PlayerOne - Seminars Introduction

LUCA GALLI@Leyart86

PLAYER ONEVideogame Design for all

Introduction

ABOUT ME

LUCA GALLI

Director of Production – Moonsubmarine ltd

Shushing Fairy

Ph.D. - Politecnico di Milano

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• BACKGROUND & INTERESTS

• Robotics & Artificial Intelligence

• Game Design

• Crowdsourcing e Human Computation

Goal of this course is simple: know each other, share a passion and learn how to bring it on!

Make (possibly good) games!

BLOODBORNE

JOHN ROMERO

ARE ALL AAA GAMES GOOD?

INDIE GAMES

(AND WHY YOU SHOULD LOVE THEM)

SUPER MEAT BOY

BRAID

BRAID – THE REAL GAME

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132147/the_art_of_braid_creating_a_.php

MEAT BOY – THE REAL GAME

THE UNFINISHED SWAN

SPACETEAM

JOHANN SEBASTIAN JOUST

PAPA SANGRE

WHY NO MINECRAFT?

SHAME ON YOU IF YOU DON’T KNOW IT :)

SERIOUS GAMES – CONVEY MESSAGES

Darfur is Dying Budget Hero

GAMES WITH A PURPOSE – SOLVE A PROBLEM

The ESP Game FoldIt

WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT

• This is course is highly experimental. It will be a crash course about game design and (video) game development for hobbysts. We will try to cover as much as possible but the only thing that fuels your skills will be your effort and your passion to discover more and more. Highly experimental means that you will actually have to DO STUFF to learn something.

• Besides some lessons, the course WILL BE TECHNICAL.This means that I will NOT teach the basics of programming, that takes entire university courses to be accomplished.

• This does not mean that you will not be able to reach your goal: you will learn how to refine ideas and mechanics for boardgames that could be turned even by non-programmers to real videogames with just a bit of effort and the right tools.

• Every week on the website the seminars will be listed with one of three different difficulty level:

• EASY: Open to everyone, no technical skills required

• MEDIUM: Open to everyone, requiring a Notebook, the required tools installed and a bit of patience in order to accomplish something

• NIGHTMARE: for programmers only.

WHAT IS THIS COURSE ABOUT

• Introduction to Game Design 11/06 - EASY

• Rapid videogame prototyping with Construct 2 18/06 – MEDIUM

• Javascript Game Programming with ImpactJS 25/06 – NIGHTMARE

• Game Jam Crash Course + Game Jam Session 02/07 – EASY/MEDIUM

• Game Jam Session 09/07 – EASY/MEDIUM

• What went wrong? Traditional Game Design: Conceptualization, Formal and

Dramatic Elements, The Game Design Document 16/07 – EASY

• Introduction to Unity3D: Basic Concepts 23/07 – NIGHTMARE

• Game Jam Session 30/07 – EASY/MEDIUM

• See you back again in September :)

CREATE TOGETHER

Card Hunter, Blue Manchu Pty Ltd, TBR

PROJECT VOLPHANTE

Let’s get this sorted out right now. We are Italians, so we could have

written all the slides in our language, it would have been easier and it

would have taken less time. So why have we chosen English?

Because as a game designer you will NEED to be able to Speak, Read

AND Write in English at a pretty good level. English is the main

language in the game developer community and Internet in general and

most (if not all) the good books about game design are written in

English.

So, lesson one. If you can’t understand all this stuff you are not ready to

be a good Game Designer.

You should have listened to that pesky English teacher at High School!

Why are all the slides in

English?!

GREAT OPPORTUNITY UNTIL 15/06/2015!

OTHER USEFUL SOURCES AND GAMES

http://www.gamesradar.com/amazing-indie-games-youve-never-played-indie-devs-

you-love/

OTHER GAMES TO PLAY

Super Crate Box http://www.supercratebox.com/

SpaceChem http://spacechemthegame.com/

Continuity http://continuitygame.com/playcontinuity.html http://continuitygame.com/

Bit Trip Beat http://www.aksysgames.com/bittripbeat/

World of Goo http://www.worldofgoo.com/

Fotonicahttp://www.fotonica-game.com/

Osmos

http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/

vvvvvvv

http://thelettervsixtim.es/

Canabalt

http://www.adamatomic.com/canabalt/

Fract

http://fractgame.com/

Frozen Synapse http://www.frozensynapse.com/

Revenge of Titans

http://www.puppygames.net/revenge-of-thetitans/

THE SPONSOR