Learning Game Development - Whizzzzzz
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The document outlines six essential lessons for game development, emphasizing the importance of having a clear game objective, a dynamic environment, and well-defined scoring. It also highlights the necessity of including instructions for players, managing design within budget and timelines, and conducting frequent play tests early in the development process. These guidelines aim to improve gameplay experience and cost efficiency throughout development.
Learning Game Development - Whizzzzzz
- 2. LESSON 1 BE ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN ABOUT THE GAME OBJECTIVE
- 3. Make sure to tie down to a singular objective; One that is achievable given the game mechanics
- 4. Eliminate game mechanics that do not explicitly tie to the outcome
- 5. LESSON 2 THE GAME ENVIRONMENT NEEDS TO BE DYNAMIC
- 6. Even in non-play condition, the game environment must still change
- 7. There must be some penalization of the player for not making moves
- 8. LESSON 3 BE SURE OF HOW YOU SCORE PLAYERS
- 9. Decide on what variables the score will depend
- 10. Decide what clearly defines a winning score
- 11. Decide how the system will compute it
- 12. Work out the formulae to calculate the score right at the beginning
- 13. Ensure that the player understands how actions in the game relate to an increase/decrease in score
- 15. Do not take the game play experience of other stakeholders for granted
- 16. Right from prototyping stage include instructions on how to play the game
- 17. LESSON 5 DESIGN IS ONE THING; DEVELOPMENT IS ANOTHER
- 18. Know the budget and timelines and tailor your game design around it
- 19. Be practical during development. Do not get carried away by the vision of the game designer
- 20. LESSON 6 EARLY, PLAY TEST OFTEN PLAY TEST
- 21. To avoid incurring huge costs on play testing, use paper prototypes that model game-play
- 22. Play-test all through design and development Read More
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