Game Design

     

- What you know about the topic before you search

Personally, I have had little experience in game design when I was in middle school. I made a short flash game about a little man running through a maze. I love game designing and I love games themselves; I've always played and liked games before and I always wanted to make a popular RPG game when I grow up. There are various programs to use to create a game and I'm not sure I remember the program that I used to make the game in middle school, thus I will search for it.

- What you wonder or questions you have about the topic

1. What game designing programs are best in quality?

2. What kind of games are the most simple to make?

3. Which game making companies are very famous for their work?

4. What kind of games are most popular to gamers?

- Links to where you found your most useful information
Famous Game Companies:

• You need to brainstorm about the characters, setting, and obstacles.

• You can always dream about something inside your head and it might come useful to you when you create a video game.

• Be inspired by movies and videos that you have watched (thus never copy)

• Think about all the different things the character can do, the sound track, what the enemies can do to players when they are hurt, etc.

• Try to have a story related to the game so a character can follow the story and provide the gamers with some entertainment.

• Always double check for bugs, glitches when creating games, as players might abuse them and make the game less fun for everyone else.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/

http://www.arena.net/

http://www.riotgames.com/

Useful Information about Game Designing:

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/designing-video-games.html

http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/411/game_design_an_introduction.php

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_113/1385-How-to-Become-a-Game-Designer

- Bullet list of things you learned about the topic

- A short summary of how this topic relates/connects to your life

This topic relates and connects to my life as I truly love to play video games and I really love everything related to video games. Without video games, life would just to plain old boring but video games provide you with entertainment. So, game designing has a true impact in my life as it always has been my dream to create a video game that everyone would love to play.

- Questions I still have

How long does it take to create a decent game?