Creating a game
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Creating a game
Steps•Idea•Objective(s)•Purpose•Gameplay•Gameflow•Aesthetic
Idea• What is interesting? What isn’t?• What hasn’t been done? What has?• What interests you?• Think creatively. Think rhetorically.
• Audience▫Age▫Gender▫Type of gamer (hardcore? casual?)▫Education▫Income
Objective(s) or Premise•Summary of game
▫Premise▫Story▫Characters▫Major challenges▫Minor challenges
Purpose• Rhetorical (persuade somebody to do/believe)• Argumentative (make a case with evidence)
• Advergame (demonstrative, illustrative, associative
• Edugame (behaviorist, constructivist)• Ideological game (activism, belief)• Entertain
Remember, all games have these principles; you need to select the PRIMARY purpose.
Gameplay•What is the player doing in this game? •Genre?
▫Management game?▫Hidden Object Game?▫Mini-games?▫FPS?▫RTS?▫Other?
•Setting?•Platform?
Gameflow•Create a decision tree for your game. All
games have a gameflow.•Some games have narrative (progression)
elements and open-world (emergent) elements
•How does the player win, score, finish, not lose in the game?
Progression (Narrative) Gameflow
Begin
CliffForest
Ocean
Cave Inside Cave
Emergent (open-world games)Begin
Stage 2
Side Quests
Side 1
Side 2
Main Quest
Quest 2
Quest 1
Roam
Aesthetic•Visuals•Sound•Text
Remember to match your game’s aesthetic with its purpose.
Game Proof of Concept Tools
Video•What?
▫Gameplay representation▫Cutscenes/narrative elements
•Media?▫Live-action (checkout video cameras from
library)▫Text-to-speech animation (xtranorml)▫Static/zoom-pan images with voiceover and
music (comics, photographs)
Decision-tree hyperlinking•What?
▫Gameplay representation▫Cutscenes/narrative elements
•Media?▫HTML (web-based hyperlink game)▫PowerPoint
Progression (Narrative) Gameflow
Begin
CliffForest
Ocean
Cave Inside Cave
Cliff
Cliff
Cave
Cave
Programmed•What?
▫Gameplay representation▫Mini-games within a larger game▫Cutscenes/narrative elements
•Media?▫Scratch▫GameMaker▫Alice▫Sploder
Storyboarding•What?
▫Gameplay representation▫Cutscenes/narrative elements
•Media?