Game Design Essentials: Tools, Theories and Techniques

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Gabriel Chauri,Game Design Thinking

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1. Section 1 Setting Up for Success

1. Welcome.mp4

01:49

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2. Game Design Basics

1. Identifying the Elements of Asteroids.mp4

02:22

3. What is a Game and What is Design.mp4

04:19

4. The Role of the Game Designer.mp4

06:41

5. Other Roles in Game Development.mp4

04:52

6. Game Design Specialisations.mp4

07:16

8. Games Unique Feature.mp4

04:38

9. Game Mechanics.mp4

12:40

10. MDA and other Game Design Frameworks.mp4

05:19

12. How to keep Improving as a Game Designer.mp4

04:15

13. What Skills do you need to be a Game Designer.mp4

08:31

16.1 2. Game Design Basics - Slides.zip

17. Congratulations on Completing Section 2!.mp4

00:44

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3. The Game Design Thinking Process

1. The Game Design Thinking Process.mp4

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2. Game Concept Maslows Hierarchy of Needs.mp4

04:49

3. Game Concept The Beginners Mindset.mp4

05:37

5. Ideate Ideation Techniques.mp4

06:14

8. Define The 5 Phases of Players Decision-Making.mp4

05:09

9. Define Automatic vs. Rational Decision-making.mp4

03:45

10. Define Interactive Loops for Decision-making.mp4

06:18

11. Define Bad Decision-Making.mp4

04:05

12. Define Interesting Decisions.mp4

04:28

13. Define Self-Determination Theory.mp4

06:09

15. Prototyping and Playtesting Three Hats For Analysing Games.mp4

06:13

18.1 3. The Game Design Thinking Process - Slides.zip

20. Congratulations on Finishing Section 3.mp4

01:00

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4. Communicating your Game

1. What is a GDD.mp4

05:59

2. Creating Compelling Documents.mp4

07:40

4. Use presentations as a lethal weapon!.mp4

04:03

5. Pitching your Game.mp4

06:10

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5. Math & Probability

1. Math & Probability in Games.mp4

05:47

2. Probability in Board Games.mp4

08:57

3. Probability in Video Games.mp4

06:10

4. Excel Basics.mp4

06:37

5. Using Spreadsheets for Modelling.mp4

06:58

7. Random and Procedural elements.mp4

07:37

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6. Introduction to Game System Design

1. Introduction to Systems Thinking.mp4

04:27

2. Systemic Game Design.mp4

07:04

3. Systems Parts.mp4

04:17

4. Feedback Loops.mp4

09:29

6. Real Systems Analysis.mp4

06:15

7. Game Systems Analysis.mp4

07:00

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7. Farewell

1. Congratulations!.mp4

01:20

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Description

Harness the power of game design, psychology and systems thinking to understand your players and how games work.

What You'll Learn?

Learn to design games understanding all their constitutive parts and how they connect with each other
Learn to play games like a game designer (Analytical play)
Understand Systems Thinking to understand our world and existing games to transfer those experiences into your own games
Use the Design Thinking method to improve your design process
Use psychology to understand your players and create more directed experiences
Create spreadsheet simulations to balance your games
Use GDD and pitching to communicate with your team and different stakeholders

Who is this for?

Any person who wants to understand how to create engaging and meaningful experiences

Beginner game designers who wants to acquire more specific, hands-on knowledge and experience

People related to game developent who wants to transition to a game designer role

What You Need to Know?

Be able to access a text editor, slides presentation and spreadsheets

Having scrap paper and dices would be nice, since we are going to make some board games!

More details

Description
This course offers a comprehensive framework to understand and practice game design.
At the end of this course, you will have the tools and thinking process to understand why some games are fun and keep players playing for a long time, while others fail.

WHATÂ YOUÂ WILLÂ LEARN...
Understand the role of the game designer and other roles in game development
How to keep improving as a game designer and what skills you need
What are game parts, mechanics and dynamics and understand the language of games
Harness the power of Design Thinking to better Empathize, Ideate and Prototype your games.
Use Psychology to understand your players and how they perceive your game
What is a GDD
What is a game pitch
How to communicate your game idea to your team
How math and probability work in board and video games
Create game models using Google Spreadsheets to test your game early
Use random, procedural generation and systems thinking to create systemic gameplay to design games that are interesting to play and watch.
Analyze real and game systems to create meaningful games by relating players to their surroundings and experiences
HOWÂ WILLÂ YOUÂ PRACTICE WHAT YOU HAVE LEARNED
You will create a card game from a humble beginning all the way to a unique and engaging game.
Each activity is designed to practice what you have just learned.
The card game will be uniquely modified by you, so you can keep working on it even after the course ends.
What is NOT included in this course...
Programming languages
Art asset creation
Who this course is for:
Any person who wants to understand how to create engaging and meaningful experiences
Beginner game designers who wants to acquire more specific, hands-on knowledge and experience
People related to game developent who wants to transition to a game designer role

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Gabriel Chauri

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I'm Gabriel Chauri. I'm a passionate game designer with several years of professional experience. I like to create experiences that players will enjoy and share and most important of all, that will make them think and see the world in a different way. I also like to teach and mentoring. I've participated in several games jams as a jammer and as a mentor and I've teached different disciplines (like music theory and game design) for +6 years.

Game Design Thinking

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Game Design Thinking was created to deliver a centralized, high-quality standard education in game design, so you can create compelling and meaningful experiencies through your games.Through our courses that combine theory and practice, we will give you the tools so you as a game designer develop the correct mindset and framework that will allow you to create longlasting and meaningful games that players will enjoy.In Game Design Thinking, we are firm believers that games have the power to change the world for the better and that we as game designers, have the responsability to make these changes happen.

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