 2002

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Shigeru Miyamoto on Design

• "A delayed game is eventually good, a bad game
  is bad forever
• Inspiration from childhood memories
• Exploring wilderness and caves (Zelda)
• Attacked by dog on chain (Chain Chomp)

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Sid Meier

• Solo Fight, 1984
• Sid Meiers Pirates!, 1987
• Railroad Tycoon, 1990
• Civilization, 1991
• Colonization, 1994
• Sid Meiers Gettyburg!, 1997
• Sid Meiers Alpha Centauri, 1999
• Civilization IV, 2005

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Sid Meier on Design

• be able to play the game and understand it as
  quickly as possible
• If a player feels there is something they would
  like to do that the game is not letting them do
  then that is a failure of the game
• a series of interesting choices
• most acclaimed games were inspired
  by board games designed by
  Francis Tresham vf
• 1829 (Railroad Tycoon)
• Civilization (Civilization)
• Spanish Main (Pirates!) maybe
• one more turn

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Chris Crawford

• Eastern Front (1941), 1981
• Balance of Power, 1985
• Balance of the Planet, 1990
• Storytron (Erasmatron), 1992-2006?
• Suggested Reading
• Crawford, C. The Art of Computer Game Design,
  1992.
• Crawford, C. The Art of Interactive Design, 2002.
• Crawford, C. Chris Crawford on Game Design, 2003.

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Chris Crawford on Design

• Its easier to learn from turkeys than from
  masterworks
• Accept full moral responsibility for the games
  you design
• Always delete clever ideas that dont add to the
  design
• The logic of the game dominates pick a topic to
  fit it
• Lose the storyboards
• Conceptualize your design in terms of its
  challenge, not its topic
• Keep the player on the razor edge of failure,
  but dont let him fall
• Those who would build the future must
  understand the past

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Peter Molyneux

• Populous, 1989
• Powermonger, 1990
• Theme Park, 1994
• Magic Carpet, 1994
• Syndicate, 1993
• Dungeon Keeper, 1997
• Black White, 2001
• Fable, 2004
• The Movies, 2005
• Black White 2, 2005

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Peter Molyneux on Design

• interfaces are paramount
• designing a game in not thinking up a storyline
  but about what the player does and sees while
  playing your idea.
• Next time we will do it right
• Theres no democracy in game design, just
  inspiration
• Idea has to come from one person
• Focus on elements that cannot be seen elsewhere
• Make it like game X but better does not work
• writing design documents is stupid
• But Fable IIs design document weighs in
  at 1,000 pages

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Gary Gygax

• Dungeons Dragons, 1974
• Advanced Dungeons Dragons, 1977
• Mythus, 1992
• Lejandary Adventures, 1999
• Suggested Reading
• Dear, William C. The Dungeon Master The
  Disappearance of James Dallas Egbert III

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Gary Gygax on Design

• On Games
• interesting diversion from everyday life
• chance to excel
• and if you're playing in good company you
  don't even mind if you lose because you had the
  enjoyment of the company during the course of the
  game
• On Dungeons Dragons
• Variation on medieval small battles because
  the guys got tired playing the original
• Even when you're playing miniatures,
  there's still some role-playing aspect

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Warren Robinett

• Adventure, 1978
• Part was spun-off as superman game
• First Easter Egg

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Roberta Williams

• Kings Quest I, 1984
• Kings Quest II, 1985
• Kings Quest Mask of Eternity, 1998

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Janet Jensen

• Gabriel Knight Series
• Sins of the Fathers, 1993
• The Beast Within, 1999
• Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned, 1999

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Steve Jackson

• Ogre, 1977
• Car Wars, 1981
• Illuminati, 1983
• Toon, 1984
• GURPS, 1986
• Illuminati New World Order, 1997
• Suggested Reading
• Schuessler, N. Jackson, S. Game Design Volume
  1 Theory and Practice, 2005 (1981)

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Steve Jackson on Design

• the more factors are explicit the less
  playable the game will become
• Dont just proofread PLAY
• There is no excuse for failure to playtest a
  design thoroughly before putting it on the
  market it indicates either gross ignorance,
  total egotism, or an absolute lack of interest in
  giving the gamer his moneys worth.
• After playtesting, do blindtest, new playtesters
  are exposed to the game without the
  benefit of advice from the designer or
  other experienced players.
• After blindtesting, do proof playtesting, an
  extra stage of blindtesting and
  another round of designer
  playtesting using only proof
  copies of the finished rules, maps, and charts.

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Richard Garriott

• Ultima I The First Age of Darkness, 1981
• Ultima II The Revenge of the Enchantress, 1982
• Ultima IV Quest of the Avatar, 1985
• Autoduel, 1985
• Ogre, 1986
• Ultima VIII Pagan, 1994
• Ultima Online, 1997
• City of Heroes, 2004
• City of Villians, 2005
• Tabula Rasa, 2007
• Suggested Reading
• King, B. Borland, J. Dungeons and Dreamers
  The Rise of Computer Game Culture from Geek to
  Chic

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Raph Koster

• LegendMUD
• Ultima Online, 1997
• Star Wars Galaxies, 2003
• EverQuest II, 2004
• Suggested Reading
• Koster, R. A Theory of Fun for Game
  Design, 2004.

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Raph Koster on Design

• Fun is "the act of mastering a problem mentally
• Games are teaching patterns
• Create a flow experience
• About UO
• players don't care about what you wanted there,
  about what the dreams were - they only care about
  what they have in front of them, and then they
  proceed to do things you never imagined
• About SWG
• launched too early from a game design point of
  view
• most systems in there were first-pass at best
• A large chunk of the blame lies with me, for
  being over-ambitious with the design

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Greg Costikyan

• Toon, 1984
• Paranoia, 1984
• Star Wars The roleplaying game, 1987
• Paranoia XP, 2004
• Suggested Reading
• Costikyan, G. I have no words and I must Design,
  Interactive Fantasy magazine, 1994.

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Grey Costikyan on Design

• Games GROW through innovation. Innovation
  creates new game styles but its over now.
• Achieving a goal is meaningless if it comes
  without work, if there is no opposition
• Whenever multiple players are involved, games
  are strengthened if they permit, and encourage,
  diplomacy
• How can you tell a good game from a bad
  one? The test is still in the playing

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Ken Rolston

• Paranoia, 1984
• The Lost Island of Castanamir (DD), 1984
• River of Cradles (Runequest), 1992
• Paranoia, 5th ed., 1995
• Something Rotten in Kislev (WFRP), 1999
• Elder Scrolls III Tribunal, 2002
• Elder Scrolls IV Oblivion, 2006
• About retiring
• and play stupid paper-and-pencil RPGs
• joined Big Huge Games to do a new RPG

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John Carmack

• Commander Keen, 1990
• Wolfenstein 3D, 1992
• Doom, 1993
• Quake, 1996
• Doom 3, 2005
• Suggested Reading
• Kushner, D. Masters of Doom How Two Guys
  Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture,
  Random House

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John Romero

• Scout Search, 1984
• Commander Keen, 1990
• Wolfenstein 3D, 1992
• Doom, 1993
• Heretic, 1994
• HeXen, 1995
• Quake, 1996
• Daikatana, 2000
• Hyperspace Delivery Boy, 2001
• Area 51, 2005
• Gauntlet Seven Sorrows, 2005

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John Romero on Design

• We developed our games in a pretty
  non-disciplined and non-organized way because so
  much of it was RD

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Warren Spector

• Toon, 1984
• Car Wars, Ogre, Illuminati
• ADD, DMs guide, 2nd ed., 1989
• GURPs, 3rd ed. 1992
• Send in the Clones (Paranoia), 1985
• Underword The Stygian Abuss, 1991
• Ultima VII, Part 2, Serpent Isle, 1993
• System Shock, 1994
• Thief The Dark Project, 1999
• Deus Ex, 2000

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Warren Spector on Design

• Learn to program and get as broad-based an
  education as you can
• Become an effective communicator
• Make games
• giving players power to make choices enhanced
  the gameplay experience
• attaching consequences to those choices made the
  experience even more powerful
• Gargoyle episode
• Sequals Adaptations Get used to it!
• Safe bets
• Free marketing
• Fan buy-in
• cool sandboxes to play in

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Sandy Petersen

• Call of Cthulhu, 1981
• Runequest, 3rd ed., 1985
• Ghostbusters A Frightfully Cheerful Roleplaying
  Game, 1986
• DOOM, 1993
• Quake, 1996
• Age of Empires The Age of Kings, 1999
• Call of Cthulhu, 2004
• Worked on
• Civilization
• Sid Meiers Pirates!

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Sandy Petersen on Design

• Be familiar with all types of games, not just
  computer games

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Frederick Raynal

• Alone in the Dark, 1992
• Infogrames took over creative control
• Added Cthulhu mythos
• Little Big Adventure, 1995
• Little Big Adventure 2, 1997

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Gabe Newell Mike Harrington

• Half-Life, 1998
• Half-Life 2, 2004
• Suggested Reading
• Valve. Half-Life2 Raising the Bar

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Mihn Le Jess Cliffe

• Counter-Strike, 1999
• Counter-Strike source, 2004

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Bill Roper

• Warcraft Orcs and Humans
• Warcraft II Tides of Darkness
• Warcraft III Reign of Chaos
• Starcraft
• Diablo
• Diablo II
• HellGate London

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Bill Roper on Design

• You cant get good at making games unless you
  make games
• tear apart boardgames to prototype your ideas
• most importantly, never stop playing

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Richard Garfield

• RoboRally, 1994
• Magic The Gathering, 1994
• The Great Dalmuti, 1995

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Marc LeBlanc

• Ultima Underworld II, 1993
• System Shock, 1994
• Thief, 1998
• Suggested Reading
• Online articles on Mechanics,
  Dynamics, Aesthetics

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Marc LeBlanc on Design

• Have a critical eye for games
• Learn to program
• Play lots of games
• Design the game for millions of people, not
  for you

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Dr. Ray Muzyka

• Baldurs Gate, 1998
• MDK2, 2000
• Baldurs Gate II, 2000
• Neverwinter Nights, 2002
• Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic, 2003
• Based upon the roleplaying game (d20 version)
• Jade Empire, 2005
• Neverwinter Nights, 2006

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Dr. Ray Muzyka on Design

• Be passionate, but self-critical
• never compromise on quality, but do realize that
  there is a point of diminishing returns

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Bruce C. Shelley

• Railroad Tycoon
• Civilization
• Age of Empires

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Bruce C. Shelley on Design

• Play a lot of games and analyze them
• Think in terms of entertaining a large audience,
  not a small one
• it is okay, even encouraged, to borrow from
  great games, but be different at the vision level
  and innovative at the gameplay level

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Starr Long

• Ultima Online
• Bioforge
• Wing Commander Privateer
• Ultima Underworld 2
• Tabula Rasa

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Starr Long on Design

• play every game you possibly can
• then analyze them carefully
• finding inspiration from outside of games is
  extremely important
• if you are not having fun making your game, then
  your customers will not have fun playing it

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Lorne Lanning

• Oddworld Abes Oddysee
• Oddworld Abes Exodus
• Oddworld Munchs Oddysee

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Lorne Lanning on Design

• The best ideas will not come from areas that
  have nothing to do with games

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Scott Miller on Design

• Founder 3DREALMS
• Learn from other games and designers, but do not
  copy them.
• must invent something unique and compelling (one
  without the other in not enough)

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Josh Holmes

• Def Jam Vendetta
• NBA Street
• NBA Live 98, 99, 2000

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Josh Holmes on Design

• Think of the consumer
• Fun first
• whenever you have a choice between realism and
  fun, go with fun
• Always strive for balance
• Think Big
• Remember Pacing
• Play Bad Games
• Look outside of games

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Ron Gilbert

• Maniac Mansion, 1987
• The Secret of Monkey Island, 1990

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Chris Taylor

• Founded Gas Powered Games
• Dungeon Siege
• Total Annihilation

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Swedish Game Designers

• Dan Glimne
• Drakborgen
• Martin Walfisz
• Ground Control
• Andreas Roman
• Midtown Madness 3
• (Battlefield Modern Combat)
• Mikael Emtinger
• GTR
• Tom Söderlund
• Botfighters

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Leftovers

• James Ernest (see book page 76-77)
• Don Daglow (see book page 104-105)
• Rob Daviau (see book page 232-233)
• Graeme Bayless (see book page 243-246)
• Brian Hersch (see book page 276-277)
• David Perry (see book page 304-305)
• Richard Hilleman (see book page 324-325)
• Matt Firor (see book page 332-333)
• Troy Dunniway (see book page 350-351)
• Stan Chow (see book page 354-355)
• Thai?

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