Course: Game Design for Beginners: Create Your First Game

Players often face various challenges, and the difficulty of these challenges can vary. By confronting these challenges, players gain enjoyment from the game. We can divide player interactions into two …

In the process of breaking down a game system, the player is the first element we need to define. Players are participants in the game, and throughout the game, they …

Processes connect the elements of a game. In a game, all content that follows a sequence or has a developmental process is considered part of the process. Macro processes include …

Games typically have a variety of limitations. These limitations constrain player actions within the game, ensuring that players experience the challenges they are meant to face. It is these limitations …

Connections refer to the mutual influence between elements and elements, as well as between player actions and elements. This mutual influence links various elements in the game, forming a network …

The goal is the endpoint of the game, and achieving the goal is the driving force for players to engage in the game. A game without a goal is more …

Whether it’s a tabletop game or a video game, they share certain commonalities within their game systems. When we attempt to understand the systems of different types of games, we …

Elements are the building blocks of a game. To help understand elements, we can make an analogy with the human body. The human body is made up of cells, and …

When we recommend our favourite games to friends, we often encounter a question: how can we introduce the game as briefly as possible? Let’s try describing a game in one …

Once the team is stable, the real beginning of creation is not piling on more worldbuilding. It is going back to the player. What have they been playing recently? Why …

For a newly formed student team, the first challenge is usually not technical. It is the awkwardness of working with strangers, and the friction that comes from different assumptions and …

“Are games the ninth art?” This is a question people argue about all the time. If you look at the traditional list of the eight arts, literature, music, painting, sculpture, …

In Chinese, the word for game includes the ideas of both “wandering” and “performance”, which is quite interesting. In English, we often split things into two words, “play” and “game”, …

So then, what exactly is a “game”?It sounds like a simple question, but scholars have argued about it for well over a century. Aristotle described games as “rest after labour”. …

Over the next eight weeks, we will explore the methodologies and processes used in game creation from eight different perspectives: Week 1: Focus on the basic theoretical knowledge of game …