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Category Game Design

Game design is about creating the overall game experience for the player.

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Game Design Resources

• Warren Spector's Commandments of Game Design - by Warren Spector
• The Anatomy of a Design Document, Part 1: Documentation Guidelines for the Game Concept and Proposal 1999 article for Gamasutra by Tim Ryan
• Game Pitches repository for video game pitches and design documents - by Jon Jones
• Design Techniques and Ideals from The Art of Computer Game Design - by Chris Crawford
• The 400 Project - by Hal Barwood & Noah Falstein
• VideoGameDesignTerms
• Visual Semiotics - from Wikipedia<
  >Environments involve the player more if they have several layers of thinking behind their design.
• What is a visual metaphor? - from Answers.com

Game Design Blogs

• Life of a Design Monkey - a blog by Mark Davies, game designer at Ninja Theory
• Random Encounters in Imaginary Realms - a blog by an anonymous game designer
• Lost Garden - a blog by Danc, game designer
• CliffyB.com - a blog by Cliff Bleszinski, game designer at Epic Games
• Level Design - a blog by David Alexander Johnston, freelance game designer

More Information

• the design of gameplay spaces, levels, and environments.

  techniques for creating reusable environment meshes.