Month: October 2020

Game Design – Week 7 – Tools, Time, and Rooms

CreativeCommons image Tool Stash by Meena Kadri at Flickr.com

SUMMARY

  • mmmmm… yes this is a summary. but if your looking for an actual summary of my week I did classes, procrastinated, did work on wednesday, and then did this. and that’s basically it.

PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

  • I learned that for a first project you should start small and try to develop a minimum viable product, which is a prototype for a game that allows you see wat is fun and wats not and also seeing whether or not your idea will work.

Game Genres from the Simplest and Most Difficult to Create

  1. Racing Game
  2. Top-Down Shooter
  3. 2d Platformer
  4. Color Matching Puzzle Game
  5. 2D Puzzle Platformer
  6. 3D Platformer
  7. FPS
  8. JRPG
  9. Fighting Game
  10. Action Adventure
  11. Western RPG
  12. RTS

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

  • you should play a wide variety of games to help you understand what works and what doesn’t work when making a game. you should also learn to analyse games as you play them.

OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

  • today the protagonist was me, and the antagonist was my royally horrible work ethic every single day I struggle to just motivate myself to do anything really. In fact I feel like taking a nap right now

STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)

  • 1st idea: A 2D puzzle platformer that integrates limited teleportation mechanics into the gameplay. I would also want it to have a sort of “limited open world” feel like where its not very linear and as multiple endings because that would be cool.
  • 2nd idea: A top-down shooter similar to that of “enter the gungeon” or “binding of issac” but it takes place in space and as you travel from planet to planet.
  • 3rd idea: I don’t really know ow this would work but i’m envisioning an RPG where you play as a man who is sort of trapped within his own unconious mind as he trys to recover from amnesia? I dont know.
  • 4th idea: A fighting game where you play as different species of animals from around the world as they fight for survival because nature is cruel.
  • I dont currently have a 5th idea.

WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

I dont know what to put here but i answered the survey.