Sentences with phrase «think about the game design»

To students considering game design as a career David advises working on improving how you think about game design and making games on a daily basis.

This is how most game designers, myself included, think about the game design process — as selecting options from an imaginary bag of game design elements.

With every trendy indie fan on the planet losing their minds over Spelunky it would be easy to believe that it's the most earth shatteringly inventive game ever made and that it redefines the way we think about game design.

Not exact matches

He said it's better to pay five game designers to sit around for a year and think about and discuss, over lattes, the game they are going to design than to ramp up 200 designers and have them create a bad game because you can't stand not shipping something.

If you had designs on a think piece about the Death of the All - Star Game and What It Means For Baseball, well, have at it.

«When designing their game, they thought about what they like to do when playing games, such as collecting items, creating treasure maps and using a 3 - D board,» says Beth Engelman, spokesperson for the Chicago Toy and Game Fair and the Young Inventors Challegame, they thought about what they like to do when playing games, such as collecting items, creating treasure maps and using a 3 - D board,» says Beth Engelman, spokesperson for the Chicago Toy and Game Fair and the Young Inventors ChalleGame Fair and the Young Inventors Challenge.

The think the best thing about the game is the level design.

Your a real idiot man, ofcourse their not going to talk about it's specs, neither does Microsoft or Sony, tech websites have already taken Wii U apart and looked at it's specs, and said that it's great tech, and the design is clever because of the fact Nintendo is giving you some pretty beefy tech at a low cost, also these tech sites have said, «to see what Wii U is really capable of, we need to see games built for it from the ground up», And Nintendo does have a way better understanding of Wii U's hardware, they were even holding classes at GDC last month to tech indie & 3rd party developers how to cut development time for new games and ported games in half, with a new frame work that they developed specifically for Wii U, and your very stupid if you think that developers are not going to need to learn how to develop for PS4 & the next Xbox.

«We were thinking about making some kind of game that would help us build some 3D graphical experience, and we figured the fighter genre would be the best for that, so I came up with the original design plan.»

This game has been designed to get children to think about what they need to create and sustain a settlement.

Before designing a Game - Based Learning, become a gamer first and then think about how to adapt the game principles in a learning contGame - Based Learning, become a gamer first and then think about how to adapt the game principles in a learning contgame principles in a learning context.

Can designing games about real - world issues teach students empathy, systems thinking, and design thinking?

The pack includes: · Two long colourful display banners of «Pirates» and «Treasure Island» each decorated with pirate themed pictures · A colourful display border to print out as many times as you need for use on a display board of any size · An A4 word card - great to use when writing · Topic words - great to add to display or use in the writing area · Word and picture flashcards · Pirate posters - pictures of different pirates · Colouring pictures - a collection of pirate themed sheets for children to colour · Phoneme coins - all of the phonemes from the Letters and Sounds scheme on gold coins - great for display or to hide in the sand tray for the children to find the «treasure» · Alphabet coins - lower and upper case letters · Bingo - a pirate themed colourful bingo game to make and play · Skull and cross-bone bunting · Pirate phrases on posters · A pirate profile worksheet - draw your pirate and then decide what characteristics your pirate will have - three different versions of this for differentiation · Songs and rhymes about pirates · Play dough mats - can you make 3 more pieces of treasure, can you give the pirates new hats etc · Colourful treasure to cut out and use on displays, in the sand tray etc · Board game - move around the treasure island answering questions along the way to try and reach the treasure first - two levels of maths questions are provided as well as blank question cards · Two pirate themed wordsearches · «My pirate adventure» worksheet · Wanted posters for the children to fill in · Writing pages - Four A4 pages with pirate borders for the children to use when writing · Design a pirate flag worksheet · Search for the treasure game - collect coins along the way to fill your treasure chest · Cut and stick treasure map · Pirate acrostic poem · Speech bubble worksheets - write what you think the different pirates are saying · Counting cards up to 10 - count the number of pirate ships, telescopes etc · Design a pirate ship worksheet · Describe the treasure worksheet · A worksheet for the children to draw and write what they have spotted through the telescope

Instructions for creating a probability game involving a dice or spinner, designed to promote thinking about probability and profit.

MindShift explores how learning is impacted by technology, discoveries about how the brain works, poverty and inequities, social and emotional practices, assessments, digital games, design thinking and music, among many other topics.

What started as an indie game that enabled players to build and craft on their own homegrown servers, Minecraft has grown into a global phenomenon that is transforming how educators think about project - based learning for topics like coding, game design, and engineering.

When it comes to serious game design, the very first step to create educational games is to think about the reason why you are doing it.

As handy as it is, the main keyboard is truncated, which means it really is designed for making numerical entry easier at the sacrifice of alpha - numeric typing (as I think about it, there are a few games out there that could benefit from this little addition as well).

- the scene at the beginning of a ceremony caused Shimamura a bit of trouble - the lines of the ritual did not properly reflect Zelda's personality, her motivations, her powerlessness, and awkwardness - Shimamura talked about it with Naoki Mori (who was in charge of Cinematic Design, including screenplay, and cutscenes)- the whole thing was rewritten several times, until they arrived at the final result - there's quite a lot of scenes she really likes in the game - her favorite line is the «Yes» Princess Zelda gives as an answer to the Deku Tree in a particular scene - in that scene, Zelda thinks about what she should do, but she can not see it at all - she refuses to give up, and wants to give hope to Link - Shimamura tried to convey all of those feelings through the single «Yes» she spoke - recording felt completely different than for animation, the dubbing of (foreign) movies, or other games - there was no fixed routine of how to approach it, as all different things were being tried out - lines were redone even after other lines were implemented in the game, as the team found better ways to say things - Shimamura finally managed to beat the game the other day, but she wants to keep practicing her shield surfing - Shimamura explains that she really gave it her whole when voicing Princess Zelda, to give her emotions - she hopes that players will remember their memories of Princess Zelda

In extreme examples, some games are designed so that the players will be so excited psychologically as a result of, for example, being able to obtain a very rare item that they do not think twice about pushing the button, which immediately completes the monetary transaction and the player is charged with the bill.

yeah the whole day / night cycle I don't think it's like they couldn't fit it in there probably a design choice that they as game developers decided that's a more immersive experience I trust sucker punch infamous 2 was well above my expectations I could care less about any of this anyway I just want to see all the powers in action on my 50»: O

Aha, once again it is time to pick the best posts of the week from big sister site Gamasutra and elsewhere on our Think Services sites / blogs - headed up by a pair of fine features talking about production and game design.

«I think our team has learned so much about this genre of game design and we still have a lot of unique and interesting ideas that I think could make another great game,» she notes.

::) Damn it, Nintendo, I used to think you were smart enough not to map essential game functions to unreliable controls, but I guess you're just too busy counting your profits from the Wii to care about good game design all the time anymore.

Shortly after The Beginner's Guide «s release, Brendan Keogh theorized about two ways of thinking about making a game: design in which the player is at its center, versus making a fine - tuned machine where the player is the least reliable part of it.

The combination of smart, stealth - based puzzle design and quick burst levels that typically take between 30 seconds and 2 minutes to solve, totally engrossed me to the point where this was the only game I could think about playing.

From that day video games were all she thought about day or night, be it playing them, designing them, discussing them or writing about them.

Her thoughts really hit home and rekindled bad memories — along with thoughts about designing games with OCD players in mind.

I don't really have a favorite game designer I think, because when I say that I like a game designer I'm probably talking about the games they designed.

We spoke with the game's core team, designer / programmer Kyle Pulver and designer / artist Peter Jones, about Snapshot — which was nominated for an Excellence in Design award at this year's Independent Games Festival (part of Think Services, as is this website).

Still I think designing a mic accessory that doesn't provide the flexibility of being about to be used while holding a controller is very short sighted and is going to greatly limit the potential of games that use this.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

In an interview with NotEnoughShaders Xander talks about how working on Triple - A titles isn't the dream job that people think it is: «As my first industry job, I lived on an air - mattress and could only afford to rent rooms from stranger to stranger month to month on Craigslist for an entire year while designing UI for a multi-million dollar grossing console game.

It seems developer IO Interactive purposefully put more sting in the weapons as its difficult to keep your reticle on target, but in a game all about stealth I enjoyed this design decision and it made me think twice before giving up on a carefully planned approach to instead shoot my way out.

First, let me say that about half of what started me thinking about this was a discussion with my friend Pat, the Narrative Designer on my project, who pointed out a few brilliant things about the HUD design in GRAW that tied in in a nice way with my own currently developing thoughts on Camera in games in general.

Think about it — he's got a unique design, 3 games behind him, and a wide arsenal of psychic powers at his disposal.

«We thought about what we could do to bring [games] back to their roots, and design them in a way to appeal to a broader, more casual audience,» he said, noting that smartphones represent an even broader platform for our era.

The game's visuals is nothing short but beautiful, with it and its level design as well as its mechanic provide a certain level of intrigue, pushing me towards wanting to explore every corner of each section and wonder what awaits me in the next one, all the while I'd be thinking about the possible story this facility has to provide.

With a solid foundation of a game system, an entire island's worth of little juicy details to discover and draw out, and a distribution of these elements that follow a sound train of logic when you think about it, I believe Bastard Bonds ranks up there with Dark Souls in terms of cohesive game design.

I think the Short Pause review hits on all the same points I'd make about the game: It's a challenging, fast - paced, side - scrolling action game; it's old school by design, and the story lacks depth; the environments are sterile, if a bit repetitive.

-- 30:33 Kellee's thoughts about the history of games design.

«We want them to learn the basics of level design, and start to think about the strategy and creativity that goes into creating games»

This design philosophy is a primary influence on how I think about design in my own games, but clearly my own games don't embody all the things that immersive sims grew to contain: emergent AI behaviors, a wide range of expressive player abilities, upgrades, weapons, stealth options, and more.

Now, I'm not going to mince words when it comes to how I feel about it: not everything here is successful, and the game can be downright frustrating when it comes to some of its design elements, but I do think players who go in with the right mindset will find a lot to love.

I'd recommend it to anyone studying game design or thinking about going into the computer games industry!

I'll never forget something that I learned from the first professional Lead Game Designer that I met: when he gave talks to students about making videogames professionally, he challenged them to think about how they'd go about the game design for Jar - Jar Binks RacGame Designer that I met: when he gave talks to students about making videogames professionally, he challenged them to think about how they'd go about the game design for Jar - Jar Binks Racgame design for Jar - Jar Binks Racing.

«I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle.

It's not the best example of this approach to game design, but it had me thinking about those design philosophies and how important they are to gaming as a whole.

One of the things I love about the role - playing genre is the ability to design a character, taking care to think up their skills, backstory and personality, even though these elements are not necessarily representable within the game world.

Think of Platinum's main principles when it comes to game design and you're just about there; Iroh runs the shop where Korra can purchase moves and items, pots and hidden crates can be smashed for currency, well - timed counters often hold the key to victory and other benders serve as the real challenge when it comes to enemy types.