Chapter 2What Is Game Design? When I tell people I’m a game designer, the conversation generally goes something like this. Me:I’m a game designer. You:Oh, the programming? Me:No, but I work with the programmers. You:The art?
Welcome to What’s in a Game, a website dedicated to the design and development of video games! Let’s look at some of my favorite games and see why I love them – and even how I wish I could make them better. As a Senior Software Engineer working on games, I’ve tested out a ...
Kojima:In game design, I think thethemeof a game occupies the same position of importance as the gameplay. The hardest part for me of any development is building a theme that will enliven and enrich the gameplay. In your typical command-style adventure game, time is actually stopped while t...
Indie game development is the process of creating a game by a small team or one person without the financial support of large publishers. Indie developers do not have investors ready to fund all their ideas. Development money is most often raised on...
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If the above is going to be written without the use of any technical terms so that a layman can understand extensively, this would be this. OpenGl is a basic resource and tool for things like 2D and 3D game development. One of the things that makes the opengl gaming very significant is...
Of course, game interface design is a lot more than that — and it’s a space that keeps evolving with new technologies and platforms. For example, designing a game for Xbox, where the player will be using a controller, is very different from designing a mobile game, where it’s all ...
Chess – a highly complex and innovative game with an unpredictable number of opponent moves – is a perfect working example of the iterative game design process. Chess programming is practically impossible because game development depends on user moves, which are learned by the central processing un...
What Games Are is about game design, game development, games as art, craft, culture and industry and how you can make better games.
Starting Your Journey as a Game Developer A career in game development can be highly rewarding both financially and creatively, but it’s not without its challenges; there will always be obstacles that need to be overcome along the way, but with hard work and dedication, you can become succes...