Game Design – Week 7 – Tools, Time, and Rooms

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SUMMARY

• Write your weekly summary here, last, at the end of the week…
  • Only one to two sentences
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PRACTICE ROOM (TUTORIALS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’
• Pick a game engine you have access to at home
• Find an interesting and effective YouTube channel playlist for training
• Link that playlist here and write a brief description about the tutorials and the channel
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CLASSROOM (THEORY & ANALYSIS)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes in this ‘room’
• Watch Making Your First Game: Minimum Viable Product – Scope Small, Start Right – Extra Credits
• Write a few sentences reflection about what you learned
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Game Genres from the Simplest and Most Difficult to Create

1. 1. Racing Game
   2. Top-Down Shooter
   3. 2d Platformer
   4. Color Matching Puzzle Game
   5. 2D Puzzle Platformer
   6. 3D Platformer
   7. FPS
   8. JRPG
   9. Fighting Game
   10. Action Adventure
   11. Western RPG
   12. RTS

LAB (THEORY PRACTICED)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes outside in the ‘room’
• Watch Playing Like a Designer – I: Examine Your Experiences – Extra Credits
• Watch Playing Like a Designer – II: How to Analyze Game Design – Extra Credits
• Write a few sentences reflection about what you learned
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OUTSIDE (CREATIVITY & THE BRAIN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 15 minutes outside, if you can safely
• Go for a walk. Think about your life as a narrative for today.  A story of today. You as the protagonist. What/who is your nemesis? Are you trying to win/accomplish something? What? Write notes here about what you thought… and experiment with your blog.  Maybe change the theme? Have fun!
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STUDIO (GAME DESIGN)

• Set a timer
• Spend up to 30 minutes in this ‘room’
• Create 5 project ideas
• Enter at least five core game (i.e. product) ideas to be considered for your own game development later in the year
• These do not need to be very detailed ideas, just a few sentences to capture the main game concept
  • Write a detailed description of the game idea
  • Identify the game genre (detailed above in this post) for inspiration
  • Review  Robin’s 5 Original Ideas for inspiration
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WEEKLY ACTIVITY EVALUATION

• Spend 3 minutes on this activity
• Give feedback on this week’s class Content and Process
  • Fill in the Weekly Activity Evaluation
• The data you submit helps you demonstrate 21st Century Employability Skills
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