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Game Design

Build practical understanding of goals, rules, systems, feedback, balance, player experience, and playtesting, then use it for developing playable game concepts and improving them from tests.

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Level
Beginner to competitive foundations
Interest area
Games and tech
Learning outcomes
4 focused outcomes

Topic overview

Learn the foundations of Game Design.

Game Design connects goals, rules, systems, feedback, balance, player experience, and playtesting with practical decisions and tasks. Guided examples, comparison, practice, and feedback help members apply these ideas to developing playable game concepts and improving them from tests. The goal is to make each step easier to explain, check, and improve.

Learning outcomes for Game Design

  1. 1

    Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in goals, rules, systems, feedback, balance, player experience, and playtesting

  2. 2

    Follow a repeatable process for developing playable game concepts and improving them from tests

  3. 3

    Compare examples, identify common mistakes, and improve an approach

  4. 4

    Complete an independent game design task and reflect on the result

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How to learn Game Design step by step.

01

Build the foundation

Explain the main ideas and vocabulary involved in goals, rules, systems, feedback, balance, player experience, and playtesting

02

Practise with feedback

Follow a repeatable process for developing playable game concepts and improving them from tests

03

Practise with feedback

Compare examples, identify common mistakes, and improve an approach

04

Apply and reflect

Complete an independent game design task and reflect on the result

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