The document discusses various aspects of game design including: - The process of game design which involves concepts, goals, planning, specifications and coding. - Important skills for game development like creativity, craft and technique. - Getting ideas and developing the game concept are important initial steps. - Game design should provide a good experience for players and keep things simple, unique with real-time interaction. - Testing and getting feedback is important during the development process.

1. Chapter : 1
Core Game Design
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2.  Information about game design
 To make game interesting
 Good game is that which provide good experience.
 Programmer should know the game environment and
various choices related to player and what is the content
of that choices related to player.
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3.  Keep simple
 Unique
 Real time environment
 Always used two player to play
 Fun
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4.  For game development the skills required is
creativity , craft, and technique.
 Getting idea is the important requirement into
game development.
 Game design process is followed by concept,
goal, plan, specification, code, test.
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5. Two steps in Game design process:
Step1: Build the concept
1.Get an idea
2.Build the game concept
3.Creat a goal
4.Creat an emotional experience for the
player.
Step 2: Creating the game specification
1.Write the design document
2.Build the prototype
3.Chose and appropriate lifecycle model
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6.  Getting an idea:
 Ideas come from dreams and inspiration
 Programmer should come with unique idea
 There is brief description What the game should
be written.
 This should measured in originality, potential
audience(all age group, specific group, only girls
and only boys)
 Final idea are check and the concept is created.
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7.  Game concept:
 Game is good if player win by doing unexpected
things.
 The game should have action(use many keys)
 Adventure (story)
 Puzzle(analytical thinking)
 Educational(learning by doing )
 Games likes movies combine different feature.
 Adventure game combine action and puzzle
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8. Difference between movies and games
 Require input from user
 Player make decision in game
 Game some time have no ending, one ending and
multiple ending but movies have predetermine
ending.
 Game has rule and goals, players, objects,
physics, sound, speech and emotion.
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9.  Every game has goal. All aspect focused the
player towards achieving the goal
Games having following goals:
1. To collect pointes
2. To gain power
3. To reach the destination/target first
4. To overcome obstacles
5. To discover something's
6. To eliminate opponents
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10. Point scoring game having no visible objective
Racing and conquest type game having visible
objective
1.In racing the player knows his/her position,
compare with opponent at any time
2.In RPG pointes earned spend on improving the
attribute
3. In strategy games, gather resource.
4.In adventure games, collect items are used to
solve the something's
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11.  If emotional experience does not match the
goal player not enjoy the game.
 Design a game in such way that players get
addicted.
 Cool graphics, fast action stimulating strategy
added to the game.
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12.  Score:
◦ player expect more from game experience than score.
◦ Fighting racing and sports
 Moves:
◦ controlling virtual athletes' in sports and vehicle in racing
required a steady practice.
 Explore levels:
◦ Hide the some of the levels, move through the levels
realize the hidden area,
◦ eg. Racing game having additional cars.
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13. What type of game it is?
What is the objective?
What feature gameplay having
 Identify the player
 Identify the game type and constraints
 Identify the universe
 Identify the goal
o Determine the criteria for success. How player
win/loss.
o Determine the rule for interaction
o How the constraint told to the player? Is story tell to
the player
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14.  The concept put dawn on the paper
 This will generate the outline and sketch of game
design
 This will help to move ahead or give up
 This stage technical constraint are not require only
unique feature take into account.
 Description of game working is given and result is
committed.
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15.  Feature based description easy to understand
 Feature comes into account from rules
 Rule changes when detailed the program
 Reason for changes is the diff. rule interact with
each other.
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16. 1.Vital feature(integral feature):
 This make the game work properly.
 In football game formation is selected first and the choice of
player made accordingly.
2.Chrome feature:
 Some feature not effect on the game but increase the
enjoyment.
 Story, look and feel of the game.
 Example: player choose the stadium.
3. Gameplay substitute:
o Some features does not affect the game but provide lot of
choices to the player.
o Ex: player can chose one on one with the computer or
multiplayer mode in LAN.
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17. 1.Explain the developer how the game works
2. Provide the vision statement through out
development
3. Identify the feature that are chrome or integral
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18.  Good interface design provide the user view with
there is no restriction on controlling the game
 Good interface are very useful in strategic games
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19.  Initial stage rule should be guess
 Then more and more rule are added and new
rules is interact with old one and changes made,
finally they became a hole.
 Rules provide the different features
 One unit is affected then, affect all other unit
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20.  Level design affect the core gameplay.
 Low level provide the more watching than playing
 Story oriented game provide more narrative character
so that user involve into game with lot of interest.
 Level should not be use to create deficiencies into
game.
 Accurate specification is given to level designer who
understand the rules
 Primary goal of the game design create interest in
reader and convey the design aspect without
ambiguity.
 Interest should be from start to end.
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21. Detailed game description:
 Basic concept:
◦ The idea should be informative and interesting
 Background story:
◦ This is necessary for adventure kind of game and not puzzle kind of
game
 Objective:
◦ Reader should have clear idea of gameplay and provide more
detailed as possible in design documents
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22.  Game play:
◦ Working of game from beginning to end, title screen
and option screen should be displayed, computerized
opponent should be provided by Artificial Inteliggence,
result of particular option should be known to player,
information provide by help option window.
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23.  Character
◦ Action in a game
 World
◦ Location, characters, objects, event
 Controls
◦ Buttons to be provided for user interface
 Graphics
◦ Grass, hard pitch
 Sound and music
◦ To create impact in a game
◦ Added more real time effect
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24. Prototype are build into following order
 Minimize the risk
 Get the client feedback in development process
 Help to visualize the end product
 Find the flexibility
Typical game section
Game section-1
 Environment is set up for game
 option to play or exit
 Requested to enter input
 Input is stored and view
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25. Game section-2
 Game state is change according to user last input
 AI is applied for player action. Then background
animation, music, sound effects perform
 Finally housekeeping is done
Game section-3
 Current animation is drawn into virtual buffer and then
displayed
 Frame displayed rate is specified and locked.
 Exit state source are released
 System setting are restored
 Control given to operating system
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26. 1. Rapid prototyping phase before specification very popular techniques
2. Building of game involves implementation and integration in repeated block
3. Agile-Extreme programming involve
◦ Team based and collaborative approach
◦ Hardly any documentation
◦ Integration of testing into development process
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27. 4. Development process involve
◦ Build the prototype
◦ Asking other people to look at the game
◦ Carefully observing the player
◦ Reward the player in the game
◦ Using new tester
◦ Taking the game to the next level
◦ Good design are both High level (architectural level ) and low
level(design level)
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28.  Strategy required to reach end points are called the gameplay
 Rules are interact with each other or environment to generate
result.
1.Implementing the gameplay:
 The game is series of choices
 The decision has gameplay value when it has an upside and
downside
 Each decision affect the next
 Decision include correct choice at the circumstances
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29.  Dominated strategy: The choice witch is not using in
circumstance is called dominated strategy
 Dominant strategy: The choice witch is use in
circumstance is called dominated strategy
 Near dominant strategy are used in certain
circumstances where above not work
 It is widely use by the player
 Eg of near dominant strategy are given by asking
following question:
 What is the most common feature?
 Is the facility use only once then how much developing
time required?
 How much special efforts are needed to create interface
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30. Different option involve in gameplay
 Option may or may not be taken depending on factor
 Option can have time constraints
 Option does not affect the game much
 Option that is worth being taken
 Option that is never worth being taken
2.Toolbox to assist with choices
 There is no particular method to create choices that are
left to the player
 Strategic choices are made for long term
 Tactic choices are made for short term or current
 There should be enough scope for good judgment
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31. 3.Impermance
Advantage can be impermanent due to following factor
 They can be destroyed, injured, stolen
 Can lost any time, limitation on use
 No use in certain circumstances
 Gameplay enrich your experience and interaction
Interaction can be done in the following ways
 By changing the setting or game itself
 By directly controlling the character
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32.  Vision document and describe final product and
serve as goal to the developer
 When code strictly follow the gameplay
specification then product is ready to release.
1.Responsibility of the designer
 Clarify the designer ideas which taken from many
resources
 Bring them to structural level
 Then decided it should be implemented or give up
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33.  Development phases in gameplay
Phase Process Person Outcome
Feasibility Discussed the initial
idea
Designer , architect,
technology group
Project go ahead
signal from client
Conceptualization Detailing the design Designer Game specification
designer’s note
Plan Planning the mini-
specification for each
stage
Designer and software
planner
Set of mini-
specification
documents
Technical architecture Preparing architecture
component and tool
Architect, project
leader, planner
Technical specification
project plan
Component building Constructing the
component and tool for
game consider
interdependencies
Development team Component that are
functionally complete
Integration Project leaders get the
component created by
the D.TR
Project leader and
designer
Completed part of the
game and tools
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34. Phase Process Person Outcome
Complexity level Project leader
discussed with
level designer to
build the game
level
Project leader,
level designer
Complete game
fore each level,
artwork and
manuals are
finalizes
Review Quality assurance
dept. dose the
review in parallel
with the leveling
Quality assurance
dept.
Bugs are fixed
and feedback are
provided to
developer
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35. Gameplay
specification
Content mapping
Designer node
Module 2
specification
Module 1
specification
Module n
specification
Content mapping of designer’s notes with the game play specification
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36. Each level has the following design items
 Games are developed in an iterative manner
 Most time spiral model chosen
 Each mini-specification (level) is developed and tested
◦ Goal to design this feature is implemented in that level
◦ Philosophy, this level how differ from previous
◦ Expected result is outcome at particular level
◦ Alternate and other idea suggested in brainstorm session
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