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ABOUT ME
LUCA GALLI
Director of Production – Moonsubmarine ltd
Shushing Fairy
Ph.D. - Politecnico di Milano
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• BACKGROUND & INTERESTS
• Robotics & Artificial Intelligence
• Game Design
• Crowdsourcing e Human Computation
Goal of this course is simple: know each other, share a passion and learn how to bring it on!
Make (possibly good) games!
WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT
• This is course is highly experimental. It will be a crash course about game design and (video) game development for hobbysts. We will try to cover as much as possible but the only thing that fuels your skills will be your effort and your passion to discover more and more. Highly experimental means that you will actually have to DO STUFF to learn something.
• Besides some lessons, the course WILL BE TECHNICAL.This means that I will NOT teach the basics of programming, that takes entire university courses to be accomplished.
• This does not mean that you will not be able to reach your goal: you will learn how to refine ideas and mechanics for boardgames that could be turned even by non-programmers to real videogames with just a bit of effort and the right tools.
• Every week on the website the seminars will be listed with one of three different difficulty level:
• EASY: Open to everyone, no technical skills required
• MEDIUM: Open to everyone, requiring a Notebook, the required tools installed and a bit of patience in order to accomplish something
• NIGHTMARE: for programmers only.
WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT
• Introduction to Game Design 11/06 - EASY
• Rapid videogame prototyping with Construct 2 18/06 – MEDIUM
• Javascript Game Programming with ImpactJS 25/06 – NIGHTMARE
• Game Jam Crash Course + Game Jam Session 02/07 – EASY/MEDIUM
• Game Jam Session 09/07 – EASY/MEDIUM
• What went wrong? Traditional Game Design: Conceptualization, Formal and
Dramatic Elements, The Game Design Document 16/07 – EASY
• Introduction to Unity3D: Basic Concepts 23/07 – NIGHTMARE
• Game Jam Session 30/07 – EASY/MEDIUM
• See you back again in September :)
Let’s get this sorted out right now. We are Italians, so we could have
written all the slides in our language, it would have been easier and it
would have taken less time. So why have we chosen English?
Because as a game designer you will NEED to be able to Speak, Read
AND Write in English at a pretty good level. English is the main
language in the game developer community and Internet in general and
most (if not all) the good books about game design are written in
English.
So, lesson one. If you can’t understand all this stuff you are not ready to
be a good Game Designer.
You should have listened to that pesky English teacher at High School!
Why are all the slides in
English?!
OTHER USEFUL SOURCES AND GAMES
http://www.gamesradar.com/amazing-indie-games-youve-never-played-indie-devs-
you-love/
OTHER GAMES TO PLAY
Super Crate Box http://www.supercratebox.com/
SpaceChem http://spacechemthegame.com/
Continuity http://continuitygame.com/playcontinuity.html http://continuitygame.com/
Bit Trip Beat http://www.aksysgames.com/bittripbeat/
World of Goo http://www.worldofgoo.com/
Fotonicahttp://www.fotonica-game.com/
Osmos
http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/
vvvvvvv
http://thelettervsixtim.es/
Canabalt
http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/
Fract
http://fractgame.com/
Frozen Synapse http://www.frozensynapse.com/
Revenge of Titans
http://www.puppygames.net/revenge-of-thetitans/