Game Design 101

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Hello I will be talking about video game design articles

The first article I was asked to read by Ian Schreiber It’s a blog from 2009 I have read before it talks about what a game actually is and the different definitions of what a game is. For example I would personally consider a game too something that has objectives you can fill out and when you complete those objectives you get rewards and progress forward, however another definitions of what a game is could be that it is a voluntary activity that leads no material benefit and one cannot be forced to do it. His blog interested me originally because she shows how easy some games can be too make he gives an example in the blog of a simple; race game.

 

The second article by Annakaisa Kultima was about how game ideas are produced and through interviews the article find out how game developers produce their ideas. The interviewees talk about how they develop game ides through different means some go on long walks some take long showers some paly other games the article then states that most ideas and game developers work in solitude I Don’t agree with this statement and I feel that the interviews produced where not diverse enough as all the game designers where Finish. I feel like if they got game designers from more than one country the answers they could get would be much different. It also seems like the article is trying to show how brainstorming doesn’t work for game idea generation but again if they got people form several different places it would have given different results.

 

The third article written by Vasiliev Ilya talks about different ways of finding new and recycling old ideas. He talks about the process of brainstorming and concentrating on an idea I personally use the concentration idea which Annakaisa Kultima also talks about a lot. The idea he most talks about is at the end the Ramsay method which I haven’t heard till now seemed like an interesting way to develop ideas since you really have to analyse the theme youre working with to dind brand new ideas.

 

Thanks for reading hope you enjoyed


Comments

  1. Justin UOctober 23, 2020 at 5:15 AM

    Hey Aleks,

    It was interesting to know what you learned from the articles and that you didn't just blindly agree with everything the article said. I have similar views with your interpretation of what a game is and I also agree that in the second article, the interviews should have been more diverse for more diverse answers. Any who, we all have our ways of coming up with ideas so we should just work with what works best for us.

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