FUNDAMENTALS OF GAME DESIGN

1. AFT710 FUNDAMENTALS OF GAME DESIGN

2. Prototype game
A prototype is your way of testing out concepts without
putting in too much time or effort. ... You can imagine how
beneficial it is to find out an idea won't work before putting
in the time to code it, make art for it, etc

3. Paper prototype game
Paper prototyping is an easy and inexpensive method of
testing out game ideas and anybody can do it.
Basically all you need is a pencil or pen and a piece of
paper of any type.
The idea is to simulate the game you are designing to get
an idea of the different parts of design before you make a
large time and effort investment into creating a digital or
more exact physical prototype.

4. Advantages of paper prototype
1.Initial development speed:
For quickly throwing together a game, nothing beats
paper. You can combine some dice, 3 x 5 note cards, and
other simple elements to make a game in very little time.
Even when you have a lot of experience as a game
designer, starting on a new digital game project can take
quite a bit of time if it's significantly different from anything
you've done before.

5. 2.Iteration speed:
Making changes to paper games is also very fast; in fact,
you can even make changes to the games while you're
playing.
Because of the ease of changes, paper prototypes are a
great fit for game brainstorming at the beginning of
preproduction on a project when large changes to the
project can happen frequently. If a paper prototype isn't
working, making a change can take as little as a few
minutes.

6. 3.Low technical barrier to entry:
Because very little technical knowledge or artistic talent is
required to make a paper prototype, anyone on the game
development team can take part in the process. This is a
way to get greatideas from people on your team who
would not be able to effectively contribute to a digital
prototype.

7. 4.Collaborative prototyping:
Because of the low barrier to entry and the rapid
iteration, you can collaboratively create and modify a
paper prototype in away that is not yet possible for digital
prototypes. A group of people from across your team can
work together on a paper prototype and share ideas
quickly.
As an added benefit, bringing people from across your
game development team into the design process in this
way can help to increase their buy-in for the entirety of
the project and can serve as a fantastic teambuilding
activity.

8. 5. Focused prototyping and testing
It is obvious to even a complete novice that a paper
prototype of a digital game is going to be very different
from the final digital product.
A paper prototype can help direct the attention of your
testers in the same way so that they don't get hung up on
the look of the prototype but instead focus on the specific
aspect of gameplay that you intend to test.

9. Paper prototype examples

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13. Paper prototype video examples
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64vZ76XM5mQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5U645KA5NM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dt1bQsZ68iw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x48qOA2Z_xQ&t=27s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLLBwnKQeQQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-g8z3rHhPA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMoVMFkU8gE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeagW9fqWPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q5VH5B4uwc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riTL4lQ-LR8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7m-vAYnH9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvg8GpdQZSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kovrZ9D1zao
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYWi9pTHu64