Start creating your world. A game world is not just a backdrop for your game—be it minimal or detailed, contained or part of a much bigger universe, it provides the context for your player. Ultimately, a game world should feel alive and wholly unique to any player who will experience it.
In this course, we will explore game worlds in existing games and study the art and influences that inform their themes and styles. We will also investigate key components of environment and level design as well as strategies designers use to define gameplay or advance it. We’ll also look at navigation and the elements that make your world as real (or unreal) as you want it to be. A weekly challenge will prompt you to explore styles and inspirations for possible game worlds, and you’ll learn effective ways to communicate your ideas from concepts to presentation-worthy proofs of concept.
Этот курс входит в специализацию ''Специализация Game Design: Art and Concepts'
World Design for Video Games
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1Introduction to World Design
During this first week, we'll start with a brief overview of game worlds and game design. We’ll also examine environments and larger world-based concepts to see how games incorporate a macro-level view of how they progress. At the end of the week, a short assignment prompts you to examine, analyze and comment on games that marked or interested you in terms of their environment design.
4 videos (Total 9 min), 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 1 тест
4 видео
Properties and Rules2мин
Story, the vertical spine2мин
Making a game world1мин
4 материала для самостоятельного изучения
About this course5мин
Causes and Consequences3мин
Considering Game Worlds3мин
Example: Week 1 Assignment5мин
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2Do Your Research
Where do you start when designing a world? Where should you begin to look for sparking that creative impulse? This week we will be exploring ideas and presentation techniques for a game’s environment and world design. I encourage you to draw inspiration from other art practices, artists, video games or even your everyday surroundings. The assignment at the end of the week challenges you to present a proposal for a possible world through concept artwork for peer evaluation.
7 videos (Total 18 min), 2 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 1 тест
7 видео
Aesthetics & Gameplay3мин
Clockworks1мин
Questions3мин
Back to the rulebook2мин
Make it yours1мин
Shuffle your ideas1мин
2 материала для самостоятельного изучения
Strategies for shuffling your ideas1мин
Example: Week 2 Assignment8мин
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3The Way You Move
How do you move in a video game world? This week we’ll discuss fundamental components and concepts in world and level design. Naturally, these evolve as the gameplay progresses but there are specific strategies you can use to create the finer details in a game environment. At the end of the week, you are challenged to take the previous week’s visual research exercise and expand upon it, giving it shape and volume.
9 videos (Total 21 min), 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 1 тест
9 видео
Level Design2мин
Bordering the World1мин
The Garden3мин
Navigation and Time1мин
Moveset2мин
From point A to point B3мин
Linear vs. Non-Linear2мин
The Grey Box1мин
4 материала для самостоятельного изучения
The Bigger Picture8мин
Two types of navigation8мин
Level design in local spaces8мин
Example: Week 3 Assignment8мин
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4A Whole World
Bring your game world to life. In this final week, we’ll be putting down what will eventually define the look, ambience and atmosphere of your world, learning specifically how to convey a mood for a unique and engaging game environment. Go back to your assignment from Week 2 to pull from your inspirations and models. Build on your volumetric model from Week 3 and add details. Define the light, the color palette and the overall visual context of your game space.
6 videos (Total 17 min), 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения, 1 тест
6 видео
Anchoring the world down4мин
An Atmosphere1мин
Lighting is key3мин
Colors1мин
Final Round2мин
4 материала для самостоятельного изучения
In the Shadows8мин
Color your world5мин
Example: Week 4 Assignment8мин
Course Credits2мин
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83%
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автор: TT•Feb 7th 2018
The videos are nice and clear, and I love seeing examples for the homework, it really helped. I also loved reviewing my peers and having them review me, they had awesome ideas!
автор: PS•Jun 3rd 2016
Very nice curso, with very good details about how to create a very imaginative world design for your game! Really recomend to everyone that wants to create videogames!
Преподаватель
Théotime Vaillant
Instructor, Experimental AnimationSchool of Film/Video
О California Institute of the Arts
CalArts has earned an international reputation as the leading college of the visual and performing arts in the United States. Offering rigorous undergraduate and graduate degree programs through six schools—Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music, and Theater—CalArts has championed creative excellence, critical reflection, and the development of new forms and expressions.
О специализации ''Game Design: Art and Concepts'
Stemming from the principles of storytelling and design established in CalArts’ renowned Animation programs, this Specialization lays a primary foundation for experimentation and exploration of video game design, story, character development, and winning gameplay before programming begins. These four courses emphasize the self-reliance and personal expression of the gaming artist, and encourage you to take conceptual risks and develop new modes of expression and form through gaming. In the final Capstone Project, you’ll put your creative skills to work by generating an engaging game design document for a personal game project, outlining the conceptual, narrative and aesthetic elements of your game.
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