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Welcome To Game Design - Introduction to Game Design Theory
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Welcome To Game Design - Introduction to Game Design Theory

Digital, Board Games and Gamification: find your ideal Game Role in the Game Industry while learning about all areas.
Created byOne Day Code - John Haste
Last updated 3/2024
English
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What you'll learn

  • Understand what makes a game be a good game
  • Get to know in which area the student fits better
  • Know the differences between the different types of Game Producers
  • Know the different Games Purposes
  • Learn how to adjust and choose the best tutorial for each Target Audience
  • Find free assets to use in their games, even commercially
  • Fill a basic Game Design Document for their own games
  • Choose the best Store to publish games, according to the team's goal

Course content

4 sections • 22 lectures • 1h 30m total length

  • Download The Class Presentation0:03
  • Introduction1:20
  • What is a Game?6:36
  • How to Rate the course2:42

    Please guys, It's a free course, I gave my best to help you out with this introduction to game design and I tried my best here to help people all around the world.

    Take it into consideration when rating the course, thank you and God bless you all!

  • Join Our Discord Server ?0:14
  • Game Types (Digital, Analog, Gamification)5:52
  • Game Loops5:36

    Explore how game loops link actions to outcomes through input, rules, and feedback. Identify the four loop elements: mental model, actions, rules, and feedback—and how familiarity biases guide design.

  • Game Arcs4:15
  • Quizz 1

Requirements

  • There are absolutely no prerequisites to take this course.

Description

[Com Legendas em Português]

This is NOT a Programming course, the Goal is to understand the theory behind the creation of games.

You will learn about many different aspects of Game Design and how they work, such as:

  • What a Game is (Goal, Interaction, Obstacles and Rules)

  • Types of Games (Digital, Analog and Gamification)

  • Game Loops

  • Game Arcs

  • Game Roles

  • Game Industry (Publishers, Game Studios and Indie Game Studios)

  • Game Purposes

  • Layers of a Digital Game

  • Tutorials (Explicit, Implicit)

  • Licensing (Royalty free, Creative Commons)

  • Game Design Document (+ Template)

  • Crowdfunding

  • Publishing Games (Google Play, App Store, Steam and Itch io)

By the end of some classes, I’ll challenge you to do some exercises, to help you learn better. They are not mandatory, but they can make you become a better game designer.

You will also answer some Quizzes, to help you memorize what you learnt even more.

You’ll also be able to download the presentation used in this course.

This course will help you create a bionic eye, after your know how games are made, playing them will never be the same again.

Enroll Now and I See you in the course!

Who this course is for:

  • People who want to learn about the Game Industry
  • People who want to understand Game Theory
  • Anyone who plans to work with Games in any area
  • Humans that want to create a Bionic eye and play games as a Game Designer
  • Teams who want to learn how to earn money by making games

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