Category Game Design

All about game design.

Game Design

This section is about designing the overall experience for the player.

• 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

Level Design

This section is about designing game environments, also called "levels".

• Level Design Help Files, a collection of help sites for level design themed files - from the MapCore forums
• Environment Artist: The Story Teller - by Adam "adamBrome" Bromell
• How To Develop A Map That Works - from The Valve Developer Community
• Map Planning - from the Unreal Wiki
• Ben's Small Bible of Realistic Multiplayer Level Design by Benjamin Bauer
• What Is Level Design? - by Sérgio Duarte
• Level Design: Concept, Theory, and Practice ($) - by Rudolf Kremers
• The Hows and Whys of Level Design ($) - by Sjoerd "hourences" De Jong
• Chapter 7 - Reward Systems, except from the book "Level Design: Concept, Theory and Practice" by Rudolf Kremers

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 Random Encounters, 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

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