This document discusses the key elements that game designers consider when developing a game, including narrative design, character design, level/environment design, gameplay/game mechanics design, and user interface design. It provides examples for each element, such as narrative focusing on the story and characters, character design covering the main character and other actors, level design setting challenges through the background and map, and gameplay determining the type of challenges, activities, and rules. The document encourages analyzing these elements in existing games and applying what is learned to starting to design your own game.

1. Games Design
Elements
In this lesson we are going to
explore Games Design Elements
and use what we will learn to start
designing our own game.

2.  The areas which the Games Designers
have to consider when designing a game.

3.  Narrative design
 Character design
 Level / environment design
 Gameplay and game mechanics design
 User interface design

4.  The Story behind the game.
 Is there someone to save? Somewhere to
escape from?

5.  When we think of character design we
think of the following things:
• Main character / sidekick/ villain / shop owner
(sprite)
• Objects the player interacts with
• ( for example the mushrooms from super mario!)
• Players / Actors / avatars
• ( xbox connect with augmented reality
• or Miis in Wii console games,
• LA Noir uses real actors first then
• characters are developed)

6.  The level and the environment not only sets the
scene for the player it can also set challenges.
 Things to consider:
• Background, Lighting, weather, map, props
etc.

7.  How the game works.
 Things to consider are:
• Types of challenges, activities, rewards,
progression, game rules, skill, chance.

8.  Design elements such as:
• Control (input) devices
• Output devices
• Viewpoint
• Heads up Display (HUD)

10.  Look at three games of your choice and
tell me a little about:
 Narrative design
 Character design
 Level / environment design
 Gameplay and game mechanics design
 User interface design