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Design Game Design Color Theory

The Psychology of Color in Game Design & Development

Comprehensive Theory/Psychology Course that Analyzes how Color can affect a Player's Emotion, Actions and Thinking!
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (400 ratings)
2,615 students
Created by Emilio Padulo, Too Much Sugar Productions inc
Last updated 12/2020
English
English [Auto]
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Learn the Psychology behind different colors
  • Comprehensive understanding of Color Theory
  • Techniques of using Color in Game Design
  • How to use different Color Schemes in the right areas
  • What are the best tools to create your own Color Palettes

Requirements

  • A willingness to Learn the different ways Color Psychology & Theory can impact Game Design

Description

The most comprehensive course on how Color Theory in Game Design Works!

Why this course is special

This course not only covers the basics of what Color Theory is. It also showcases how different colors can affect players in many ways.

This course will talk about what the psychology of certain colors is, how they effect us, what they represent and the difference shades of colors mean. Understanding this is crucial in how to design levels, characters, environments, mechanics etc...

We then take a look at different color schemes and what they are. From that knowledge, we can start to see how certain schemes can work in certain situations and with creating our color palettes.

After the color theory and psychology is covered, we can now deep dive into how we can apply our new found knowledge in video games. We will look at the different functions color has in video games, colors as identifiers, varied content and much more.


My Guarantee

For every student that joins the course, they will be able to ask questions about their own games and how to go about using color to develop them. I will be available to answer any and all questions for all of my students.


The Course Structure

The course is almost all video. It will take between 2.5 hours to complete. After you finish this course, you will have a stronger understanding of how to design your games with different color palettes. You will understand the benefits of using certain schemes to create the exact emotion or feeling you want to players to have. 

The course is structured into 3 main Sections.

  • Section 2: Introduction to Color Psychology

    In this section, We will be taking a solid look at how each individual color  impacts us in every aspect. How they can have multiple different meanings and emotions attached to them. What they represent in society and how they effect us in our daily lives. We will also look at how some shades have very specific impacts on us.


  • Section 3: Different Color Schemes

    Here, we look at what color schemes are and what they do. We will look at the multiple different ones that exist are the ways they are used in order to tell a certain story.


  • Section 4: How Color works in Game/Level Design

    This is my favorite section because in this one, we will take all that knowledge we just gained from the previous 2 sections, and put it into practice. Basically we will see how colors that create a mise en scene for our players and help pull them into the game instead of pushing them. We look at the functions color has in games, what color is supposed to be used in specific ways, creating color layouts, how to vary content, how to create our very own color palette and so much more.

Money back Guarantee  

The course comes with an unconditional, Udemy-backed, 30-day money-back guarantee. This is not just a guarantee, it's my personal promise to you that I will go out of my way to help you succeed.

Certification of completion when finishing this course 

When you complete 100% of the videos in this course, you will be emailed a certificate of completion by Udemy so you can show it as proof of your expertise and that you have completed a certain number of hours of instruction in the course topic.

Who this course is for:

  • Game Designers
  • Level Designers
  • Artists
  • Game Developers
  • Digital Artist

Featured review

Anonymized User
Anonymized User
29 courses
28 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 5a year ago
Thank you very much Professor Padulo for teaching this wonderful course. I really enjoyed learning about the psychological associations between different kinds of primary and secondary colors. I also enjoyed how you tied the concepts to real life examples of video games using different colors to achieve different kinds of emotions and focusing the player to a specific point. In addition, the course itself had a large amount of content and had great variety of examples and lectures.

Course content

4 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 17m total length

  • Preview02:33

  • The Color of Aggression: Red
    07:17
  • The Color of Calm: Blue
    06:34
  • The Color of Happiness: Yellow
    06:57
  • Primary Color Quiz
    8 questions
  • The Color of Growth: Green
    08:04
  • Preview08:42
  • Preview06:08
  • Secondary Color Quiz
    7 questions
  • The Color of Darkness: Black
    05:12
  • The Color of Purity: White
    06:11
  • Black & White Quiz
    4 questions

  • Preview03:21
  • The Monochromatic Color Scheme
    03:19
  • The Achromatic Color Scheme
    02:53
  • The Analogous Color Scheme
    03:24
  • First 3 Color Scheme Quiz
    6 questions
  • The Complementary Color Scheme
    06:07
  • The Polychromatic Color Scheme
    02:46
  • The Triadic Color Scheme
    03:05
  • Last 3 Color Schemes Quiz
    5 questions

  • Color Theory in Level Design
    00:07
  • Different Functions of Color in Games
    12:52
  • The 4 Most used Color Palettes in Games
    05:33
  • Understanding Emotion
    3 questions
  • Color Relativity
    00:13
  • What Color as an Identifier is
    03:53
  • The Difference between Glyphs and Neutrals
    04:42
  • How to Design Color Layouts
    10:53
  • Using 2 Color Identifiers
    03:28
  • Using 3+ Color Identifiers
    03:58
  • How to use Color to create Content Variation in both Level & Game Design
    04:45
  • Time to Create your own Color Palette
    04:37

Instructors

Emilio Padulo
Economic Game Designer
Emilio Padulo
  • 4.6 Instructor Rating
  • 1,445 Reviews
  • 9,291 Students
  • 5 Courses

Greetings

My name is Emilio Padulo and I am an Economy Game Designer at Ubisoft Montreal

Ever since I was young I have always been interested in creating games; whether it was inventing RPG games with my sister, creating huge Lego worlds with story-driven adventures or building excel spreadsheets for Diablo. From childhood my path has always been clear - I would work in the video game industry one way or another.

During my adult years I continued on this path and obtained two degrees; one in Marketing and another in Game and Level Design. In the course of my degrees, I delved into many theories heavy topics about Game Design & Development such as; Freemium business model, gamification, analyzing KPIs for optimization, level design, color psychology - just to name a few.

There has been a lot of trial and error in my own personal approaches which are errors I want others to avoid hence why I've started creating these courses to help developers new to the industry to not make the same mistakes I, and many others have done.

I cannot wait to share all that I have learned with you so that you too can become a great game developer in no time. So start now, and take a look at some of the courses I offer. If you have any questions - feel free to reach out!

Emilio Padulo

Too Much Sugar Productions inc
Industry Professionals teaching the next wave of devs
Too Much Sugar Productions inc
  • 4.5 Instructor Rating
  • 1,212 Reviews
  • 7,971 Students
  • 3 Courses

Too Much Sugar Productions (TMS) is a multimedia company that provides reputable consumable media and entertainment services for people of all ages.

TMS is also committed to providing the highest quality of multimedia services across different platforms in order to reach its consumers and viewers across the globe.

Our team consist of video game industry professionals who are ready to impart our experience and knowledge to you.

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