Learning Game Design- Part 2

Learning Game Design: Part 2, available at $29.99, has an average rating of 3.5, with 88 lectures, 3 quizzes, based on 5 reviews, and has 49 subscribers.

You will learn about Improve your success playing multi-sided conflict games Understand how negotiation works (it may not be what you think) Learn a process and structure for designing games Learn what makes a game Good – not quite what you think Learn the vital importance of repeated playtesting and modification, the heart of game design Create and COMPLETE a game through the two courses. This is likely to take a long time, likely much longer than it takes to go through the course lectures And much more . . . This course is ideal for individuals who are Anyone who wants help in designing games, professionally or as a hobby It is particularly useful for Anyone who wants help in designing games, professionally or as a hobby.

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Summary

Title: Learning Game Design: Part 2

Price: $29.99

Average Rating: 3.5

Number of Lectures: 88

Number of Quizzes: 3

Number of Published Lectures: 88

Number of Published Quizzes: 3

Number of Curriculum Items: 91

Number of Published Curriculum Objects: 91

Original Price: $29.99

Quality Status: approved

Status: Live

What You Will Learn

Improve your success playing multi-sided conflict games

Understand how negotiation works (it may not be what you think)

Learn a process and structure for designing games

Learn what makes a game Good – not quite what you think

Learn the vital importance of repeated playtesting and modification, the heart of game design

Create and COMPLETE a game through the two courses. This is likely to take a long time, likely much longer than it takes to go through the course lectures

And much more . . .

Who Should Attend

Anyone who wants help in designing games, professionally or as a hobby

Target Audiences

Anyone who wants help in designing games, professionally or as a hobby

[Note: This course exists because my original course “Learning Game
Design: as a job or a hobby” more than doubled in size over time,
becoming much too large for Udemy’s new structure. That massive course
is no longer available, instead there is “Learning Game Design” parts 1
and 2. As with that original course, this one is not subject to massive
discounts, which only serve to offend those who paid full or near-full
price.]

This pair of “Learning Game Design” courses (this is Part 2) is designed for people who want to design
games – video or tabletop – but lack information about what is really
involved and how to go about it. It’s not rocket science, but
commercial design is a JOB – one that cannot be done by rote, there is
no “Easy Button”. I’m not here to encourage you, or entice you, or entertain you,
I’m here to inform you. I assume you have the motivation to learn how
to design games, you just need to know how. And that means you need to
do it from start to finish, to complete games rather than merely start
them.

We’ll discuss the
process of game design, the possible structures in games, the best way
to start learning game design, what makes a game good (there’s a great
variety of opinion about this), ways to provide a framework for your
design efforts, ways to keep records of your work, software to help you
learn. Many aspiring game designers have crippling misconceptions (such
as the notion that it’s all about a great idea, or that everyone likes
the same games they do), and I’ll try to clear those out of
your way.

This is not a “comprehensive” series because there’s no such thing. It is a pair of courses about
learning game design. Learning is a process that goes on throughout a game
designer’s career, and it starts here.

This class will never be offered for free or at very deep discounts.
That is disrespectful to me and to the students who pay full price or
near it.

Keep in mind, this course is not about game development, that is, not
about programming, art, sound, and so forth. It is only about game
design.Most so-called “game design” courses are actually about game
development, with just a little game design involved.

Following are comments from people who took the original course “Learning Game Design: as a job or a hobby”:

Great course! Good for the starter like myself 馃檪

Currently I follow this course (at 75% so far) and its a great
course for beginner game designers like myself. The course is not a 1
click button and after your a game designer no (please send message if
you found that course btw) but it gives a good frame work, hand outs,
ideas and background about both video games and tabletop games.

So if you wanted to start with game design this is a great first step.

The teacher is clear and good to follow ( I am a student from The
Netherlands and got no problem following this course). Also the course
got some assignment I strongly recommend doing them I finaly found out
why I Hate Monopoly 馃檪

Cheers all hope this was usefull,

Jimmy

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Mark Frazier

President

Designs In Creative Entertainment, LLC.

An ideal introduction to game design

Dr. Pulsipher distills the critical elements of designing games into
manageable chunks. This is an ideal course to take if you are
interested in designing games, regardless of whether you intend to
pursue it as a career or not.

Much of the
material covers the specifics of the process of game design, but there
is alot of prime advice to be had in the lectures on creating the right
conditions for quality feedback and on understanding the realities of
the publishing business.

A must-have certification if you’re serious about designing, and I’d say, even publishing games!

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Pull Back the Curtain on the Game Design Process

I know that in the past there’s only been a couple of times that I
managed to blunder into some sort of prototype, but I had no clue as to
what I was doing that was different than usual. Well the material in
this course nails down precisely what to do to get over that initial
hump. It can save you from countless false starts and dumb ideas. And
unlike other commentary on the design process, Dr. Pulsipher provides a
whole menu of things that you can do in each phase of development.

This material reveals more of the dials and knobs of gaming than I
even knew existed. And being aware of these things was enough to shift
me from having an occasional promising idea to having more ideas than I
know what to do with. Even just playing new games now, I cannot help but
see “behind the curtain” and into the dilemmas the designers were
facing. If you care about game design and actually do the work that this
course entails, you are in for a profoundly illuminating experience.

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: What youll discover

Lecture 2: Introducing the teacher

Lecture 3: Interaction

Lecture 4: Assessment

Lecture 5: Course Length – Depends on How Long Your Game Takes

Lecture 6: Supplemental Books and other material

Chapter 2: What Makes a Game Good?

Lecture 1: Stratego: Good and Bad

Lecture 2: What is the Player Going to DO?

Lecture 3: The Evolution of Games Part 1

Lecture 4: The Evolution of Games Part 2

Lecture 5: The Target Audience

Lecture 6: Kinds of Fun

Lecture 7: Varying Aims of Designers – not Just Fun

Lecture 8: The Role of Story

Lecture 9: Theme and Atmosphere

Lecture 10: Pacing

Lecture 11: World Building and Realism

Lecture 12: Evaluating Game Qualities

Lecture 13: Symmetry and Asymmetry

Lecture 14: 21st Century Game Characteristics

Lecture 15: All I needed to know about game design I learned from Dungeons & Dragons, Part 1

Lecture 16: All I needed to know about game design I learned from Dungeons & Dragons, Part 2

Lecture 17: Harmony and the Kludge, Part 1

Lecture 18: Harmony and the Kludge, Part 2

Lecture 19: Game Design versus Player Experience, Part 1

Lecture 20: Game Design versus Player Experience, Part 2

Lecture 21: Why do so many gamers want their games to be stories?

Lecture 22: Flexibility in Games

Lecture 23: Risk Exercise

Lecture 24: Where are you with your game design assigned in Part 1 (2)

Chapter 3: Making a Playable Prototype

Lecture 1: Making a Paper Prototype

Lecture 2: Making a Software Prototype

Lecture 3: Some examples of prototype construction

Lecture 4: Video capture of video game prototype

Lecture 5: Continuation of video capture of video game prototype

Lecture 6: Characteristics of Boards

Lecture 7: Example of a mapping program – Campaign Cartographer

Lecture 8: My take on the problems with Risk

Lecture 9: Game Interfaces

Lecture 10: Feedback to the Player

Lecture 11: An example of interface improvement in a tabletop prototype

Lecture 12: Some Risk exercise solutions

Lecture 13: Are you ready to make your prototype?

Chapter 4: Playtesting: the Heart of Game Design

Lecture 1: What Playtesting is NOT!

Lecture 2: The Process of Playtesting and Modification

Lecture 3: Stages of Playtesting

Lecture 4: Have you playtested your prototype solo?

Lecture 5: What to Watch for in a Playtest Session – Part 1

Lecture 6: What to Watch for in a Playtest Session – Part 2

Lecture 7: Kinds of Playtesters

Lecture 8: What to do with the Feedback

Lecture 9: Emergent behavior and Playtesting

Lecture 10: Game Balance

Lecture 11: The Progressive Stages of Playtesting

Chapter 5: Other considerations

Lecture 1: How are Level Design and Game Design Related?

Lecture 2: Marketing, Licensing. Agents, Consultants, Funding, Publishing

Lecture 3: Marketing Yourself

Lecture 4: Hits, Virality, and fan Toxicity in video games

Lecture 5: Free-to-play Games

Lecture 6: Six different goals for commercial games

Lecture 7: Discoverability

Lecture 8: Fallacies You Wont Want to Fall Into

Lecture 9: Legislating against behavior as opposed to changing the gameplay

Lecture 10: Research for Games

Lecture 11: Game Design (and Marketing) style of CollectibleCardGames/TCG/LCG, part 1

Lecture 12: Game Design (and Marketing) style of CollectibleCardGames/TCG/LCG, part 2

Lecture 13: Co-operative Games

Lecture 14: Six reasons why wargame popularity has plummeted

Lecture 15: Natural formats for games: examples

Lecture 16: Dice, Probability, and Superstition

Lecture 17: Dice: When to Use Them, When Not To

Lecture 18: Designers have a responsibility to limit how players can cheat

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Lecture 1: My upgrades to Stratego

Lecture 2: Organized Practice

Lecture 3: Your Game Design Portfolio

Lecture 4: Coping with Destructive Criticism

Lecture 5: One page whats important in game design

Lecture 6: Maxims of Game Design

Lecture 7: Where are you with your game design (3)

Lecture 8: Good once, good thrice, always good: what kind of game do you want to make?

Lecture 9: Quick How to Play Britannia (designer helping potential players)

Lecture 10: Conclusion

Chapter 7: Section containing miscellaneous material, formerly call Bonus Materials

Lecture 1: Why I wrote my book Game Design

Lecture 2: What makes my Game Design book unusual or unique

Lecture 3: World Boardgaming Championships Annual Game Design talk 2013. part 1

Lecture 4: World Boardgaming Championships Annual Game Design talk 2013, part 2

Lecture 5: Origins Game Fair 2008: Breaking into the Tabletop Game Industry

Chapter 8: Final Section

Lecture 1: Bonus Lecture about my other courses, published games, RPG column

Instructors

Lewis Pulsipher
Commercially Published Game Designer, College Teacher

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