Game design

Game design is the art of applying design and aesthetics to create a game.

For original games by myself and others, see: Games by Karl Jones and Friends.

Description

Game design facilitates interaction between players for playful, healthful, educational, or simulation purposes.

Game design can be applied both to games and, increasingly, to other interactions, particularly virtual ones (see gamification).

Game design creates goals, rules, and challenges to define a sport, tabletop game, casino game, video game, role-playing game, or simulation that produces desirable interactions among its participants and, possibly, spectators.

Academically, game design is part of game studies, while game theory studies strategic decision making (primarily in non-game situations).

Games have historically inspired seminal research in the fields of probability, artificial intelligence, economics, and optimization theory.

Applying game design to itself is a current research topic in metadesign.

See also

• Board game
• Card game
• Dice game
• Design
• Game
• HTML5 framework
• melonJS
• Tiled
• Unreal (series)

External links

• Game design @ Wikipedia.com

Blogs

• Stacy Davidson's Adventures in Game Development

Algorithms

• Algorithm games
• Intro to algorithms - guess game @ khanacademy.org
• Collection of Game algorithms
• Algorithms for Computer Games @ staff.cs.utu.fi
• The Chaos Game - The goal of the Chaos Game is to improve students' geometric intuition and algorithmic thinking.
• Game Trees by Yosen Lin
• Game Algorithms by Paul Hsieh
• Using a Genetic Algorithm to Create Adaptive Enemy AI
• Game Development Algorithms list
• Machine Learning in Games by Jay Scott
• Game Tree Search Algorithms, including Alpha-Beta Search by Andrew Moore
• A-STAR Pathfinding AI for HTML5 Canvas Games by Christer Kaitila
• Monte Carlo Tree Search for Game AI by Job Vranish - see Monte Carlo tree search
• Algorithm learning games - "We introduce a new learning strategy that benefits from computer games popularity and engagement to help students understand algorithms better by designing computer games that visualize algorithms."
• Mathematical Impressions: Shell Games by George Hart @ simonsfoundation.org - "One-dimensional, two-state cellular automata produce a list of bits at discrete time steps, whose output, depending on the parameters, may be trivial or very complex. Surprisingly, this simple mechanism can be Turing complete — that is, capable of calculating anything that any computer can calculate. This video shows two artworks that were inspired by these automata."

Computer game design

• Amit’s Game Programming Information by Amit
  • See also Red Blob Games
• Games of the future will be developed by algorithms, not humans @ wired.co.uk
• Games By Angelina - A PhD research project making AI that can design, evaluate and develop entire videogames.
• How Shigero Miyamoto, legendary creator of Zelda and Mario Bros., designs a game