Game Design The Art and Science Flint Dille Ground Zero
Productions [email protected] E. Daniel Arey VisionArey
Entertainment [email protected] Slide 2 Rules of the game
Treat us as interactive objects. We will talk about the process of
game design and development, but feel free to interrupt and ask or
tell us what you want to know. Slide 3 Systems all around us GAMES
ARE SYSTEMS Slide 4 Slide 5 Slide 6 Slide 7 Slide 8 How Design
Works Game Design is an iterative process Game Design is an
iterative process It is often not linear It is often not linear It
matters It matters Slide 9 Slide 10 Iterative Process Slide 11 The
Creative Path is Never a Straight One A B Source: Arcadia Kim Slide
12 Games are systems built in layers Formal Elements Dramatic
Elements Dynamic Elements Slide 13 The First Layer Formal Elements
Slide 14 The Seven Formal Elements Players Players Objectives
Objectives Rules Rules Procedures Procedures Resources Resources
Boundaries Boundaries Outcome Outcome Slide 15 The Structure of
Games Games are systems Games are systems Formal Elements Players
Slide 16 Slide 17 The Structure of Games Games are systems Games
are systems Formal Elements Players Objectives Slide 18 Hardest
Question in any game: What does the player do? Slide 19 The
Structure of Games Games are systems Games are systems Formal
Elements Players Objectives Rules Slide 20 What limits the players
actions? Slide 21 The Structure of Games Games are systems Games
are systems Formal Elements Players Objectives Rules Procedures
Slide 22 How does the play proceed? Slide 23 The Structure of Games
Games are systems Games are systems Formal Elements Players
Objectives Rules Procedures Resources Slide 24 What resources are
available to players to accomplish their goals? Slide 25 The
Structure of Games Games are systems Games are systems Formal
Elements Players Objectives Rules Procedures Resources Boundaries
Outcome Slide 26 How will it end? Slide 27 Dramatic Elements of
Games Premise Premise Characters Characters Story/Plot/Dialogue
Story/Plot/Dialogue The Universe The Universe The Franchise The
Franchise Slide 28 Dynamic Systems Setting the rules in motion
produces dynamic effects Setting the rules in motion produces
dynamic effects Emergence Emergence Unintended consequences and
value Unintended consequences and value The play between the rules
The play between the rules Strategies, nuances, fun, exploits
Strategies, nuances, fun, exploits The system SPRINGS to life as it
is put in motion! The system SPRINGS to life as it is put in
motion! Slide 29 Definition of a Game Formal Elements Formal
Elements Dramatic Elements Dramatic Elements Dynamic Elements
Dynamic Elements Inside the magic circle, the rules of games apply.
Inside the magic circle, the rules of games apply. Games are closed
systems Games engage players Games engage players Structured
conflict Uncertain, unequal outcomes Slide 30 A game is A closed,
formal system that engages players in a structured conflict which
resolves in an unequal outcome Slide 31 Of course, not all games
require a winner or loser Slide 32 So what can games do? Slide 33
Training Training What can games do? Slide 34 Embedded Learning
Embedded Learning What can games do? Slide 35 Enhanced Cognition
Enhanced Cognition What can games do? Slide 36 World Sim System
Creation and Testing World Sim System Creation and Testing What can
games do? Slide 37 Public Education and Relations Public Education
and Relations What can games do? Slide 38 First Person Shooters
First Person Shooters Lets talk about a few game genres Slide 39
First Person Shooters First Person Shooters Real Time Strategy Real
Time Strategy Lets talk about a few game genres Slide 40 First
Person Shooters First Person Shooters Real Time Strategy Real Time
Strategy Action Adventure Action Adventure (3 P Removed) (3 P
Removed) Lets talk about a few game genres Slide 41 First Person
Shooters First Person Shooters Real Time Strategy Real Time
Strategy Action Adventure Action Adventure God Games God Games Lets
talk about a few game genres Slide 42 First Person Shooters First
Person Shooters Real Time Strategy Real Time Strategy Action
Adventure Action Adventure God Games God Games Puzzle Games Puzzle
Games Lets talk about a few game genres Slide 43 Lets treat this
meeting as an open Game Development Session What is the market?
What is the market? Slide 44 Lets treat this meeting as an open
Game Development Session What is the market? What is the market?
Whats the objective? Whats the objective? Slide 45 Lets treat this
meeting as an open Game Development Session What is the market?
What is the market? Whats the objective? Whats the objective? What
is the problem you are trying to solve? What is the problem you are
trying to solve? Slide 46 Lets treat this meeting as an open Game
Development Session What is the market? What is the market? Whats
the objective? Whats the objective? What is the problem you are
trying to solve? What is the problem you are trying to solve? What
is the budget? What is the budget? Slide 47 Lets treat this meeting
as an open Game Development Session What is the market? What is the
market? Whats the objective? Whats the objective? What is the
problem you are trying to solve? What is the problem you are trying
to solve? What is the budget? What is the budget? What is the time
frame? What is the time frame? Slide 48 Lets treat this meeting as
an open Game Development Session What is the market? What is the
market? Whats the objective? Whats the objective? What is the
problem you are trying to solve? What is the problem you are trying
to solve? What is the budget? What is the budget? What is the time
frame? What is the time frame? What is the target
platform/technology? What is the target platform/technology? Slide
49 Lets treat this meeting as an open Game Development Session What
is the market? What is the market? Whats the objective? Whats the
objective? What is the problem you are trying to solve? What is the
problem you are trying to solve? What is the budget? What is the
budget? What is the time frame? What is the time frame? What is the
target platform/technology? What is the target platform/technology?
Who are the players? How many? Who are the players? How many? Slide
50 Lets treat this meeting as an open Game Development Session What
is the market? What is the market? Whats the objective? Whats the
objective? What is the problem you are trying to solve? What is the
problem you are trying to solve? What is the budget? What is the
budget? What is the time frame? What is the time frame? What is the
target platform/technology? What is the target platform/technology?
Who are the players? How many? Who are the players? How many?
Duration of gameplay? Scope? Duration of gameplay? Scope? Slide 51
Lets treat this meeting as an open Game Development Session What is
the market? What is the market? Whats the objective? Whats the
objective? What is the problem you are trying to solve? What is the
problem you are trying to solve? What is the budget? What is the
budget? What is the time frame? What is the time frame? What is the
target platform/technology? What is the target platform/technology?
Who are the players? How many? Who are the players? How many?
Duration of gameplay? Scope? Duration of gameplay? Scope? Story,
world, characters? Story, world, characters? Slide 52 Lets treat
this meeting as an open Game Development Session What is the
market? What is the market? Whats the objective? Whats the
objective? What is the problem you are trying to solve? What is the
problem you are trying to solve? What is the budget? What is the
budget? What is the time frame? What is the time frame? What is the
target platform/technology? What is the target platform/technology?
Who are the players? How many? Who are the players? How many?
Duration of gameplay? Scope? Duration of gameplay? Scope? Story,
world, characters? Story, world, characters? MOST importantly, why
will people want to play this game?! MOST importantly, why will
people want to play this game?! Slide 53 Lets Brainstorm
