Game Design 101

• Game Design
• 9th Grade

What is your favorite game?

  Game Design 101

Link to GDevelop: https://gdevelop-app.com/

• Design (What is It?)
• Building a Game

        World Building
        Character Design
        Game Mechanics

• What Next?

What is Design?

What is Design?

We define design as a process, or series of steps, that can inspire change and make the world a better place. 

Design exists at the intersection of functionality and creativity.

What is the
purpose of games?

Purpose of Games

• Educational Tools  
• Empathy
• Tell a Story
• Fun
• etc..

Mabel Addis

Creator of the first text based video game called the Sumerian Game. 

Geared towards elementary school students to help teach about the earliest civilization in the historical southern Mesopotamia region. 

Link to Video about Game 

Atari released the video game "Pong"

Atari Video Games 

David De Gruttola, known by his pseudonym David Cage, is a French video game designer, writer and musician. He is the founder of the game development studio Quantic Dream.

Who Builds Video Games? 

• Coder
• Level Designer
• Character Designer
• Animator
• Graphic Artist
• Story Artist/ Narrative Designer
• And more!

GDevelop

Link to GDevelop: https://gdevelop-app.com/

Online G Develop	Desktop G Develop
Library of Characters Download game on to Desktop or Google Drive Publish game for wider audience	Create characters using Piskel Library of Characters Saves game on computer Publish game for wider audience

What is World Building?

World Building 

World Building is the process of creating an environment that your story lives in. When we start the process of building new worlds we are thinking about the ways that this world might be different from our own. 

Offers us a prospective of the world that the characters live in and the reason behind their actions.

Link to GDevelop: https://gdevelop-app.com/

Character Design 

https://www.piskelapp.com/

What are Game Mechanics?

Game Mechanics 

• A purpose for the game
• Rules for how game works
• How character's Interact 
•  How to Score Points

Overall function of the Game

What if you were playing a game and suddenly the rules changed?

How do you learn the rules to the game?

Purpose of Level One

What Next?

Link to GDevelop Learn 

Publish you Game 

IndieCade 2021 Nominated Games

Link to Unity

Link to Unreal Engine