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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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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?
