class: center, middle # Creación de Videojuegos ### Game Design --- # The Best Designed Game of All Times? <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ROPTP0yyroA" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> --- class: center, middle # World Building --- class: center, middle # Star Wars <img src="/CI-2700/assets/img/starwars.png" width="100%"/> --- class: small # What's so great about Star Wars? * "It is a period of <b>civil war</b>. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil Galactic <b>Empire</b>. " * "*Tarkin*: The <b>Imperial Senate</b> will no longer be of any concern to us. I have just received word that the Emperor has dissolved the council permanently." * "*Leia*: The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the <b>more star systems</b> will slip through your fingers." * "*Vader*: A tremor in the Force. <b>The last time</b> I felt it was in the presence of <b>my old master.</b>" --- class: small # What's so great about Star Wars? * The story does not *need* these references * But they give the story *context* * And a *purpose* * They allow audiences to imagine their own story within the larger world --- class: small # What about Video Games? * There are Star Wars games ... * Skyrim: Dragons were created by one of the gods * Warcraft: Orcs & Humans (1994): Orcs come from <b>another world</b>, Draenor<br/>World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade (2007): Players can visit what's left of Draenor: Outland * Overwatch: "Long before she took up the alias "Sombra," Olivia Colomar was among the thousands of children who were left orphaned in the aftermath of the Omnic Crisis." * Stardew Valley: Pelican Town is located within the Ferngill Republic, at war with the Gotoro Empire across the Gem Sea --- # What are good worlds? * They are intuitive * Can be used to tell many stories * Are about wish/fantasy fulfillment * Allow discovery * Are different from the real world --- # Name a (well-known) world! * Intuitive? * Stories? * Wishes/Fantasies? * Discovery? * Not RL? --- class: center, middle # Game Design Challenge ### Let's Design a Board Game! --- # The Game * What's the central theme of the game? * Who are the players in the game? * What are the players competing for (or collaborating on)? * Which mechanics could that translate to? --- # Mechanics * Which resources are there? (turns, cards, moves, etc. also count) * How does one resource convert to another? (e.g. a player may spend one coin to move their meeple) * What do we need on the board? * What do players do?