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Game Design

Game design focuses on creating an engaging and memorable player experience, built upon the Mechanics, Dynamics, and Aesthetics (MDA) framework. Successful design involves iterative processes of prototyping, testing, and balancing to ensure fairness and fun. Essential components include clear feedback loops, player autonomy, narrative depth, and a balanced progression and reward system. It it therefore both an art and a science.

Fundamentals

To learn about the fundamental principles of Game Design, we created a dictionary explaining the terminology of game design.

Design Process

• Game Analysis tools:
  • Game Genre Analysis Template
  • Game Mood Analysis Template
  • Game Theme Analysis Template
  • Gameplay Analysis with the MDA framework
• Player Types
  • Bartle’s Player Types
    • original article or browse the “Designing Virtual Worlds” book by Bartle in our physical GDT library]
    • Bartle Gamer Psychology Test
  • Quantic Foudry Gamer Types
    • explanation
    • self-test
• 1-page Game Design Document
• Game Pitch
• Prototyping
• 10-page Game Design Document
• Playable Demo
• Vertical Slice
• Investor Pitch

External Assets and other Resources

A page with sources to resources to use in your game.

Design Specialisms

• Level Design - Consult The Level Design Book which gives an overview of the process and details of doing level design.

Internship Partners

A list of internship partners we can recommend if you need inspiration in finding an internship position.