Presentation highlights the Top Six Lessons from Learning Game Development.

1. Learning Game Development
6 Lessons

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

14. LESSON 4
INCLUDE A
HOW-TO-PLAY

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
PLAY TEST EARLY,
PLAY TEST OFTEN

21. To avoid incurring huge costs on play testing,
use paper prototypes that model
game-play

22. Play-test all through
design and
development
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