2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Oct 08, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

VGD 280 - Game Design Documentation and Marketing


Description: Hands-on experience with principles of game design documentation. Emphasis on creating a video game design document proposal, with accompanying design documents, marketing materials, and financial projections.

Prerequisites: VGD 180  

Credits: 4
Lecture: 4
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Making games
  2. Game play and game mechanics
  3. Math and logic
  4. Movement
  5. Combat
  6. Items
  7. Puzzles
  8. Storytelling
  9. Designing playfields
  10. Interface design
  11. Financial projections
  12. Characteristics of effective game proposals
  13. Marketing tools 

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Compose a video game design document proposal. (1-12)
  2. Create a financial projection detailing the costs of the game project. (9 - 12) 
  3. Integrate a marketing campaign. (10 - 12)