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Game World
The document discusses various aspects of designing game worlds, including physical, time, environmental, cultural, and emotional elements. Physical aspects include the spatial dimensions, scale, and borders of the game world. Time aspects cover time limits, variable pacing, anomalous time effects, and letting players adjust the speed of time. Environmental aspects relate to the physical surroundings, artwork style, and cultural context. Emotional aspects involve eliciting emotions in players through storytelling, social interactions, and fun gameplay.
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- 1. Game World Computer Games MartinSillaots Aug 7 2019 #08 Game World
- 2. Game World • Artwork • Visual stile • Entertaining element • Selling element
- 3. Game World DesignAspects • Physical • Time • Environmental and cultural • Emotional • Ethical
- 4. Physical Aspects • Spatialdimension • Scale • Borders
- 5. Spatial - 4thDimension? http://www.universetoday.com/40977/4th-dimension/
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- 8. Time Aspects ofGame World • Time limits • Variable time • Anomalous time • Player adjusting time
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- 10. Variable Time Climate Challenge- turn based game Time Mesh - time jumps
- 11. Anomalous Time Rise ofan Empire time flows differently Age of Empires collecting berries takes years
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- 13. Environmental Aspects • Physicalsurrounding – Artwork – Style • Details • Cultural context
- 14. Details • Include asmuch detail as you can • Don’t harm gameplay Ludo Lauamangupood
- 15. Cultural Aspects • Beliefs •Attitudes • Values • Political • Religious • Social
- 16. Emotional Aspects • Playersemotions • Through storytelling • Through socializing • Fun or Entertaining
- 17. Game Emotions • Thrill •Agony • Frustration • Greed • Control • Ambitious • Surprise • Fear
- 18. Ethical Aspects • Differentfrom real world ethics • Kill bad, support good • Does videogames cause violence? Counter Strike Global OffenceAngry Birds
- 19. Mission # 8 Sketchyour game world
- 20. Game World MissionDerails • Map or layout or model your game world • Sketch Spaces or locations (scenes) • Define paths and mission points (connections between scenes or challenges) • Allocate characters • Place items • Add names to the game world items
- 21. e.g. Sketch ofTime Mesh WW2 Paris Chapter
- 22. e.g. Sketch ofTime Mesh WW2 Warsaw Chapter
- 23. e.g. Sketch ofTime Mesh WW2 Bletchley Chapter
- 24. e.g. Sketch ofTime Mesh WW2 Ljubljana Chapter
Editor's Notes
- #2 Imaginary place Artificial universe Magic Circle Pretended place
- #3 Player interacts with game world Art work – aesthetics, Important to casual players – entertaining element Core players focus on game play (forgot world)
- #5 Spatial – 2; 2,5; 3; 4 (Frodo ring in the finger ???) Scale – size of the world and items Borders – what to do when player reach to the edge?
- #6 Frodo ring in the finger?
- #7 Scale – size of the world and items Civilization – strategy game
- #8 Borders – what to to when player reach to the edge? Flapping flat - http://tjstreaksnotsonaughtysims.blogspot.com/2011/10/experimental-flat-distant-terrain.html Sphere illusion - https://www.garagegames.com/community/forums/viewthread/49354 Mission points - http://www.eagerdepot.com/mission-spawn-points.html
- #9 Nights, seasons are missing (maybe for atmosphere) - Slenderman - night ON NEXT SLIDE Time limits – only for short missions Variable time time jumps turn based Anomalous time – time flows differently in different game items – tree grows faster than time spent for producing weapon (The Settlers: Rise of an Empire) - short actions last longer – collecting berries takes years (Age of Empires) – symbolic meaning Player adjusting time – good for testing - Needed casual players
- #10 Time limits – only for short missions or puzzles
- #12 – time flows differently for different game items – tree grows faster than time spent for producing weapon (The Settlers: Rise of an Empire) - short actions last longer – collecting berries takes years (Age of Empires) – symbolic meaning - Sims – cleaning room takes weeks?
- #13 – good for testing Needed casual players FIFA 2011 – shorten the half time
- #14 Appearance Atmosphere Style: Nature of items (e.g. time period - medieval) Outlook of items (e.g. presentation stile - Bosh) – creates atmosphere
- #15 How rich the world will be? Level of realism Available design time and machine resources Puzzle picture – find items starting with K, as much as possible.
- #16 Reflected through items Backstory People in the game. What are their:
- #17 Some emotions are not fun. jealousy, anger, sorrow, guilt What about making sad game? – Entertaining YES, Not fun. Slender
- #18 Thrill - victory Agony – losing Frustration – challenges Greed – business simulations Control - Power Surprise Fear
- #19 What is right and what is wrong? Part of game culture America’s Army – recruiting tool Violence is part of human nature Question – how to portrait violence in the game? How realistic it is?