Course: Game Design for Beginners: Create Your First Game

This video serves as the introduction to Game Design: A Beginner’s Guide. It introduces the overall purpose, learning goals, and structure of the course. Students will learn that game design …

Why do we need experience evaluation? At the early stages of a project, ordinary players might struggle to objectively assess the overall feasibility and enjoyment of a game due to …

Experience evaluation is particularly suitable for early-stage design concepts, aiming to compensate for the lack of effective user testing at the beginning of a project. Therefore, we can begin experience …

Before conducting an expert evaluation, we can organize the process into four key stages: preparation, expert selection, evaluation, and summary. Preparation Phase: First, clearly define the evaluation content and complete …

How can we track the progress of the current project, understand each member’s tasks, and reasonably advance the development process? In this case, we can consider using a Scrum Board. …

When a team needs to prioritise multiple tasks, the Bull’s Eye Diagram can be used. The Bull’s Eye Diagram resembles a dartboard with several concentric circles. The closer the content …

In a game development team, collaboration is essential. As we’ve seen when discussing the tasks of various development teams, many aspects of game development require close coordination between different departments. …

Typically don’t notice the programming, but once something goes wrong (a bug), we quickly identify the gaps in the system. Every system feature in the game needs to be implemented …

Game art directly impacts the visual experience of the game and is the first thing players encounter. Excellent art design can attract more players, whereas poor art design might cause …

The fundamental factor determining whether a game is fun is its game design. Game designers decide all the content of the game, from the game type and player controls to …

Game designers often bring systems from the real world into games, making the game world a reflection of the real world. Here, we take online games (multiplayer online games) as …

Many games directly impact our real world. They are similar to instruction manuals, clearly demonstrating their intended purpose. These types of games are widely used in fields like military, healthcare, …

When we play some games, we often experience a sense of being unable to distinguish between reality and the game world. Game designers are also contemplating how to challenge the …

As a concept that separates the game world from reality, the magic circle also has scope and rules. The scope of the magic circle includes both spatial and temporal dimensions. …

The concept of the “magic circle” originates from Johan Huizinga’s work Homo Ludens. In the book, he writes: “The temporary world within the magic circle exists within the real world, …