Game Design Essentials: Tools, Theories and Techniques

Game Design Essentials: Tools, Theories and Techniques, available at $79.99, has an average rating of 4.34, with 81 lectures, 7 quizzes, based on 262 reviews, and has 2682 subscribers.

You will learn about Learn to design games understanding all their constitutive parts and how they connect with each other Learn to play games like a game designer (Analytical play) Understand Systems Thinking to understand our world and existing games to transfer those experiences into your own games Use the Design Thinking method to improve your design process Use psychology to understand your players and create more directed experiences Create spreadsheet simulations to balance your games Use GDD and pitching to communicate with your team and different stakeholders This course is ideal for individuals who are Any person who wants to understand how to create engaging and meaningful experiences or Beginner game designers who wants to acquire more specific, hands-on knowledge and experience or People related to game developent who wants to transition to a game designer role It is particularly useful for Any person who wants to understand how to create engaging and meaningful experiences or Beginner game designers who wants to acquire more specific, hands-on knowledge and experience or People related to game developent who wants to transition to a game designer role.

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Title: Game Design Essentials: Tools, Theories and Techniques

Price: $79.99

Average Rating: 4.34

Number of Lectures: 81

Number of Quizzes: 7

Number of Published Lectures: 81

Number of Published Quizzes: 6

Number of Curriculum Items: 88

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 87

Original Price: £54.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Learn to design games understanding all their constitutive parts and how they connect with each other
Learn to play games like a game designer (Analytical play)
Understand Systems Thinking to understand our world and existing games to transfer those experiences into your own games
Use the Design Thinking method to improve your design process
Use psychology to understand your players and create more directed experiences
Create spreadsheet simulations to balance your games
Use GDD and pitching to communicate with your team and different stakeholders

Who Should Attend

Any person who wants to understand how to create engaging and meaningful experiences
Beginner game designers who wants to acquire more specific, hands-on knowledge and experience
People related to game developent who wants to transition to a game designer role

Target Audiences

Any person who wants to understand how to create engaging and meaningful experiences
Beginner game designers who wants to acquire more specific, hands-on knowledge and experience
People related to game developent who wants to transition to a game designer role

This course offers a comprehensive framework to understand and practice game design.

At the end of this course, you will have the tools and thinking process to understand why some games are fun and keep players playing for a long time, while others fail.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN…

Understand the role of the game designer and other roles in game development
How to keep improving as a game designer and what skills you need
What are game parts, mechanics and dynamics and understand the language of games
Harness the power of Design Thinking to better Empathize, Ideate and Prototype your games.
Use Psychology to understand your players and how they perceive your game
What is a GDD
What is a game pitch
How to communicate your game idea to your team
How math and probability work in board and video games
Create game models using Google Spreadsheets to test your game early
Use random, procedural generation and systems thinking to create systemic gameplay to design games that are interesting to play and watch.
Analyze real and game systems to create meaningful games by relating players to their surroundings and experiences

HOW WILL YOU PRACTICE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED

You will create a card game from a humble beginning all the way to a unique and engaging game.
Each activity is designed to practice what you have just learned.
The card game will be uniquely modified by you, so you can keep working on it even after the course ends.

What is NOT included in this course…

Programming languages
Art asset creation

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Section 1: Setting Up for Success

Lecture 1: Welcome!

Lecture 2: About the Instructor and Game Design Thinking

Lecture 3: Companion Website

Lecture 4: 0.1 & 0.2 Tiny Pixel Fights Instructions and Materials

Chapter 2: Game Design Basics

Lecture 1: Identifying the Elements of Asteroids

Lecture 2: 1.1. Asteroid Elements

Lecture 3: What is a Game and What is Design

Lecture 4: The Role of the Game Designer

Lecture 5: Other Roles in Game Development

Lecture 6: Game Design Specialisations

Lecture 7: 1.2. What is the role for you?

Lecture 8: Games' Unique Feature

Lecture 9: Game Mechanics

Lecture 10: MDA and other Game Design Frameworks

Lecture 11: 1.3.1. & 1.3.2. List and Add Mechanics to Tiny Pixel Fights!

Lecture 12: How to keep Improving as a Game Designer?

Lecture 13: What Skills do you need to be a Game Designer?

Lecture 14: Game Design Basics – References

Lecture 15: Game Design Basics – Graphics & Slides

Lecture 16: Congratulations on Completing Section 2!

Chapter 3: The Game Design Thinking Process

Lecture 1: The Game Design Thinking Process

Lecture 2: Game Concept: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs

Lecture 3: Game Concept: The Beginner's Mindset

Lecture 4: Game Pillars: Game Pillar Document

Lecture 5: Ideate: Ideation Techniques

Lecture 6: 2.1. Using the SCAMPER technique on your favourite game

Lecture 7: Define: The Three Brains (YouTube)

Lecture 8: Define: The 5 Phases of Players’ Decision-Making

Lecture 9: Define: Automatic vs. Rational Decision-making

Lecture 10: Define: Interactive Loops for Decision-making

Lecture 11: Define: Bad Decision-Making

Lecture 12: Define: Interesting Decisions

Lecture 13: Define: Self-Determination Theory

Lecture 14: 2.2. Brainstorming new mechanics

Lecture 15: Prototyping and Playtesting: Three Hats For Analysing Games

Lecture 16: Prototyping and Playtesting: Csikszentmihalyi's Flow Theory

Lecture 17: 2.3. Playtest your new mechanics!

Lecture 18: The Game Design Thinking Process — Graphics & Slides

Lecture 19: The Game Design Thinking Process — References

Lecture 20: Congratulations on Finishing Section 3

Lecture 21: Can you leave us a review?

Chapter 4: Communicating your Game

Lecture 1: What is a GDD?

Lecture 2: Creating Compelling Documents

Lecture 3: What content should a GDD have

Lecture 4: GDD Content Checklist

Lecture 5: Concept GDD: Part 1

Lecture 6: Concept GDD: Part 2

Lecture 7: 3.1. Write a Concept GDD

Lecture 8: Use presentations as a lethal weapon!

Lecture 9: Pitching Your Game

Lecture 10: Talk — 30 things I hate about your game pitch

Lecture 11: 3.2. Create a 3-minute presentation!

Lecture 12: Communicating Your Game – References

Lecture 13: Congratulations!

Chapter 5: Math & Probability

Lecture 1: Math & Probability in Games

Lecture 2: Dependent and Independent Probability

Lecture 3: Communicating Probabilities

Lecture 4: Spreadsheets Basics

Lecture 5: Using Spreadsheets for Modelling

Lecture 6: 4.1., 4.2. Balancing Tiny Pixel Fights

Lecture 7: Handmade, Random and Procedural Elements

Lecture 8: Playtesting Your Balance!

Lecture 9: Math & Probability – References

Lecture 10: Math & Probability – Slides

Chapter 6: Introduction to Game System Design

Lecture 1: Introduction to Systems Thinking

Lecture 2: Systemic Game Design

Lecture 3: Deep vs. Wide Systems

Lecture 4: Systems Elements

Lecture 5: System Design Diagram Starter Pack

Lecture 6: Feedback Loops

Lecture 7: Dealing with Complex Systems

Lecture 8: 5.1.1. & 5.1.2. Find and Create some Feedback loops

Lecture 9: 5.2. What other systems can you add?

Lecture 10: Introduction to Game Systems Design – References

Lecture 11: Introduction to Game Systems Design – Slides

Chapter 7: Farewell

Lecture 1: Congratulations!

Lecture 2: Course survey

Lecture 3: 6.1. Moving the Game Forward

Lecture 4: 6.2. Sharing Your Companion Website

Lecture 5: Acknowledgements and Attribution

Lecture 6: Bonus Lecture

Instructors

Gabriel Chauri
Game Designer
Game Design Thinking
Academy

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1 stars: 3 votes
2 stars: 12 votes
3 stars: 34 votes
4 stars: 78 votes
5 stars: 135 votes

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