Об этом курсе: 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.
Автор: Калифорнийский институт искусств
Преподаватели: Théotime Vaillant, Instructor, Experimental Animation
School of Film/Video
| Основные сведения | Course 3 of 5 in the Game Design: Art and Concepts Specialization |
| Уровень | Beginner |
| Язык | English |
| Как пройти курс | Чтобы пройти курс, выполните все оцениваемые задания. |
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Программа курса
НЕДЕЛЯ 1
Introduction 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 видео, 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Видео: Course introduction
- Reading: About this course
- Видео: Properties and Rules
- Видео: Story, the vertical spine
- Reading: Causes and Consequences
- Видео: Making a game world
- Reading: Considering Game Worlds
- Reading: Example: Week 1 Assignment
Оцениваемый: What(ever) works
НЕДЕЛЯ 2
Do 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 видео, 2 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Видео: Don't create from the void
- Discussion Prompt: Finding Inspiration
- Видео: Aesthetics & Gameplay
- Видео: Clockworks
- Видео: Questions
- Видео: Back to the rulebook
- Видео: Make it yours
- Видео: Shuffle your ideas
- Reading: Strategies for shuffling your ideas
- Reading: Example: Week 2 Assignment
Оцениваемый: Brave New World
НЕДЕЛЯ 3
The 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 видео, 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Видео: Visualizing the game world
- Видео: Level Design
- Видео: Bordering the World
- Reading: The Bigger Picture
- Видео: The Garden
- Видео: Navigation and Time
- Reading: Two types of navigation
- Reading: Level design in local spaces
- Discussion Prompt: Tools of the Trade
- Видео: Moveset
- Видео: From point A to point B
- Видео: Linear vs. Non-Linear
- Видео: The Grey Box
- Reading: Example: Week 3 Assignment
Оцениваемый: Making Spaces
НЕДЕЛЯ 4
A 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 видео, 4 материалов для самостоятельного изучения
- Видео: What lives there?
- Видео: Anchoring the world down
- Видео: An Atmosphere
- Видео: Lighting is key
- Reading: In the Shadows
- Видео: Colors
- Reading: Color your world
- Видео: Final Round
- Reading: Example: Week 4 Assignment
- Reading: Course Credits
Оцениваемый: Bring Everything Together & Stir It Up
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Калифорнийский институт искусств
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.
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great!
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!
So nice.
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loved it, great resource material, and great teacher.