Game Design – Grundlagen

Summer

(engl. Game Design – Foundations )

Modulnummer: FIN-INF-102835

Link zum LSF:	LSF
Verantwortung:	Holger Theisel
Dozent:in:	Johannes Hauffe, Christian Sandkämper (Just2D Interactive GmbH)
Lehrveranstaltungen:	Vorlesung Game Design Grundlagen Übung Game Design Grundlagen
Verwendbarkeit:	- B.Sc. INF: Informatik - Wahlpflicht - B.Sc. INF: Studienprofil: Computer Games - B.Sc. CV: Informatik - Wahlpflicht - B.Sc. CV: Anwendungsfach - Computer Games - B.Sc. INGINF: Informatik - Wahlpflicht - B.Sc. WIF: Gestalten und Anwenden - Wahlpflicht - B.Sc. INF (bilingual): Informatik - Wahlpflicht

Kürzel GDG

CP 5

Semester Summer

Fachsem. ab 1.

Dauer 1 Semester

Sprache deutsch

Niveau Bachelor

Angestrebte Lernergebnisse:
The students ...

• know basic concepts of game design
• know how to design a world and how to deal with player feedback
• are able to use strategies and techniques to design characters and dialogs
• can critically analyze game mechanics, game experiences and feedback
• can name improvements and optimizations

Inhalt:

• Game Design: Definitions;
• Tasks of a game designer
• The structure of games: Components of a game
• The structure of games: Theme, vision, PoV and genre
• Game design: world design
• Game design: character design
• Game design: setting, background story and plot
• Game design: Puzzles, tasks and obstacles
• Game design: balancing and testing
• The game and the game designer
• The game and the player
• Documentation techniques
• Communication: the designer and the team

The content presented relates to current research and is supplemented with experience from the business world.

Arbeitsaufwand:
56h attendance time + 94h independent work

Prüfungsvorleistungen:	Studien-/Prüfungsleistungen:	Lehrform / SWS:
	Written examination, 120 min	2 SWS Lecture 2 SWS Exercise

Voraussetzungen nach Prüfungsordnung:	Empfohlene Voraussetzungen:
none	Einführung in Digitale Spiele

Medienformen:	Literatur:
	Raph Koster: A Theory of Fun. Paraglyph Press, 2005 Jesse Schell: The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses. CRC Press, 2008 Tracy Fullerton: Game Design Workshop: A Playcentric Approach to Creating Innovative Games. CRC Press, 2008

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