Game Design 18/7

One Pager

Game Design - Writing your game.

• Make a title
• Who is the game design for?
• What is the gameplay style?
• What is the goal of the game?
• Rewards and gratifications

Loglines

• One or two sentences describing the story
• Embody the essence of the story
• Main Character
• Motivations
• What do they want/need
• Whats stopping them achieving their game
• Whats unique or compelling about the game

Story/Lore

• Whats the back story?
• Even simple lore helps drive the game
• reason for the gameplay
• explains the rewards
• explains the environments
• Helps develop fan base, merch, collectables, fan art.

Game Writer

• Concerned with the narrative
• Writes the script
• structures the story flow
• helps with the script elements/storyboarding

Game Flow

• Gameplay can be linear or non-linear - uses flow charts to show all variations and for organisation.

HOMEWORK

Look through the game design story and embellish it further. (use the document on blackboard to find out what I need) 

Turn the one pager into a 5 pager

• Logline
• Paragraph summary of the story
• World Description with completed artwork
• Character bio with completed artwork
• Mechanics with sketches
• Internal economy with sketches
• Other games with a similar style that were inspiration