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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog
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VGD 180 - Game Theory and Design Principles
Description: Introduction to major topics in video game design, game design basics, designing a game, and working as a game designer. Emphasis on the principles of game design through identifying, comparing, and contrasting examples of design elements in various pre-existing games.
Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0
Course Content:
- Roles of game designer
- Structure of game
- Working with formal elements
- Working with dramatic elements
- Working with system dynamics
- Conceptualization
- Prototyping
- Digital Prototyping
- Playtesting
- Functionality, completeness, and balance
- Fun and accessibility
- Team structure
- Stages and methods of development
- Communicating game Ideas
Learning Outcomes:
- Discuss and explain major aspects of the game design process. (1-14)
- Identify, compare, and contrast examples of specific design elements in various pre-existing games. (1-14)
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