Game Design Foundations: 1 Ideas, Core Loops, and Goals

Discover practical strategies for starting a career in game design, drafting your game ideas, and fleshing out those concepts into designs that a team can implement.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. What Is Game Design?

• The role of the game designer
• Types of game designers
• Generating ideas for games
• Exercise: The easiest game design exercise in the world

2. The Core of a Game

• What is a core for a game?
• Defining the core loop of a game
• Defining features from a core
• Exercise: Creating features from a core

3. Game Design Atoms

• Players in the world
• Game view
• Mechanics, dynamics, and system in game design
• Goals
• Exercise: The mechanics of play (where to start)

Conclusion

• Next steps