文档介绍：The Game Development Process
Game Design
Outline
The Creative Process
Core Design
Postmortems
Nurturing the Creative Process
Creativity is not intellectual anarchy
Thoughts are associative – generate new ideas bining others (picture of lattice of association)
Trick is to notice patterns in association
Say, similarity between post office delivery work traffic routing
Facilitate creative process
Stuff head with concepts and associations
Can’t notice association between Post Office work Routing if don’t know anything about either
How? Read (All great game designers?)
Based on Ch 7, On Game Design, by Chris Crawford and Ch , The Game Development Process
Nurturing the Creative Process - Read
Make reading a lifelong process
Broaden your reading
More than SciFi and Fantasy books
History, Religion, Politics, Culture
Game Design books
Wonder as you read (“Why is the sky blue? Why do some coins have serrations on their edges?…”)
Tightens up Web of associations
Find answers to “wonders”
Once you find why sky is blue, will tell you why sunset is red (tightens associations further)
Help build overall creative foundation
Based on Ch 7, On Game Design, by Chris Crawford and Ch , The Game Development Process
Nurturing the Creative Process – Play Games
More puter games – board games
Columbia Games, Avalon Hill, RPGs
Example: LOTR Confrontation, Reiner Knizia
puter games, broaden
Pick titles you would not otherwise play
Like FPS games? Fine. But try different genres
e a “student” of games. Learn from them.
Bargain bin, even, maybe not great games but maybe great ideas
Based on Ch 7, On Game Design, by Chris Crawford and Ch , The Game Development Process
Nurturing the Creative Process – Sources of Inspiration
Perhaps games not as broad as film
Shoot ‘em ups like “Alien”
RPG’s like “D&D”
Safe: “It’s like Medal of Honor but in Desert Storm”… how creative is that?
Draw upon wide range of sources for inspiration
Opera, Movies with subtitles, Random lectures, scub